The practice has been commissioned to deliver three high-profile infrastructure projects across the capital – the redevelopment of King’s Cross Station, the Energy Centres that serve the Olympic site and the design of the new Crossrail station at New Bond Street.
The transformation of King's Cross station represents a compelling piece of place-making for London. The show-piece is the Western Concourse - Europe’s largest single span station structure and the heart of the development - but the overall project is far more complex: an extraordinary, collaborative effort that has delivered an internationally significant transport interchange, fit for the 21st century and beyond. We are very proud of our role as lead architects and master-planners of the King's Cross redevelopment, and it's immensely satisfying to see the project delivered on time, ready for the capital's celebration of the London Olympics later this year.
The new Energy Centres for the 2012 London Olympics site champion power generation as an integral presence across two East London communities - vital pieces of utilities infrastructure for the Olympic and Paralympic Games and the ensuing Legacy. The practice’s response has been distinctive in both form and function – a strong 21st-century industrial aesthetic.
The practice is also designing Crossrail's Bond Street Station, creating a new interchange that will serve 230,000 people a day when it completes in 2017. We have responded to this enormously challenging project (an integral part of what is currently Europe's largest construction project) with a design that provides connections to the existing London Underground Station while also delivering deep east-west platforms which emerge at street level via two new ticket halls.
John McAslan, Chairman
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