| The client asked Michael Hopkins
& Partners to design a new Underground station at Westminister for the
Jubilee Line Extension. The scheme incorporates a new ticket hall, new District
and Circle line level, Jubilee Line platforms at lower levels and a large
escalator 'box' interchange between levels. The District and Circle
lines had to remain substantially unaltered and continue in operation throughout
the construction period.
The design of the new station is interrelated with Portcullis House, the
new parliamentary building on the site above ground.
The design expresses the massive scale of the structure, exposing the rough
faces of the concrete diaphragm walls of the box. The lightweight steel
structures of the escalator enclosures scissor through the space. |
