ARTIC
Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC) provides rail, bus, taxi and other services for daily commuters, visitors and leisure travelers. The station, designed by the global architecture firm HOK, opened in 2014, replacing a nearby depot and train platforms used by Amtrak and Metrolink. The building’s entrance is a 120-foot-tall glass wall. The tubular steel-framed 67,880-square-foot building has a compound curved shell that is covered with a 200,000-square-foot ETFE roof system. The roof system allows diffuse sunlight to illuminate a major portion of the building’s interior during the day. At night, the structure can be illuminated in any color with the 1,354 energy-efficient lights glowing through the air-filled plastic pillows which make up the arched roof.
Anaheim, Orange County
Photographer: Andrew Schmidt
Photographer: John Bare