At the Worshipful Company of Architects Installation Lunch this Thursday Phil Breese, WW+P Managing Partner, presented the first Weston Williamson + Partners Future of Transport Student Prize to Julia Arska and Remi Phillips-Hood Part II Graduates at Manchester School of Architects.
Detailed design approval has been granted and construction has started on the new Barking Riverside station designed by WW+P. The station is part of the London Overground extension being built by a joint venture of MorganSindall Construction & Infrastructure and VolkerFitzpatrick.
Ickenham underground station went step-free this month, bringing the total number of step-free stations on the London tube network to 84!
Weston Williamson + Partners has been working with Transport for London supporting their step-free access programme since 2016, first delivering feasibility design and now working with Osborne and Arcadis on the delivery of 7 sites through detailed design and construction.
New landscape designs revealed by HS2 show how an area around the River Cole in Warwickshire, identified as a Heritage Hotspot, could be transformed for local people to enjoy.
All four of the Project’s tunnel boring machines – Joan, Meg, Millie and Alice – have arrived at their final destination at the new Town Hall Station site, completing the twin 9km tunnels between the five new underground stations and two tunnel entrances, from Kensington to South Yarra.
The Arden Cross masterplan moved one step closer with a £50million commitment from the UK Government. This piece of central government funding, set to be matched by a regional contribution of £45million will provide the financial backing for this important project to go ahead.
Stimulus investment is a professional opportunity but also an opportunity to consider our civic responsibility in supporting shared and sustainable prosperity through infrastructure design and delivery. If public transport is essential infrastructure, in this moment of exacerbated inequity, can investment broaden to include affordable housing as essential infrastructure?
A multi-disciplinary team from Ryerson University, York University and University of Toronto are the first Canadian team to win the prestigious Urban Land Institute / Gerald D. Hines Student Design Competition. Supported by Weston Williamson + Partners Senior Associate Raymond Lee as Professional Advisor, the team comprising of Frances Grout-Brown, Leorah Klein, Yanlin Zhou, Ruotian Tan and Chenyi Xu took home the top prize out of 105 entries from 61 universities to win this year’s contest.
To say the effect of the pandemic on aviation has been significant is somewhat of an understatement. At the peak of the shutdown, global air traffic was down 94% against the same period in 2019 with about two thirds of the world’s commercial aircraft parked or in storage. The effect on London has been dramatic with Heathrow closing all its terminals apart from T2 and T5 and the airport’s controversial expansion plans now looking uncertain.
In this short film Founding Partner Chris Williamson examines the role the railways played in shaping the City of London beginning in 1836 with the new Greenwich to London Bridge line and taking a journey through this significant period of rail development.
One of the many irritations of getting older is observing ideas presented as new which you can remember from many years ago. This happens with increasing frequency. For me recent examples include RIBA reorganisation, Greta Thunberg at the UN (who else remembers Severn Cullis-Suzuki’s speech in 1992?) or the redistribution of opportunities in the UK. In each case I feel it must now surely be time for the talking to stop and greater progress to be made. In this article Chris revisits the 2005 SuperCity exhibition and examines it in relation to the “Northern Powerhouse”
The Bristol Temple Quarter and St Philip’s Marsh regeneration programme ambitions have been revealed in a new vision with sustainable homes, jobs, and a refurbished Bristol Temple Meads station at its heart.
Southwark Council has appointed the team of architects who will design plans to transform the Currys PC World site on Old Kent Road into hundreds of news homes, as part of one of London’s largest regeneration schemes.
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