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31 October 2022

Elizabeth Line’s Bond Street Station Opens In London

Design: John McAslan + Partners / Engineer: WSP

Location: Hanover Square and Davies Street, Central London, England, UK – in the Bond Street / Oxford Street area

Eastern Ticket Hall entrance on Hanover Square:

photo : John McAslan + Partners

Bond Street Station London Elizabeth Line Building

A new point of arrival into London’s West End designed by John McAslan + Partners with engineers WSP creates an uplifting passenger experience that celebrates the urban realm of Bond Street station.

Hanover Square view looking towards the Eastern Ticket Hall entrance:

photo : Paul Riddle

Two new spacious and refined colonnaded station entrances on Hanover Square and Davies Street designed by John McAslan + Partners and engineers WSP will accommodate nearly 140,000 Elizabeth line journeys daily through the newly opened Bond Street station, allowing direct access to the West End from outside the capital.

Bond Street station platform:

photo : John McAslan + Partners

A work of major and intricate transport infrastructure and engineering, the new Bond Street station connects the Elizabeth line below ground to the platforms of London Underground’s existing Central and Jubilee lines. Above ground, it is an integral part of a transformative urban redevelopment embracing new mixed-used buildings rising above the two new entrances on Hanover Square and Davies Street. The scheme also incorporates a new pedestrian square, Medici Courtyard, the first in Mayfair for over a century. Significant landscape improvements, meanwhile, have been made to Hanover Square.

Western Ticket Hall by John McAslan + Partners and Horizon Line artwork by Darren Almond, 2017. Bond Street station (Elizabeth line). Commissioned as part of The Crossrail Art Programme. Courtesy of the artist and White Cube:

photograph : GG Archard, 2022

The station entrances play a key role – practically and visually – in an updated Mayfair streetscape, responding to and heightening the character of their immediate surroundings. The focus for John McAslan + Partners has been to articulate the entrances as confident and clearly legible front doors to the new station while responding carefully to the existing grain and fabric of this long-established and high-end quarter of central London. The response needed close engagement with the client, the City of Westminster and other local stakeholders.

Western Ticket Hall on Davies Street:

photo : John McAslan + Partners

In terms of local elements informing the station entrance designs, John McAslan + Partners looked at existing materials and character of Hanover Square and Davies Street. The dominant building materials of Hanover Square – one of the West End’s first Georgian squares – have been Portland stone and brick as dominant materials. The Hanover Square Elizabeth Line entrance exhibits Georgian proportions and is faced in Portland stone. In contrast, the western entrance on Davies Street responds to a local vernacular of sandstone and red brick established by the period style of Victorian and Edwardian architecture. Spaces between columns along the stations’ colonnades are filled with glazed window panels or bronze- framed ventilation panels and bronze-hinged grille doors.

The high and spacious, coffered ceilinged interiors of both station buildings are concerned primarily with clarity and ease of movement. Grand floor-to-ceiling colonnade windows bring generous daylight into the ticket halls while generous views out allow passengers, especially those leaving the station, to orient themselves. Both entrances employ a high-quality, pared-back palette of materials emphasising their simple, elegant scale and proportions. Fluted bronze columns are self- conscious references to the classic Underground stations designed by Charles Holden in the 1930s.

Western Ticket Hall on Davies Street:

photo : John McAslan + Partners

Wayfinding through the new step-free stations is intuitive across terrazzo floors to the rounded portals leading via escalator shafts – with bronze panelling above for decoration and sound absorption – to the uncluttered standardised Elizabeth Line passageways and platforms 28-metres below ground.

Three installations by British artist Darren Almond, with the support of the White Cube gallery, Selfridges and the City of London have been sited permanently above and around the escalators of the Davies Street entrance as part of the Art programme of the Elizabeth Line. A meditation on the mechanics of time and space, ‘Horizon Line’, ‘Shadow Line’ and ‘Time Line’ are cast in bronze and aluminium in the same aesthetic as the embossed numberplates that once adorned British Railway locomotives.

Bond Street station material detailing ; View at platform level showing integration with common design elements for Crossrail by Grimshaw/Arup:

photos : John McAslan + Partners

John McAslan + Partners’ Head of Transport Colin Bennie says,

“Bond Street Station will be one of the busiest on the Elizabeth Line, providing a significant new gateway for those travelling to London’s West End. It was therefore important to create legible entrances while establishing a compelling narrative with the existing physical and cultural character of the area, referencing local material and form. We also wanted to lift the user experience through the use of daylight, generous linked spaces and the integration of artwork, maximising visibility and creating connections. We have achieved these ambitions with the expert and discreet engineering design of our partners WSP. “

Western Ticket Hall by John McAslan + Partners and Time Line artwork by Darren Almond, 2017. Bond Street station (Elizabeth line). Commissioned as part of The Crossrail Art Programme. Courtesy of the artist and White Cube:

photo : John McAslan + Partners

Bond Street Elizabeth Line Underground Station – Building Information

Team Credits:

Client: Crossrail / Transport for London
Architect: John McAslan + Partners
Multi-disciplinary Engineer: WSP
Contractor: Skanska/ Costain/ Engie
Contractor’s Consultants: Hawkins \ Brown and Arup
Artist: Darren Almond

Western Ticket Hall on Davies Street:

photograph : Transport for London

Escalators to Western Ticket Hall at Bond Street station:

photo : Transport for London

Bond Street Station aerial station diagram:

render : John McAslan + Partners

Eastern Ticket Hall – South facade Dering Yard:

drawing : John McAslan + Partners

John McAslan + Partners

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Location: Bond Street, Mayfair, west London, England, UK

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