https://www.dezeen.com/2025/07/15/eurostar-terminal-of-the-future-unveiled-in-amsterdam/
Superimpose Architecture and ZJA Architects & Engineers have opened a Eurostar UK terminal at Amsterdam’s central train station, designed to honour the terminus’s original features by 19th-century Rijksmuseum architect Pierre Cuypers.
The Eurostar project replaced a former terminal on platform 15 at Amsterdam Centraal, the Dutch city’s main station, and is four times the size of the previous one.
Rotterdam-based Superimpose Architecture and local studio ZJA Architects & Engineers designed the mostly subterranean terminal to connect train passengers between Amsterdam and London.
“This ‘terminal of the future’ defines a new era for cross-border rail traffic, and brings together various time periods, technologies, aesthetics, and efficiency,” said Superimpose Architecture.
Set within the former Amstelpassage – one of five north-south tunnels at the station – the terminal features a city-facing main entrance that leads to passport controls and border force facilities finished in a minimalist interior design with curved ceilings.
The ceilings were chosen in a nod to the station’s barrel vaults, originally created in 1889 by Cuypers, who also designed Amsterdam’s nearby Rijksmuseum art gallery.
“The interior connects past and future,” explained Superimpose Architecture architect Ruben Bergambagt.
Past these official checkpoints is a brightly-lit, open-plan waiting area characterised by green-hued terrazzo floors and “floating” backlit ceilings.
Visuals of moving clouds were projected onto the ceiling panels to reference both Dutch and British landscape paintings from the Golden Age, and acknowledge train travel between the two countries.