As part of the Balfour Beatty VINCI Design Joint Venture we have received Schedule 17 approval for a 150-metre section of viaduct carrying trains into Birmingham’s new Curzon Street Station, including a 25-metre-high truss which will create a new icon on the city’s skyline.
We are thrilled to announce that the Project HEART Consortium have been selected as one of the winners of the 3 year Innovate UK Future Flight Challenge Phase 3 programme. This £10m project will continue the world-leading development of technological, operational and sociological innovations started within Project HEART Phase 2 under the Future Flight programme.
Digital technology is rapidly changing the way that airports operate, streamlining efficiency and creating new possibilities for improving `end to end’ customer experience. By adopting a more human perspective, airports can spatially respond to the demands of the aging population, in particular passengers with dementia.
Planning permission and Listed Building Consent has been granted for our scheme at Fenchurch Street station, which will transform the Grade II listed building and its environs into a new destination for the City of London.
The Metro Tunnel Project in Melbourne has achieved a major milestone, with the project’s first tunnel breakthrough. Three massive machines called roadheaders – each weighing more than 100 tonnes – have met 300 metres underground after months of around the clock excavation.
WW+P has marked a decade of collaborative working at Paddington Station with the production of a new film about the flagship Paddington Integrated Project (PIP).
PIP brought together four separate projects: a new taxi facility as critical path enabling works for Paddington Crossrail; a higher capacity London Underground station to serve the reconfigured Circle Line; a new entrance from the north to all parts of the station serving demand from Paddington Basin, and the design and future-proofing of an over-site development.
The prototype for 29 freestanding totem signs has been unveiled outside Shudehill Interchange in Manchester city centre. The project is led and managed by WW+P and designed in collaboration with Spaceagency.
WW+P has been appointed to provide architectural services for Network Rail’s Croydon Area Remodelling Scheme (CARS). Part of a multi-disciplinary team including lead Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group and Costain, the contract worth around £4m, will include a diverse range of design services across multiple elements of the rail infrastructure.
WW+P has been appointed as lead architect and master planner for the Temple Quarter district of Bristol, which includes Bristol Temple Meads station, as part of a multi-disciplinary team led by Mott MacDonald.
A new image has been revealed for HS4Air, the proposal for a new high-speed railway around London that passes via both Gatwick and Heathrow Airports. The proposal will be submitted to the Department for Transport in response to a call for ideas within the rail sector.
The first panes of glass have been installed in the showpiece canopy at Paddington’s new Elizabeth line station. The 120 metre length structure designed by WW+P appears to float above the platforms 25 metres below ground. The steel grid holds 220 bespoke glass panels, each one weighing over a tonne.
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