Everyone at Weston Williamson + Partners is extremely proud to see our two Elizabeth Line stations at Paddington and Woolwich opening to the public. It has been a privilege to be part of London’s largest infrastructure project in decades, and it will be fascinating to see how these hugely significant projects are received by passengers and the general public to whom they now belong.
We are delighted to announce a number of promotions in our UK and Canada Studios in recognition of contribution to projects, our studios and exemplar service and support to our clients and collaborators.
A major redevelopment of Hartlepool Station is on track after securing £12m of government funding.
The station's redundant second platform will be brought back into use and a new footbridge and lifts installed. Work is due to begin later this year with the new platform to be open for when the Tall Ships regatta is held in the town in June 2023.
Join Carlotta Jansen on March 31st as she shares insights from our work for Southwark Council on the Bells Garden Estate. This NLA webinar explores projects that work together with the community to create meaningful new places.
We are pleased to announce that Weston Williamson + Partners has today joined Egis – one of the world’s leading consulting, engineering and operating companies.
Join Rob Naybour, Founding Partner, and Raffaela Rospo, Senior Associate from Weston Williamson + Partners to learn more about how the station has been designed as a bright and easy to navigate space, with design elements inspired by the historic Brunel and Wyatt mainline station.
This week marks the 15th annual celebration of apprenticeships. In the architecture profession apprenticeships are a new way of studying and one we are proud to have been part of from the beginning.
The Innovation for Inclusive Cities award recognises projects that offer innovation and originality in understanding and proposing theory or design for inclusive and sustainable cities at different scales. It is open to all students on the University of Westminster MA Architecture 1 year course 2020/21.
Balsall Common Viaduct is a Key Design Element located just outside the built-up part of Balsall Common. It is a hugely challenging structure, with implications for its community and the landscape, and a number of significant constraints.
A new section of park designed to help Londoners reconnect with the River Thames has been given the green light in east London.
As part of work to build the new super sewer in east London, King Edward Memorial Park (KEMP) will be extended by eight per cent, with new areas allowing visitors to get closer to the River Thames.
A major milestone was reached at Arden Station with the final segment of the station entrance arches landing. The 15 arches, lined with over 100,000 hand laid bricks, comprising a total of 45 segments, are now in place.
The station entrance arch design is grand in scale and reflects Arden’s rich industrial history. The choice of brick is evocative of a past era at Arden where bricks were once manufactured.
The design for the Metro Tunnel stations is a collaboration between Hassell, Weston Williamson + Partners, and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners as part of the CYP Design & Construction joint venture (Lendlease, John Holland and Bouygues Construction Australia).
Bruichladdich Distillery has secured £2.65m of funding from the Green Distilleries Competition to decarbonise their distillation process by 2025. The funding, from the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial strategy Net Zero Innovation Portfolio, will allow Bruichladdich and their energy partner Protium to install innovation hydrogen combustion technology to heat the stills, removing a major contributor to the distillery’s overall carbon emissions.
Baking Riverside is a brand new destination and sweet place to live, work and visit all conceived by Network Rail and Weston Williamson + Partners! This riverside community contains a train station, public square and housing ready to be used by hundreds and thousands of commuters each day.
WW+P achieved a double planning consent in November for our latest projects in Southwark Council’s New Homes programme. As a Southwark-based studio we are proud to have been responsible for the design of ten projects across the borough. Together these schemes will contribute 373 homes towards the Council’s target of 11,000 new homes by 2043. 246 of these homes are currently under construction with the remainder out to tender.
Two of WW+P’s projects have been featured in the NLA’s latest research paper “Local London: Post-pandemic recovery”. The paper investigates London’s flexibility and adaptability, looking ahead at how high streets and town centre are changing to integrate a new mix of uses, enhance public realm and improve infrastructure.
The Public consultation for the Ebbsfleet Central masterplan is underway. This is a significant milestone for the project following Ebbsfleet Development Corporation’s acquisition of the land in October 2019, and signals the first steps in the process of delivering Ebbsfleet Central.
As the UK begins its hosting of the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, our thoughts have turned to how we, as architects can address the climate change emergency through our work.
On Tuesday 19 October Senior Associate Raffaela Rospo joined the latest PiP Transport and Infrastructure Architecture Webinar to talk about our work on Paddington Elizabeth Line station.
We are delighted to announce that Founding Partner Chris Williamson will be joining the New London Architecture Expert Panel for Transport & Infrastructure.
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