Artist’s Impression Shows New London Bridge Station Concourse

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London Bridge station drawing

This ethereal sketch is an artist’s impression of how the all-new concourse at London Bridge station will look.

Network Rail, who manage the station, revealed the image yesterday as they announced the winners of the two major design contracts that will see a substantial redevelopment of the area, including a completely new concourse and improved interchange between buses, trains, and Tube services, as well as integrating the station with its new neighbour, the Shard. In addition, the track layout into the station will be changed: a new viaduct above Borough Market is already under construction, and London Reconnections got some pictures during a visit last month.

As far as mock-ups go, this is an impressionistic effort, filled with shadow-figures strolling languidly through a hazy, open space, beneath an elegantly curved roof. Will it bear any relation to the finished product, which for all its architectural merits will inevitably be filled with discarded Burger King wrappers and hawkers flinging free newspapers into unwanting palms? Probably not.

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  • http://twitter.com/AstridKitti Astrid Christie

    Wow, jaded much?

  • Anonymous

    I like the way the architect has used a shade of grey that matches our menu bar.

  • Anonymous

    Hard to tell from one picture, but possibly implies that we’re loosing the vertical space the original scheme included, which is sad.

    http://londonreconnections.blogspot.com/2008/08/on-londons-other-london-bridge.html

    I do like that they have the same clocks and departure boards as St Pancras – would be nice to have a single standard again.

  • http://technocrank.com/ Crankietech

    Seems to be quite a bit of glare flying around there.

  • http://twitter.com/topdowntoedown Lewis Cooper

    Nice enough. Now imagine that space filled with 5000 tourists and other idiots milling around, stopping at the bottom of the escalators in rush hour, and otherwise being stupid in a public place… it’ll still be hell. Just hell with pretty signage.

  • Anonymous

    Found better info on the old scheme: http://www.motionarchitecture.com/londonbr.html

    Clearly its very different – we loose the height and the Gaudian ‘tree’ supports, replaced with straight colums.

    As the designers of the old scheme put it:

    “These ‘tree’ structures were a neat solution to carry the three levels of structure on a very tight footprint as well as allowing escalator links from concourse level up to individual platforms. However, to get passengers from street level to the concourse level, we needed a bank of 11 escalators, 2 MIP lifts, and 8m wide stairs; these no matter where you placed them tended to: a) ruin the architectural quality of the new through street, and b) form an uninspiring entrance to one of the most important stations on the Britain’s rail network. Suraj was asked to take part in a workshop to come up with solutions to this problem.”

  • GJ

    see the tpbennett web site for the final images of the 2000 planning consent scheme. http://www.tpbennett.com

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