The beloved Elizabeth Line has been shortlisted for a design award alongside some severely swanky London landmarks.
It has aircon, on-train Wi-Fi, and again when the Lizzy line opened, you may even get some nifty purple tote baggage.
However would you name it an architectural masterpiece? I’m not so positive…
But that’s precisely what is going on proper now because the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) revealed its shortlist for the 2024 London Award.
For this award, the whole lot of the Elizabeth Line has been nominated. Because of this the rail line has been formally recognised as certainly one of the capital’s finest new buildings.
Nonetheless, particular stationsalsogot their time to shine, as Abbey Wooden, Paddington, Tottenham Courtroom Street and Woolwich stations additionally made the shortlist as separate RIBA nominees.
But it surely’s actually a jarring addition when you think about the truth that its amongst real masterpieces just like the revamped Nationwide Portrait Gallery and Battersea Energy Station’s second part.
And in case you had been questioning, it truly will get much more shocking: the Elizabeth Line appears to have racked up a fairly spectacular variety of awards within the brief time it’s been round.
Thus far, it has received the LUX Award for Industrial and Transport, a World Structure Pageant Award, a Constructing Design Award, a Civic Belief Award, a Civic Belief Particular Transport + Infrastructure Award.
It’s additionally been shortlisted for the WAN City Design Award and Public Constructing Architect of the 12 months on the Constructing Design Awards.
The road opened in Might 2022 at a price of practically £19 billion – roughly 4 years late and 4 billion over finances.
So, I assume you may say that the Elizabeth Line may be thought-about architectural royalty.
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However one station served by the Elizabeth Line couldn’t be farther from royalty if it tried — and that’s Studying.
London Underground publicizes new traces
This awards nod isn’t the one TFL information leaving us in a tailspin — Mayor of London Sadiq Khan additionally introduced six new names for the Overground: the Mildmay Line, Suffragette Line, Liberty Line, Lioness Line, Weaver Line, and Windrush Line.
Reportedly, these traces are designed to make the Overground simpler to navigate…
Based on On Time Trains’ newest rankings, Studying station is ranked as having a ‘dire efficiency.’ That’s as a result of solely 29% of trains run on time there, whereas practically one in 5 of its trains working 10 or extra minutes late up to now yr. After which 5% of trains didn’t present up in any respect.
Studying can be served by Nice Western Railway, South Western Railway and CrossCountry trains operators.
Within the final three months of 2023 alone, the 08:20 service to London Paddington arrived inside 10 minutes of the timetable barely 50% of the time.
So it’s not one of the best space to maneuver to should you’re planning on usually commuting to work from London.
The RIBA London Awards 2024 shortlist
- Abbey Wooden Station by Fereday Pollard Architects
- Artist Studio by VATRAA Structure
- All Saints by EPR Architects
- Battersea Energy Station Part Two by WilkinsonEyre
- Bradbury Works by [Y/N] Studio
- Brent Cross City Customer Pavilion by Moxon Architects
- Bromley Outdated City Corridor by Cartwright Pickard
- Camden Market Cover by vPPR Architects for LabTech
- Chowdhury Stroll by Al-Jawad Pike
- Cork Home by Polysmiths
- Nook Fold Home by Whittaker Parsons
- Courtyard Housing by Edward Williams Architects
- Dover Courtroom Property by Pollard Thomas Edwards
- Dukes Meadow Footbridge by Moxon Architects
- Dulwich Home by Proctor & Shaw
- Embassy of the Slovak Republic by BD London
- Ex-Council Home Transformation by VATRAA Structure
- Fish Island Village by Haworth Tompkins, Lyndon Goode Architects, Pitman Tozer Architects and Bureau de Change
- Francis Holland Faculty Home by IID Architects
- Hampstead Home by Coppin Dockray
- Hendon Waterside Part 4, Block H1 by Makower Architects
- Highgate Home by Emil Eve Architects
- Holland Park Backyard Home by David Cash Architects
- King’s Cross Masterplan by Allies and Morrison and Porphyrios Associates
- Leighton Home by BDP
- Love Stroll II by Knox Bhavan Architects
- Low Power Home by Structure for London
- LSBU Hub WilkinsonEyre
- Montacute Yards by Allford Corridor Monaghan Morris
- Nationwide Portrait Gallery by Jamie Fobert Architects and Purcell
- Oasis Academy Silvertown, by Rivington Road Studio
- Olympic Method & Olympic Steps by Dixon Jones and vPPR Architects
- Orwell Home by Bell Phillips
- Oxford Street by Coffey Architects
- Paddington Elizabeth Line Station by Weston Williamson + Companions
- Peckham Home by Surman Weston
- Pitzhanger Hub by Jo Townshend Architects
- Rotherhithe Major Faculty by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
- Royal Academy of Dance by Takero Shimazaki Architects
- Sambrook’s Brewery, RAM Quarter by Roger Mears Architects LLP
- Shakespeare Tower by Takero Shimazaki Architects
- Six Columns by 31/44 Architects
- Somerset Street Lined Courts: All England Garden Tennis Membership by Hopkins Architects
- St Andrew’s Holborn by DaeWha Kang Design
- St John’s Waterloo by Eric Parry Architects
- Mary’s Walthamstow by Matthew Lloyd Architects
- Michael’s, Fulwell by Malcolm Fryer Architects
- Sunday Mills by Assael Structure
- Sycamore Home by Jonathan Wilson RIBA
- Taper Home by Merrett Houmøller Architects, All & Nxthing & Rosebank Landscaping
- Approach by Buckley Grey Yeoman
- Thames Christian Faculty & Battersea Chapel by Henley Halebrown
- The Africa Centre by Freehaus
- The Arbour by Boehm Lynas Architects and GS8
- The Artists Residence by Gregory Phillips Architects
- The Black & White Constructing by Waugh Thistleton Architects
- The Division Retailer Studios by Squire & Companions
- The Elizabeth Line by Grimshaw, Maynard Design, Equation and Atkins
- The Gilbert & George Centre by SIRS Architects
- The Studying Tree Nursery by Delve Architects
- The Parcels Constructing by Grafton Architects
- The Tannery by Coffey Architects
- The Tree Home by Bell Phillips
- The Rowe by Allford Corridor Monaghan Morris
- Tori Ann Stroll by Al-Jawad Pike
- Tottenham Courtroom Street Elizabeth Line station by HawkinsBrown
- Unity Place by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects, Gort Scott, RM_A Architects
- Urbanest Metropolis by APT London and Hopkins Architects
- Verna, Acton Gardens by GRID Architects and Countryside Partnerships
- White Home Faculty by vPPR Architects
- White Patio Home by Pashenko Works
- Woolwich Elizabeth Line Station by Weston Williamson + Companions
- 67 Southwark Road by Allies and Morrison
- 10 Lewis Cubitt Sq. by Allford Corridor Monaghan Morris
- 22 Handyside Road by Coffey Architects
- 98-100 De Beauvoir Street by Henley Halebrown
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