Rafael Vinoly must be rueing the immutability of the law of reflection, responsible for the 'death ray' effect that plagued his Fenchurch Street tower in the City of London this summer. Luckily for Birmingham, London-based Alejandro Zaera-Polo Architects (formerly FOA) has integrated this fundamental physical law into its design for the reclad of New St Station, whose reflective stainless steel facade is taking shape in the city. AZPA project architect Charles Valla finds it hard to describe the nature of this reflective facade applique alone, because the total design approach for the reinvention of this 1960s concrete modernist station is much more than the sum of its parts. New St station is in some ways the de facto city centre, whose tracks and cuttings effectively divide it north/south. FOA, which won a competition to redesign the station in 2008, acknowledged this and proposed a multi-directional matrix of connectivity over the tracks - celebrated in a new 23m high central domed atrium space.
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机译：拉斐尔·维诺利（Rafael Vinoly）必须对反射定律的不变性感到ru惜，这是造成今年夏天困扰他伦敦市Fenchurch Street塔楼的“死亡射线”效应的原因。对于伯明翰而言，幸运的是，总部位于伦敦的Alejandro Zaera-Polo建筑师事务所（前身为FOA）已将这一基本物理定律纳入了New St Station卧铺的设计中，该建筑物的反光不锈钢立面正在城市中成型。 AZPA项目建筑师查尔斯·瓦拉（Charles Valla）发现很难单独描述这种反光立面贴花的性质，因为重塑1960年代混凝土现代派站台的总体设计方法远不只是其各个部分的总和。从某种意义上说，新街车站是事实上的市中心，其轨迹和cutting插有效地将其南北分开。 FOA在2008年赢得了重新设计该站的竞赛的殊荣，对此予以承认，并提出了在轨道上建立多方向连通性的矩阵-在一个新的23m高的中央圆顶中庭空间中庆祝。
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