Spring District Station
Sound Transit

Location

Bellevue , Washington

Owner

Sound Transit

Collaborators +

Project Size

13,365 square feet

Project Status

Completed

Services

Architecture, Planning, Urban Design

As part of the United States’ largest transit expansion to date, Sound Transit’s Link light rail is completing a 14-mile extension running east from downtown Seattle across Lake Washington to Mercer Island, Bellevue, and Redmond. The eight new stations connecting Bellevue and Redmond are complete, with the remaining two stations connecting the east side to Seattle slated to open in 2025. LMN Architects led design oversight for six of the ten stations on this extension as the primary architectural consultant to H-J-H (HNTB, Jacobs Engineering, Hatch Mott McDonald), and served as primary architectural designer on four stations.

Spring District Station anchors a new transit-oriented development at the northern end of the extension on a 58-acre former industrial site. Slated for significant mixed-use growth, the newly developed community will rely on the station for key connections to the greater region. Minimizing impact, the open-air station has below-grade platforms and carefully preserves a pedestrian connection across the property. At street level, the two entries emerge as light boxes on either end of the below-grade trackway, serving as beacons in the central public plaza above the station. At the platforms, cut-metal murals by local artist Louie Gong (Nooksack) ornament the tiled walls, enriching the civic experience with motifs bridging Coast Salish and Chinese visual traditions, reflecting the artist’s heritage. Horizontal “raceways” animate the platform walls via integrated LED lights that also house necessary service elements.