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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