CTA Belmont Station Canopy

Chicago

United States

With over 1.7 million users per year, Belmont Blue Line Bus Station is the seventh most traveled on the Blue Line and hosts the fifth busiest stop (for lines No. 77 and 80).

Owner: Chicago Transit Authority Design

Architect: Ross Barney Architects

Design Structural Engineer: Simpson Gumpertz & Heger

Design-Build Team: Walsh Construction with EXP

Steel Fabricator: King Fabrication

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CAST CONNEX offers design-build services for custom-cast steel nodes and components. We leverage steel casting manufacturing to offer our clients unparalleled opportunities for optimization and beauty in structural form.

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CAST CONNEX standardized connectors are available in a range of sizes to fit standard member profiles. These pre-engineered products are affordable enough to be used repetitively or as a one-off. Each connector is designed to simplify fabrication labor, especially in architecturally exposed applications.

With ridership expected to skyrocket as a result of the increasing number of residential developments emerging throughout North Avondale, the Chicago Transit Authority and the City of Chicago created a plan to fully revamp the overburdened L line.

Inspired by one of Chicago’s “Seven Lost Wonders”, the Olsen Waterfall, the station is animated with the dynamic form that displays both its function and aesthetic on a rainy day. Beautifully designed by Ross Barney Architects, the structure "puts Avondale architecturally on the map," said Mayor Rahm Emanuel at the renewed station’s groundbreaking.

Cast Connex engineered and supplied three, four-ton custom cast steel nodes that integrate seamlessly with, and support the entirety of, the dramatically cantilevered canopy’s steel framing.