City Rail Link — Te Waihorotiu and Maungawhau Stations
Auckland, New Zealand, Oceania
Under Construction · Transport · Underground Metro Stations · Temperate
New Zealand's largest infrastructure project: a 3.45-km twin-tunnel underground rail link up to 42 metres below Auckland city centre with three new underground stations. Each station encodes a specific Māori creation narrative through material, geometry and light — the first time this depth of indigenous cultural identity has been structurally embedded in a major Australasian transport project.
Innovation highlights
- Māori creation story narratives structurally embedded in station materials and geometry across all three stations
- 53 lava-cast glass triangles at Maungawhau mapping Auckland's volcanic field
- suspension rod ceiling at Te Waihorotiu referencing a historic underground water source
- up to 42 metres depth with engineered groundwater management through Auckland's complex volcanic geology
- first entirely underground railway in New Zealand
- Client / Developer
- City Rail Link Ltd / Auckland Council / NZ Government
- Architect
- Grimshaw + Jasmax
- Engineer
- WSP / AECOM
- Type
- Underground Metro Stations
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