Photo: Santiago Calatrava
February, 2026- In Mons, Belgium, Santiago Calatrava Architects & Engineers designed a new multimodal railway station and its surrounding infrastructure. Identical canopies of steel and glass spread at either end of Gare de Mons, connecting the leafy residential district to its north and the historic city center to its south. Inside the 65,000-square-foot terminal— built with 5,500 tons of steel by Metal Yapi, an engineering and construction firm— Calatrava devised the station’s Galerie de la Reine, a skylit plaza inspired by the glazed arcades of Brussels’s Les Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert. The project was completed in 2025.
