Infrastructure

From large-scale public transportation hubs, motorways, bridges, and tunnels to (underground) parking facilities and small-scale pedestrian and cycling bridges to wildlife crossings. A significant portion of our work involves creating and enhancing connections for both fast and slow traffic, where we make more room for people, animals, and greenery.

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Zuidasdok, Amsterdam

Where the city is bursting at the seams

As befits any major urban expansion, plans for the area around the Zuidas in Amsterdam are ambitious in the extreme. The aim is to…

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Amsterdam Central Station, Amsterdam

More space in the Railway Cathedral

Buildings too can have family ties. Amsterdam Central Station is the everyday, practical little sister of the grand and art-minded lady…

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Extended Waal bridge, Nijmegen

Making room for the river

Near the city of Nijmegen the river Waal takes a tight turn, which in the past caused flooding at the Lower City’s quays. Honoring the fact…

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Albert Cuyp underwater parking garage, Amsterdam

Parking underneath a canal

The neighbourhood De Pijp in Amsterdam was built during the last decades of the nineteenth century and was not designed to accommodate a…

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Beatrixlaan lightrailstation, The Hague

The fishnet stocking

To improve accessibility by public transport to the Beatrixkwartier in The Hague, connectivity with the RandstadRail network was needed. In…

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Lightrailstation, The Hague

Parametrically designed eye-catcher

With the number of passengers increasing significantly in the coming years, a separate lightrailstation, a design by the architectural…

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Elevated Lightrail System, South Korea

Innovative transport system improves public space

In the fall of 2018 the architectural studio ZJA welcomed a delegation of South Korean researchers, engineers and contractors that the…

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N206 Tjalmaweg, Katwijk - Leiden

Green road with Roman past

The provincial road N206 stretches from Leiden to the coast, cutting through the open landscape of the former military airbase Valkenburg…

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Metro station and pedestrian tunnel Wilhelminaplein, Rotterdam

Sensory experience at great depth

In the early nineties of the previous century the city of Rotterdam developed what is known by the locals as the “Kop van Zuid”. The…

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Bicycle bridge, crossing the A201, Brussels

A network of bicycle connections

The motorway A201, leading from Brussels’ inner-city ring road to Zaventem Airport is always busy, fulfilling a vital function within the…

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Bicycle parking Leidseplein, Amsterdam

Parking garage for a city of bicycles

Approximately forty percent of all traffic in Amsterdam consists of cyclists. Sheer horror to imagine the chaos if all these people were…

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Wintrack pylons

Technology in slim silhouette

They are all over the world, those steel giants, made up of triangles, their two pairs of outstretched arms hovering over the landscape

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Parking garage Kustwerk Katwijk, Katwijk

Coastal reinforcement with underground parking

Awards Winner: German Design Award 2017, IPI Award of Excellence 2017, BNA Dutch Best Building of the year award 2016, Prix d'Excellence…

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Oosterweelconnection Right Bank, Antwerp

The Ring and the city

The objective of the major reconstruction of the Antwerp Ring Road is to close the ring and roof it over as much as possible, in order to…

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GeoDuct, circular viaduct

Building with local earth

Along with Dura Vermeer, IV-Infra, Ploegam, GeoTec Solutions and HUESKER, ZJA took part in a venture aimed at creating a viaduct that…

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Theunis bridge, Merksem

A new bridge in Merksem - Deurne

Hovering like a bird of prey high above the city of Antwerp you would see the glistening Schelde River, slowly meandering from the…

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