New King's Cross concourse set to open
The new King's Cross concourse. Photo by Hufton and Crow
Source: © Hufton and CrowBoris Johnson to officially open John McAslan’s design
John McAslan and Partners’ western concourse at London’s King’s Cross station is due to be opened today by the capital’s mayor Boris Johnson in advance of its opening to passengers next Monday.
The project replaces the 1972 southern concourse which will be demolished later this year to make way for a new public square designed by Stanton Williams.
The scheme has its origins in McAslan and Partners’ appointment to undertake a safety upgrade at the station in 1997 – a project which took on a more ambitious scope when London won the right to host the 2012 Olympic games.
The new concourse represents the largest phase of a nine phase transformation of the station, the overall cost of which is £547 million.
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Norman would have done a better dome.
And £547 million makes the £800+ million St Pancras look good value.
I think it's beautiful.
I think is Stunning, well done to JMP
this looks great. no external shots tho...i wonder why..
It's not easy creating a structure so elegant especially in light of how regulations on station design have changed in light of the recent 'war on terror', particularly regarding steelwork sizing and detailing. Shame but true.
So hats off to McAslan for a great vision but also to Vinci, Kier, et al in realising what I'm sure will have been a tough project.
"Norman would have done a better dome" lol true, british libary + german libary. but then patrik schumacher Would be complaining about the dome not having parametric variations transcoded into radically different conditions of ribbing, of gridding, of dense networking, perhaps engendering a phase change at a certain threshold. Here all elements are different but they want to appear the same so perhaps Patrik would have done the better dome.
Brunelleschi might have done a better dome, if this was a dome. Actually, it's an asymmetric hyperboloid parabosphere.
"an asymmetric hyperboloid parabosphere ?" Nice!!! I wonder if that means dome like structure? probably not, We should be more competent,precise and profoundly more accurate with our terminologies in communicating about certain formations, I will put that in the Manifesto - and perhaps formations could improve via digital diverse terminologies of ever increasing variation of forms, being communicated more accurately. perhaps Mr.Price would be happy with that. I agree profoundly Mr. Price the epitome of the dome belongs to the Italian renaissance era we should not engage with these primvative uninformed rigid basic geometries in the 21st century.