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BUILDING PROJECTS


CROSSRAIL STATION PADDINGTON


Travelling light


In creating a new Crossrail station at Paddington, Weston Williamson + Partners managed to achieve a high degree of openness, bringing natural light to platforms. As architect Rob Naybour explains to Sébastien Reed, this was not the only reason that this project is unusual in the infrastructure sector


project”, Crossrail has seen the excavation of nearly 120 kilometres of tunnel through London, linking west to east from Reading to Shenfield. The development has added 10 new stations across London, as well as numerous refurbishments inside and outside the capital.


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For the first time in UK major rail projects history, the entire set of designs for the new stations were developed concurrently out of a Crossrail office on Greenwich peninsula. With leading UK practices such as Atkins, Allies & Morrison, Foster + Partners, Grimshaw, and Hawkins Brown working on the line’s architecture, inter-practice collaboration was integral to the design process.


The functional benefits of connecting the new Elizabeth line with international air travel, national mainline rail, and other London transport services made Paddington an attractive candidate for the Crossrail upgrade, despite the inevitable difficulties of creating a new station on the site.


“The adjacency of Brunel’s Grade I listed 1854 station posed great challenges”, says founding partner Rob Naybour of project architects Weston Williamson + Partners (WW+P) – one of the UK’s most respected practices working in infrastructure. WW+P’s previous rail commissions include extensions to the Docklands Light Railway (DLR), London Bridge’s Jubilee line underground station, and various masterplans including for Paddington itself.


ransport for London’s (TfL) latest mass transit project, and hailed as “Europe’s largest infrastructure


This saw the practice working on the original station, providing a concourse adjacent to Paddington Basin, access to the Hammersmith & City line via a new underground station, plus enhanced taxi facilities.


Gathering a wealth of contextual and practical knowledge of the original station and the surrounding area gave WW+P the edge when it came to competing for the leading design spot on integrating the new Crossrail connections. However, Naybour admits “it’s been a long journey” – his work on the station


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UPLIFTING


A gap in the station’s roof, covered by the canopy, houses escalators and a pair of glass lifts


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