This new design plan for Flinders Street Station is a simulated landscape that unites diverse conditions into a single place. Retail, cafes, civic spaces and areas of nature and water are suddenly and improbably brought together into small, man-made cityscape, built on top of the currently existing station. It holds the promise of an almost absurd comprehensiveness and density: opposing activities that are normally thought of as separate entities can be done simultaneously all above the current train station. A new kind of nature is created—congested, compressed, contradictory—that seems to suit the pace of the city it serves.
