The new vision for the railway complex focuses on two goals: restoring function and amplifying beauty. The existing station becomes a centre for the project, but the historic character is maintained with an expansion below grade surrounding two sunken courts. As the grade around the main station is raised, the need for exterior stairs is eliminated, creating a new accessible ground plan from the station to the Stoties Square. Additions on either side of the station provide access to the bridge concourse with combination of stairs, escalators, and elevators. The station itself is opened up to connect the varies levels and create and series of interior volumes fitting a central station for the city of Vilnius.

The historical context and sloped topography undermine simple solutions.  We started by creating a roof that maintained a friendly pedestrian scale, then took advantage of the topography by keeping the terminal level from the northern entrance.  The solution presented two opportunities, a market space connecting the bus terminal to the rail station and a new roofscape that increases park space in the city.  One activates the urban context, and the other the ecological, melding nicely into our overall urban framework plan.

The approach for the Naujininkai Centre implements the larger urban ideas for the master plan with four distinct features.  An active street frontage with a courtyard open to the street and a long permeable porch.  Two tall structures provide an urban landmark for bridge access across to the rest of the city.  Framed between two large landscape parks is an open plaza that leads to the main entrance to the train concourse and a proposed hotel and retail program interior to the building.  At the concourse level, shops open to the ring bridgeway, providing circulation around the station complex.  The concrete podium supports the wood superstructure.