INFRASTRUCTURE WORKBOOK

JOHN McASLAN + PARTNERS

 CONTENTS

4 Connectivity - the Key to Better Lives

“FROM THE TRANSFORMATION OF KING’S CROSS
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STATION TO MAJOR INTERNATIONAL WORKS IN MOSCOW 8 King’s Cross Station
AND DELHI, THE PRACTICE CREATES STRONG VISIONS TO 22 Central Station, Sydney
26 Crossrail Bond Street
UNLOCK COMPLEX URBAN CHALLENGES.” 36 Belfast Transport Hub
40 Sloane Street
42 Chicago Union Station
FANOS PANAYIDES, DIRECTOR, JOHN McASLAN + PARTNERS 44 Penn Station 33rd St Corridor
46 Metro North Railroad
48 Mumbai Stations
50 Varanasi Station
52 Doha Metro
54 Dalston Junction
56 Northern Line Extension
58 Nine Elms OSD
60 Camden Town Station
61 Holborn Station
62 Kosino Transport Hub
63 Anand Vihar Transport Hub
66 Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
68 Delhi Metro
70 Canning Town Station
72 Oxford Street Tram
74 Marble Arch
76 Piccadilly Interchange
78 Kelvin Link Bridge
80 Olympic Energy Centres
86 SecureStation
88 Oxford Road Corridor
90 Cuenca Tram

92 Timeline
94 End Matter
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CONNECTIVITY: THE KEY TO BETTER LIVES
In the twenty-first century we can no
longer think with certainty about orderly
divisions between categories such as
urban, suburban, and rural. More than
half the world’s people live in towns and
cities, and that will increase significantly,
year by year. The rate of urban growth in
countries such as China, India, Brazil,
and parts of Africa, is often astonishing.
The “pinch” between public, private,
and commercial or industrial space
will become more constrained and
challenging in terms of movement and
economic development.
The distribution of power also goes
hand in hand with road, rail, and other
kinds of infrastructure developments:
the Energy Centres on London’s 2012
Olympic site are an award-winning
example of good design that add
distinctive character to functional
buildings; and in Sloane Street, London,
the practice’s “green boulevard” proposal
is designed to give this famous street a
much more elegantly relaxed character.
The design of infrastructure projects
must be as innovative and future-proof
as possible. The practice’s early schemes
in the 1990s pursued this, and they
included the Brunel Award-winning
modernisation of Redhill Station, and the
architecturally adventurous scheme for
Manchester Piccadilly Interchange.
In the same period, the practice
was commissioned to deliver fast-track
designs for ten new stations on the Delhi
Metro, which were completed in time for
the city’s 2010 Commonwealth Games.
King’s Cross Station, London
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Varanasi Station, Varanasi
The ability to design major high-profile
infrastructure projects effectively began
with the multi-modal interchange at
Canning Town Jubilee Line Underground
station. These “headline” infrastructure
schemes now include the Anand Vihar
Transport Hub and the 19th century
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai,
a UNESCO World Heritage site, which is
India’s busiest railway station. In Moscow,
the forthcoming Kosino Transport Hub will
include significant mixed-use elements.
One of the practice’s most important
current projects is the new Crossrail
Bond Street station in London, and its
public realm thresholds, which will handle
230,000 passengers a day from 2018. In
addition, the practice’s Crossrail Urban
Integration Study clarifies the relationship
between the new station and heritage,
traffic and pedestrian connectivity in
London’s most important retail hotspot.
Schemes for two more commercial and
creative hotspots – London’s Oxford
Street, and Manchester’s Oxford Road
Corridor – featured proposals for high
tech tram systems, while the practice’s
most acclaimed infrastructure project to
date has been the award-winning £547m
modernisation, renovation, and extension
of London’s Grade I listed King’s Cross
rail terminal and multi-modal transport
hub – delivered in time for the start of
the 2012 London Olympics. The new
concourse has rightly been described as
the most innovative example of transport
architecture since Stansted Airport and
Anand Vihar Transport Hub, New Delhi, India
Belfast Transport Hub, Belfast
the Waterloo International Terminal in
the early 1990s and is acknowledged
as a gateway to London. The practice’s
expertise in transforming heritage
infrastructure projects has international
reach - Chicago’s Union Station is a case
in point, where the practice is exploring
proposals to significantly increase
capacity and unlock economic benefit
whilst preserving the station’s historic
elements. The practice is also proposing
improvements at another iconic station
in the US - the 33rd Street Concourse at
Penn Station in New York. In India, the
practice is developing concept studies
for Mumbai Station - a masterplan which
focuses on delivering ehanced capacity.
And in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the practice is
designing a scheme for the Metro system.
In Belfast, JMP’s Transport Hub will
create a fully integrated bus and railway
station on a 10ha site on the edge of the
city centre – a key stimulus to further
inner city regeneration.In Glasgow, the
practice’s proposal for Kelvin Link Bridge
Crossrail Bond Street Station, London
crossed the river to carry pedestrians to
and from the Glasgow University campus
and Kelvingrove Art Gallery. The practice’s
redevelopment masterplan for London’s
iconic Marble Arch is another relatively
modest scheme with the potential to
untangle apparently intractable surface
movement problems. The proposal seeks a
new relationship between the movement of
pedestrians and traffic around and across
this iconic site.
The projects in this Workbook
demonstrate that designing functionally
successful, award-winning infrastructure
projects is about a great deal more than
the pragmatic “grunt” of functionality. It
is increasingly about refining the image
of towns and cities by making travel and
movement much more pleasurable and
efficient.
Jay Merrick
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KING’S CROSS STATION

CAMDEN, LONDON
The transformation of King’s Cross Station
creates a remarkable dialogue between
Cubitt’s original 19th century station and
21st-century architecture. Opened to the
public in March 2012, in advance of the
2012 London Olympics, King’s Cross is
now an iconic architectural gateway to the
capital. The scheme has restored Grade I
listed historic fabric, and added the highly
innovative new Concourse. At 7,500 sqm,
it is three times the size of the original
concourse and has become the ‘beating
heart’ of this multi-modal transport hub,
linking St Pancras Station, Thameslink
services, London Underground, taxis
and bus services, and accommodating
up to 150,000 passengers daily through
a spacious and dynamic multi-modal
interchange.

Opposite: view of new concourse; top: mezzotint showing

cross-section of the original Train Shed (1852); above:
construction of the Metropolitan Line (1861) and
congestion in the former concourse; bottom left: site plan;
bottom right: aerial view during redevelopment of the
station, showing early stages of the regeneration of the
immediate context.
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Above: cross-sectional model of the station and London

Underground; right: cutaway visualisation of the station
and the new concourse, illustrating the project’s
constituent parts, seen from the north; below: new
concourse under construction; bottom: vast connecting
nodes for the diagrid structure of the concourse roof
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Main image: south-facing section drawing showing, from left,

the Eastern Range, the Main Train Shed vaults, the Western
Range and the new concourse, with London Underground’s
Northern Ticket Hall concourse beneath. Behind the new
concourse is the façade of the Great Northern Hotel, now
restored. Below: The practice designed a coherent ‘family’ of
wayfinding signage and information systems

Below and opposite, left to right: entrance, Eastern Range;

Main Train Shed, looking north; Clock Tower; Main Train
Shed, looking south; ticket hall; view from mezzanine; view
of new concourse roof; entrance to new concourse
from King’s Cross Square; Cubitt’s façade restored
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Opposite: atrium of restored Parcel Yard, now a successful

pub and restaurant; top left: Ticket Hall during restoration;
top right: Parcel Yard atrium before restoration; left:
restored Ticket Hall
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Above and right: restored Main Train Shed; top: views

of the Main Train Shed prior to restoration
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Opposite: entrance to restored Eastern Range; top:

central staircase, Eastern Range; left: mezzanine walkway,
Eastern Range
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Right: detail of the restored Clock Tower; above: Cubitt’s

façade revealed, 2013; opposite: King’s Cross Station
following redevelopment, 2013
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CENTRAL STATION
Left: exterior of Central Station in its
current state; below: proposed Metro Box
and new Northern Concourse; bottom:

SYDNEY view of proposed new Concourse

The world’s leading cities, Sydney among

them, are under extraordinary pressure
in terms of the development of transport
infrastructure and its relationship to urban
fabric. There is an urgent need to improve
the way in which people flow into and
around key transport hubs, generating
complex and often contradictory
situations.

The transformative renewal of Sydney’s

historic Central Station represents a key
element of the $20 billion Sydney Metro
redevelopment – currently Australia’s
most ambitious public transport project.
With 96 per cent of all Sydney train
services currently using Central Station,
the $1 billion contract will transform the
station’s capacity while celebrating the
important heritage elements of the 112-
year old station.

The transformation of Central Station

to accommodate a state-of-the-art
Metro interchange requires the design
of spatially and structurally significant
segments, and sophisticated, multi-
level passenger-flow strategies. But it
must also be designed with the future in
mind, so that the station can become the
centrepiece of further place-making and
regneration initiatives.
Central Station is the backbone of
Sydney’s public transport network, with
more than 250,000 people passing
through the station every day - a number
that is forecast to double in the next two
decades. The Central Walk concourse will
better connect customers to trains, buses
light rail and the new Sydney Metro,
witha 19-metre wide tunnel from
Chalmers Street, linking to new Metro
platforms, new, easy access points to
Sydney Trains platforms and for the first
time provision of escalators leading directly
to the suburban platforms.

The scheme - including the main

concourse, Central Walk (connecting
the Sydney Metro platforms to Chalmers
Street), the Northern Concourse
(interfacing between the new metro
and the existing station) and the Metro
box platforms - introduces dramatic
new architectural and engineering
elements, marking a step-change in the
station’s functional, urban and cultural
contribution to the city.

Above: two views of Central Station c.1910 (exterior

and Grand Concourse); right: view of the existing Grand
Concourse at Central Station
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The Metro insertion must accentuate
the key heritage qualities of the
existing architecture, introducing new,
architecturally inspiring elements that will
not rupture the fundamental character
of this fine Edwardian station. The clock
tower, the original canopied concourse
and the general architectural gravitas
remain iconic and any new interventions,
however, contemporaty in style, should
elevate the station’s unique historic status.
The craft and richness of stonework of the
existing building are reinterpreted to form
new textured sandstone walls leading
into the new Metro Box, referencing the
architecture of the historic precinct to
create an inspiring civic quality to the new
spaces within the Station.
Central Station’s new underground
Central Walk will be generous, distinctive
and memorable, allowing passengers to
orientate themselves intuitively through
uncluttered and beautifully designed
spaces, facilitating movement between
trains, buses, light rail and the new
Sydney Metro. The design also creates
a series of “urban rooms” – civic
scale spaces such as new volumetric
concourses that form part of the scheme’s
broad urban and civic approach.
The dramatic volumes and natural
light characterising the new Northern
Concourse create a clear relationship with
Walter Vernon’s architecture of the historic
station above. This Main Concourse
with a viually lightweight and clear span
canopy dramatically oversailing the space
between the Central Electric Building and
the original historic facade of the station,
would give the Station and specifically the
Metro an imposing ‘front door’.
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The new structure must dovetail
seamlessly with the bold, robust
architecture of the original building, in
order to give the station an entirely new
functional and experiential vibe. The
vibrant new spaces will allow 100,000
train and Metro passengers to flow every
hour through this new, inspiring and
highly efficient 21st-century transport
hub. The transformed Central Station will
act as a catalyst for Sydney’s civic and
economic renewal.
Above: proposed Eddie Avenue entrance
with Northern Concourse; opposite: two
views of the proposed new Northern
Concourse - spacious and naturally-lit
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CROSSRAIL BOND STREET

WESTMINSTER, LONDON
The practice is delivering Crossrail’s Bond
Street station. Consisting of two distinct
station elements at Davies Street and
Hanover Square, the scheme forms part
of Europe’s largest single construction
project. The new Bond Street Station
consists of two deep east-west platforms,
emerging at street level via two new ticket
halls south of Oxford Street. Connecting to
the existing London Underground station,
the new interchange will serve 230,000
people daily when complete in 2018. The
practice is also undertaking an urban
integration and landscaping study in
collaboration with the City of Westminster,
Grosvenor and Great Portland Estates, to
embed the station in its immediate and
wider context.

Right: urban integration study; below: platform

visualisations; opposite: ticket hall and escalator under
construction
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Left: view of Davies Street oversite development; above:

schematic superimposed onto wider context model,
illustrating both the Hanover Square (left) and Davies Street
(right) elements; opposite top: view of Davies Street ticket hall;
opposite bottom: internal elevations of the Davies Street ticket
hall and lower concourse
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Left: view of station box over Hanover Square, under construction; left
below: extract from BIM model; below: visualisation showing the ticket hall.
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Left: underground tunnel construction; below: ticket hall

construction and site visit from Her Majesty the Queen.
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BELFAST HUB
NORTHERN IRELAND
The Belfast Transport Hub is key to city
regeneration in Belfast. A new fully
integrated transport hub will replace
the existing bus and railway stations
on the ten hectare site at the edge of
the city centre and key in the ongoing
regeneration of the city. Due to the
success of public transport in Northern
Ireland over the past few decades, the
current bus and rail stations have reached
capacity. In addition, further growth is
predicted of 50% by 2040, prompting the
need to provide a new facility. Following
extensive consultations with the client,
it is proposed that the fully integrated
transport hub will include 26 bus stands,
including three alighting stands, and
eight rail platforms. The project also
includes a masterplan of the 10 ha site;
the proposed development providing
approximately 135,000sqm of mixed use
accommodation.

Opposite: aerial image indicating wider masterplan

Right top: view of masterplan link to Hub
Right middle: view of station square
Right bottom: view of station square
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Opposite: view of station concourse

Below: view of Hub entrance; wider masterplan
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SLOANE STREET
KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA, LONDON
John McAslan + Partners has been
appointed by Cadogan Estates to develop
a new urban design vision for the world
famous Sloane Street in the Royal
Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Although home to some of the most
exclusive fashion houses in the world,
the character and quality of the street
could be considerably enhanced. Our
work has investigated the wider network
of streets, through evidence based
analysis, and established strategies for
urban renewal, enhanced connectivity,
traffic management and public realm
enhancements.

Top: shopping map of central London, showing ‘nodes’

of activity, with Sloane Street; right: axonometric diagram
showing how the scheme proposes to unlock further
potential on this high profile street. The study assesses
existing land use, street furniture, accessibility, utilities,
movement patterns and landscape in order to understand
how these physical and functional conditions affect
the street’s economic, social and cultural character;
opposite bottom right: views of Sloane Street’s prestigious
retail amenities
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CHICAGO UNION STATION

CHICAGO
Chicago Union Station is a key
transportation facility and vital economic
driver for the City of Chicago and the
region and is served by both Amtrak
intercity passenger trains and Metra
commuter rail trains. CUS handles
over 300 trains per weekday carrying
approximately 120,000 arriving and
departing passengers, a level of
passenger traffic that would rank it in the
5 busiest stations in the United States of
America.

Chicago Union Station aims to address

the most immediate capacity, service
and safety issues within Chicago Union
Station and include Station Capacity
Expansion, Platform Capacity Expansion,
Track Capacity Expansion, Intermodal
Connection and Retail Improvements
John McAslan + Partners have been
commissioned to assist in the delivery
team to bring a proven track record in the
scope of work defined for the project and
importantly, in the successfully unlocking
wider economic benefits through
integrated urban development and station
potential.

Below: JMP proposal for enhanced public realm on South Canal Street
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PENN STATION 33RD STREET CORRIDOR

NEW YORK, U.S.A
The practice study into the proposed
improvements to the Pennsylvania
Station 33rd Street Concourse focusing
on improvements intended to bring
immediate relief by rationalizing the layout
of the existing concourses to create a
smooth, seamless, safe, and efficient
trip for LIRR and NYCT customers.
Wayfinding should be intuitive and
efficient to speed the transition between
railroad platform and subway platform
through modern dynamic and static
signage, harmonious architecture and
finishes, as well as including public art.
Opportunities to enhance the journey for
customers with disabilities should also be
identified.

The interface between the 33rd

Street Concourse and the 7th and 8th
Ave subway stations and the areas
immediately within the stations that
directly link to the platform also require
new wayfinding, lighting, and technology
upgrades as well.

Opposite: view of the proposed station concourse

improvements
Above: existing concourse
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METRO-NORTH RAILROAD
STATION ENHANCEMENTS, NYC
Existing Station Station Frontage Station Entrance Station Marker Car Park Metro North connects 122 stations over
384 miles serving counties in New York
and Connecticut linking with downtown
Manhattan.

The project relates to developing a pilot

station projects focusing on kiss and
ride, canopies, platform, lighting and if
affordable, over bridges and stairs with
a particular focus on creating a legible
entrance and amenity points. The two
stations which we will be focusing on are
Crestwood and White Plains within the
context of a study which also includes
Riverdale, Port Chester, Harlem 125th St
and Bronxville.

Opposite: proposed station development comparison

Below: view of the proposed new station square

Proposed Development
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MUMBAI STATIONS
MUMBAI, INDIA
Together with Mott MacDonald, the
practice are developing concept studies
for Mumbai Station Development project,
specifically relating to Mumbai Central
(BCT) and Lokmanya Tilak Terminus
(LTT) Stations in Mumbai, India.
Focusing on station redevelopment
and capacity enhancement for both
stations as well as a wider masterplan
study focusing on potential development
proposals adjoining the station, will
provide the funding requirements to
fund the necessary upgrade works to the
station.

Both stations require significant

remodelling and re-development to
deliver modern standards for station
operations as well passenger movement
and to accommodate the increasing
patronage numbers for stations across
India. The proposed station development
would act as a catalyst to regenerate the
local area and create distinctive local
neighbourhoods.

Opposite top: aerial view of new development and wider

masterplan for Mumbai Central
Opposite below: aerial view of new development and wider
masterplan for Kurla Station
Right top: view of sky garden for Kurla Station
Right bottom: view of entrance concourse for Mumbai
Central
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VARANASI STATION
VARANASI, INDIA
John McAslan + Partners together with
Mott MacDonald are delivering this proof
of concept proposal for Varanasi Junction
in Uttar Pradesh, India. The developed
scheme design will require a rigorous,
process-driven response that generates
appropriate innovations in strategic site
planning and architecture and whose
cultural, contextual, and landscaping
features will represent the Smart City
guidelines as well as deliver a 21st
Century infrastructure fit for this ancient,
vivid, growing city.
The key objective of this project is to fund
the rebuilding and upgrade of the station
as well as regenerating the local area
and providing a fitting front door for this
international city to reinforce its place as a
cultural, spiritual and heritage destination
as well as a city facing the future as a
world class 21st century dynamic and
progressive economic centre.

Opposite: view of mezzanine new station concourse

Below: aerial view of new development and wider
masterplan
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DOHA METRO
DOHA, QATAR
John McAslan + Partners is supporting the
design of six Green Line stations within the
$35 billion Doha Metro project by Qatar
Rail, including landscape and architectural
branding. This complex and ambitious
underground metro scheme is due to be
operational in 2019, with the Green Line
stations serving as a 30km-long corridor
connecting the centre of Doha to Education
City in the west.

Right: site plan showing metro line stations and

connections; below and opposite: photographs showing
the site under construction.
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DALSTON JUNCTION
HACKNEY, LONDON
The practice designed this major
residential development in Dalston, which
includes a new station and a public
square. The scheme comprises 309
apartments and forms a key component
of the East London Line extension linking
Hackney to the North with Croydon to
the South. The scheme has become the
pivot-point of a part of London that, until
a few years ago, had no widely-known
social or cultural cachet. The situation
is very different today, and this scheme
has played a central role in raising the
profile of Dalston as one of London’s most
fashionable cultural hot-spots.

Right: view of completed scheme; below left: view of

platform at Dalston Junction Station; below right: model
view; opposite above: façade detail; opposite below:
sections showing the connections between the over station
development and the transport links below
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NORTHERN LINE EXTENSION

SOUTHWARK, LAMBETH & WANDSWORTH, LONDON
The practice is at the heart of the
£1billion infrastructure investment project
to regenerate Nine Elms, creating 25,000
new jobs and 16,000 new homes. JMP is
developing the above-ground elements of
two new stations and their urban context.
These schemes include a significant over-
station development at Nine Elms. The
practice is working alongside Halcrow,
who are leading a technical team
designing the subsurface infrastructure,
and design work has been progressed on
the layout of the stations and shafts.

Above: view of new pedestrianised street at Nine Elms;

right: two new stations are being created at Nine Elms and
Battersea. Kennington Station is being upgraded and two
new ventilation shafts are being provided at Kennington
Park and Kennington Green
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NINE ELMS OSD

LONDON
John McAslan + Partners has been
appointed by TfL to develop a planning
application for a residential-led over
station development (OSD) at Nine
Elms Station and has assembled a
multi-disciplinary team that is currently
progressing development proposals,
which also include a masterplan for
the area encompassing adjacent
developments by both Barratt Homes
and Vinci St Modwen, together with a
significant new public square supported
by a retail offer.

The scheme will provide in excess of 300

units arranged as three buildings on a
site heavily constrained by the operational
requirements of the new station.
JMP’s design focuses on creating a
number of compact central cores with
units arranged around them, maximising
the opportunity for prime views and
increased values. We have ensured that
units on the north side of the building
plan are dual aspect, helping to achieve
best values and amenity for residents.
Stacking of units over all residential levels
avoids offsetting of services. This strategy
will help to minimise construction costs.
The efficiency of the layout and resultant
building form is fundamental to achieving
design quality within budget.

Left: diagram showing

proposed scheme
connections and integration
into urban fabric Nine Elms.
Right: Urban development
plan indicating new
proposed development area
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CAMDEN TOWN STATION
LONDON
Camden Town station is an interchange
station that serves two branches of the
Northern Line. Following consultation
with key stakeholders, John McAslan +
Partners has identified a costed strategy
to provide step-free access from street
level to all platforms and increase the
station capacity by providing a five storey
box beneath ground and a new single
storey above ground forming the new
second station ticket hall. There is also
an opportunity to develop a new
residential multi-development element
which is being explored by the practice.
Above: the station is V-shaped, with the entrance at the
apex. The High Barnet branch runs to the north and
east of the station, the Edgware branch to the north and
west. The practice is reviewing potential improvements,
including a new ticket hall and additional vertical capacity
together with step free access; below: artist’s view of a
regenerated Camden High Street with the new station
development.
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HOLBORN STATION
LONDON
JMP, with engineering partner Arup, has
been selected by Transport for London
to prepare redevelopment proposals for
Holborn Station – a £300m priority project
for London Underground.
To be realised by 2022, the project
focuses on congestion relief, capacity
enhancement and accessibility, as well
as public realm improvements and a
significant over-station development at the
very heart of the Bloomsbury/Holborn/St.
Giles InMidTown regeneration area.
Below: ground floor plan of the reconfigured
station; top right: visualisation of the proposed overground
station development; below right: artist’s view of proposed
station concourse
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KOSINO TRANSPORT HUB
MOSCOW, RUSSIA
The practice, along with its Russian
partner the Aurora Group, is developing
a number of major multi-modal transport
hubs in Moscow. As well as the Kosino
project, JMP is preparing schemes for
five other sites in Moscow: Novokosino,
Alma Atkinskaya, Kotelniki, Spartak and
Salarievo. These proposals form part of
the Russian Government’s modernisation
programme of major infrastructure
projects. Our preliminary multi-level
designs for Kosino include park-and-
ride facilities, car parking, metro, rail
and bus interchange, as well
as commercial, residential and
community elements.
Right: diagram showing key station connections;
below: view of the proposed new multi-modal transport
hub at Kosino
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ANAND VIHAR TRANSPORT HUB
NEW DELHI, INDIA
The 53ha Anand Vihar Transport
Hub will be a major new multi-modal
interchange hub for New Delhi, one
of a number of passenger terminals
targeted for redevelopment by The
Indian Ministry of Railways. These
projects will be delivered with private
sector partnership by leveraging real
estate development potential. Key to
the approach is the aspiration to deliver
high quality urban infrastructure and an
architecturally distinctive gateway to the
city. The practice’s scheme proposes the
creation of a layered interchange building
which will be oversailed by a large,
architecturally dramatic long span roof.
Right: location plan showing rationale for new hub;
below left: aerial view; below right: view of proposed new
interchange building; overleaf: model view of the project
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CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI TERMINUS

MUMBAI, INDIA
The Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus is a
UNESCO World Heritage site. Formerly
the Victoria Terminus, this grand Victorian
station dating from 1887 is a mixture of
the Indian Mughal and Victorian Italianate
Gothic. The station is also the busiest
railway terminus in India, handling some
650,000 passengers daily and also serves
as the headquarters for Central Railways
and the Indian Ministry of Railways.
The practice has recently completed a
masterplan study focusing on potential
development proposals adjoining the
station, proceeds from which will be used
to fund the necessary upgrade works to
the station.

Above: view showing current levels of passenger

congestion at the station; above right: visualisation of
the proposed development with station rotunda beyond;
right: view of current overcrowding on station platforms;
opposite below right: the historic terminus building, dating
from 1887
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DELHI METRO
NEW DELHI, INDIA
Working with engineers Pell Frischmann,
JMP designed 10 new stations for the
Delhi Metro Rail Corporation. Tunnelling
south on Line 2 from the city centre, near
Edwin Lutyens’ celebrated government
buildings on the Rajpath, the stations
are strategically sited south of the city
centre from Udyog Bhawan. They serve
a 15km section of the Metro that passes
through 500ha of commercial, residential
and institutional districts. This fast-track
commission was completed in time for the
Commonwealth Games in Delhi 2010. A
key challenge was to design architectural
and structural elements that could be
fabricated and erected within its historic
context.

Right: map showing the location of the ten stations along

the new Delhi Metro rail corridor; below: cross-sectional
model of one of the practice’s 10 stations with top-lit
concourses; opposite top left: typical station platform;
opposite top right: entry to Udyog Bhawan, one of the
completed stations; opposite below right: view of one of
the completed station platforms
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CANNING TOWN STATION

NEWHAM, LONDON
This scheme, which won a Civic Trust
Award in 2000, is part of London’s Jubilee
Line Extension network. It includes a
six-platform interchange serving London
Underground, the North London Line,
and Docklands Light Rail. These lines
are served by a three-level concrete
viaduct with lightweight steel and glass
enclosures, all of which were constructed
without disrupting daily DLR services.
There are passenger and operational
facilities and an Underground concourse
linking with the London Transport bus
station at ground level. This element
forms a distinctive gateway to the station
and interchange, and incorporates both
retail and passenger facilities.

Opposite and right: views of the completed station; below:

completed platform
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OXFORD STREET TRAM

WESTMINSTER, LONDON
The practice’s Oxford Street Tram study
examined how one of the world’s most
important shopping streets could be
improved by changing the mode and
pattern of surface transport within
transformed public realm conditions. We
proposed radical commercial and spatial
interventions for the 5.3ha of public
realm along Oxford Street, and at the
‘bookend’ public spaces at Marble Arch
and St Giles Circus. The key features of
our proposals incorporated a tram system,
pocket-parks, and improved pedestrian
movement. Other proposals included the
potential re-routing of certain bus routes,
and the creation of restful island-spaces
at many points along Oxford Street.

Opposite: night view, Oxford Circus; right: the proposed

scheme includes traffic calming measures and enhanced
public realm; below: masterplan
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MARBLE ARCH
WESTMINSTER, LONDON
The practice was commissioned
to prepare a masterplan for the
redevelopment of Marble Arch, one of the
principal gateways into the West End of
London. This landmark has a long history
as a gathering place for people, but its
iconic character has been significantly
compromised over time. We examined
the balance between pedestrian use of
the Marble Arch ‘island’ and the surface-
level traffic around it. The masterplan
proposed significant improvements
to the pedestrian environment, by
making movement easier and safer and,
importantly, by re-connecting the Arch
and Speaker’s Corner to the adjacent
public realm.

Opposite: model view, illustrating the enhanced setting

of Marbel Arch; top: view of Marble Arch, isolated by the
current traffic giratory system; above and right: sketches
of the proposed scheme
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PICCADILLY INTERCHANGE
MANCHESTER
John McAslan + Partners was
commissioned to develop design
proposals for a new bus interchange
at Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester. The
scheme included the redevelopment
of the existing bus station, integrating
it with the existing Metrolink city centre
tram service. Our design options,
which used modular components to
allow straightforward future extensions,
included individual steel ‘tree’ structures
designed to march through the site
carrying EFTE canopies. The design
creates architectural and spatial drama
cost-effectively by using a kit-of-parts
approach in the design of structural and
canopy elements.

Above: canopy detail; right: visualisation showing how

proposed ‘tree’ structures would provide a distinctive
visual identity to this important piece of urban grain;
opposite bottom: model of ‘tree’ structures; opposite
bottom far right: model view
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KELVIN LINK BRIDGE

GLASGOW
Following its award-winning selection in
an open international design competition,
John McAslan + Partners developed
the design of a new pedestrian route
across the River Kelvin in Glasgow’s
Kelvin Park. Inspired by the innovative
architecture and engineering for which
Glasgow is internationally acclaimed,
the design of the bridge features a
refined structure which crosses high
above the river, coming to rest on axis
with the entrances of the University and
Kelvingrove Art Galleries, Glasgow’s great
cultural and educational institutions. The
original design included a lower, stepped
footbridge which arcs to stabilise the
bridge at its mid-point.

Opposite: visualisation of the proposed new bridge; above

left: archive photograph of a cable car in an early 20th
century exposition in Kelvingrove Park, which inspired the
idea; above right: model view; top right: site plan; below:
section
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OLYMPIC ENERGY CENTRES

OLYMPIC PARK, LONDON
The two new Energy Centres for the
2012 London Olympic Games are
technically advanced and environmentally
considerate, with a bold industrial
aesthetic. With one of the Energy Centres
embedded in the Olympic Park (at
King’s Yard) and the other within the
local community, they are important
new landmarks in the urban mix –
architectural gateways on the eastern and
western boundaries of a huge tranche of
East London that is being regenerated.
Inspired by the form of earlier great
London power stations, the Energy
Centres make a robust contribution to the
developing urban character of the Lea
Valley as a whole.

Above: diagram locating both Energy Centres (highlighted

in orange) within the Olympic site; right: view of the King’s
Yard Energy Centre
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Top: drawing showing comparison in scale between

the Olympic Energy Centre and the Turbine Hall at Tate
Modern, London; above: view of the King’s Yard Olympic
Energy Centre; opposite top: stairway detail and flue tower;
opposite below: detailed drawing of façade construction;
opposite far right: detail of Corten and mesh cladding
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Opposite: external view of flue tower; right: internal view

looking up the 45-metre high flue tower; above: view of
retained building accommodating offices and a Visitor
Centre on the King’s Yard site
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SECURE STATION
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
JMP has been part of the SecureStation
team contracted by the European
Commission to run a three year R&D
project funded under the EU 7th
Framework Programme. The team
analysed past terrorist incidents, assessed
end-user requirements and conducted
computational and physical simulations
of the most probable terrorist attacks
in stations to understand their impact.
The results of these studies generated
a quantitative risk assessment
methodology and guidance to protect
against terrorist threats.

Identified behaviour patterns

Abnormal behaviour

Identified behaviour patterns

Abnormal behaviour

ATTACK

ATTACK

IED
IED PIH // CBR
PIH CBR Arson
Arson Attack on
Attack on
IED PIH / CBR Arson Attack on
Critical
Critical Systems
Systems
Critical Systems

EMERGENCY
PHASE
EMERGENCY
PHASE Search & Evacuation
Rescue
Timed Sabotage
VB-IED
VB-IED
VB-IED
Dispersion
Dispersion of
Dispersion of
of Timed IID
Timed IID
IID Sabotage
Sabotage Search & Evacuation
PIH Substances Rescue
PIH
PIH Substances
Substances

POST-EMERGENCY
PHASE
Top: hierarchical system of reference points and

POST-EMERGENCY
connections within the station; right: the most plausible
Home-made Cyber
Cyber Attack
Attack
Cyber Attack
threats to station security; opposite above: document
VB-IED
VB-IED Dirty Bomb
Dirty Bomb Home-made
Home-made PHASE Access to Equipment Retail &
VB-IED Dirty Bomb Petrol
Petrol Bomb
cover; opposite below: diagram showing function of
Petrol Bomb
Bomb platforms restoration Leisure
various emergency measures
Access to Equipment Retail &
platforms restoration Leisure
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OXFORD ROAD CORRIDOR

MANCHESTER
This ambitious masterplan for a 214ha
tranche of Manchester realigned a
number of smaller local regeneration
initiatives to provide the basis for a unified
urban development strategy based on
spatial and economic impact analyses. A
new creative media zone, housing, and
community business development will
activate threshold regeneration on the
eastern edge of the ORC. The High Street
would be revitalised, and a new science
park created, making Manchester the
knowledge capital of the North.

Opposite and above right: the store occupies a

pivotal site next to Chavasse Park, at the corner
of Paradise Street and Canning Place; above left:
model view
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CUENCA TRAM
CUENCA, ECUADOR
John McAslan + Partners and Mott
MacDonald have been advising the
historic city of Cuenca in Ecuador on how
best to develop the city’s tram project.
A World Heritage site with 16th-century
origins, Cuenca is one of South America’s
most advanced cities in terms of its public
transport network, a key element of which
is the proposed tram which will provide a
critical transport route running east-west
through the city.
In a parallel project, JMP is developing
proposals for Cuenca’s historic market
square, the Plaza San Francisco, which
will see its market function enhanced and
its intrusive vehicular network rerouted to
create a pedestrian environment.

Above: images of the city’s new tram being developed

by Alstom Transport. Image Courtesy: Alstom
Transport/Amaud Février Left: view of the historic
centre of Cuenca

Above – views of the historic centre of Cuenca; top: archive

photo of the Plaza San Francisco;
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PRE-2000 2003-2009 2010 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 –

Canning Town (1997) Piccadilly Interchange Delhi Metro King’s Cross Station Anand Vihar Transport Hub Dalston Junction Cuenca Tram Chicago Union Station Crossrail
London Manchester New Delhi, India London New Delhi, India London Cuenca, Ecuador Chicago London

Kelvin Link Bridge Northern Line Extension Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Camden Town Belfast Transport Hub Mumbai Stations
Glasgow, Scotland London Mumbai, India London Belfast, N. Ireland Mumbai, India

Marble Arch Kosino Transport Hub Sloane Street Holborn Station Varanasi Station
London Moscow, Russia London London Varanasi, India

Oxford Road Corridor Olympic Energy Centres SecureStation Metro-North Railroad

Manchester London European Commission Station Enhancements, NYC

Oxford Street Tram Doha Metro Penn Station 33rd St.

London Doha, Qatar Corridor, New York, U.S.A
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END MATTER

Canning Town Station Oxford Road Corridor Northern Line Extension Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus SecureStation Chicago Uniton Station
Client London Underground Ltd Client Manchester City Council Client Transport for London Client Indian Ministry of Railways Client European Commission Client Amtrak
Dates 1991 – 1997 Dates 2004 – 2007 Dates 2012 – ongoing Dates 2012 – ongoing Dates 2012 – 2014 Dates 2016 – ongoing
Area 11,500 Sqm Area 214 ha Area 5km long corridor Area 100 ha Area - Team John McAslan + Partners
Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners Arup
Troughton McAslan Tribal HCH Halcrow Isdefe, MTRS3 Solutions and services Altus Works
WSP Faber & Maunsell StudioDare Sloane Street University of Sheffield Muller + Muller
EC Harris Buro Happold Client Cadogan Estates Integral Consulting R&D
Corderoy Dates 2013 – ongoing D’Appolonia Varanasi Station
Oxford Street Tram Area 5 ha Consorcio Transporte Client DFID
Piccadilly Interchange Client Transport for London Team John McAslan + Partners Heuristics GmbH Dates 2017 – ongoing
Client Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Dates 2007 – 2008 Kosino Transport Hub Space Syntax Tecnalia Area 36 ha
Executive Area 2.2km long corridor, 5.3 ha Client Moscow Department of Transport ATM Team John McAslan + Partners
Dates 2002 – 2003 Team John McAslan + Partners Dates 2012 – ongoing Dalston Junction Interchange Mott MacDonald
Area 2,000 Sqm Colin Buchanan Area - Client Barratt East London Belfast Transport Hub
Team John McAslan + Partners Mott MacDonald Team John McAslan + Partners Transport for London Client Translink Mumbai Stations
Arup Aurora Group Development Agency and Dates 2014 – ongoing Client Tata
Davis Langdon & Everest London Borough of Hackney Area 10 ha Dates 2017 – ongoing
Delhi Metro Dates 2004 – 2014 Team John McAslan + Partners Team John McAslan + Partners
Client Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Olympic Energy Centres Area 33,000 Sqm Bovis Lend Lease Mott MacDonald
Kelvin Link Bridge Dates 2006 – 2010 Client Cofely East London Team John McAslan + Partners ARUP, JUNO, Ratan J Batliboi Consultants
Client Glasgow University Area 250 ha Dates 2007 – 2012 Goddard Manton Kennedy Fitzgerald
Dates 1999 – 2005 Team John McAslan + Partners Area 7,500 Sqm ATK II Penn Station 33rd Street Corridor
Area - Pell Frischmann, Mott MacDonald Team John McAslan + Partners Whitecode Design Associates Ltd Holborn Station Client MTA
Team John McAslan + Partners Cofely Barratt Homes Client Transport for London Dates 2017 – ongoing
Davis, Langdon & Everest AKT II Dates 2014 – ongoing Team John McAslan + Partners
Churchman Associates King’s Cross Station Careys Crossrail Bond Street Area - Aecom
Sutton Vane Associates Client Network Rail Parsons Brinckerhoff Client Crossrail Ltd Team John McAslan + Partners
Ron Haselden Dates 1998-2012 Buro Happold Dates 2009 – 2018 Arup, Costain
Metro North Railroad
Anthony Hunt Area 17,500 Sqm Arup Area 30,000 Sqm
Client MTA
Team John McAslan + Partners Solent Project Management Team John McAslan + Partners Cuenca Tram
Dates 2017 – ongoing
Tata Steel, Arup, Laing O’Rourke, Costain WSP Client Municipality of Cuenca
Team John McAslan + Partners
Marble Arch Carillion, Vinci Construction, Kier Rail Balfour Beatty Management Dates 2014 – ongoing
Aecom
Client Transport for London Seele, Mundy Roofing, Gormley, Swift Anand Vihar Transport Hub Corderoy Area -
Dates 2000 – 2005 Horsman, Osborne, Marsh Brothers Client Indian Railway Station Team John McAslan + Partners
Central Station, Sydney
Area 3.5 ha Engineering, Lee Warren, Development Corporation Mott MacDonald
Client Laing O’Rourke, for Transport for NSW
Team John McAslan + Partners David Bonnett Associates Dates 2013 – ongoing Camden Town Station
& Sydney Metro MTA
Gehl Architects Area 53 ha Client Transport for London
Dates 2018 – ongoing
Hyder Team John McAslan + Partners Dates 2014 – ongoing
Team John McAslan + Partners
Colin Buchanan & Partners Mott MacDonald Area -
Woods Bagot
Capita Symonds Team John McAslan + Partners
Arup, Costain, Corderoy
Credits
Essay Jay Merrick, architecture critic
Design Lisa Sjukur, April
`We create architecture which improves people’s lives. We
aim for an architecture which is rational and poetic, robust
and delightful; we tread carefully and build with conviction;
we tackle problems head on and think laterally; we
deconstruct the brief and let a design emerge from a close
examination of the pieces; we don’t necessarily take ‘no’
for an answer; we believe the power of architecture extends
much further than the dimensions of individual buildings;
we believe architecture is about making life better.
We believe that buildings should be underpinned by a
powerful idea; that the idea should be an intelligent and
logical response to functionality and a sense of place; and
the power of that idea should be embedded in the built
form. That way, clients get the buildings they need and
society gets the architecture it deserves.
JOHN McASLAN + PARTNERS
www.mcaslan.co.uk
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London NW1 3ER Edinburgh EH3 6QW
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We believe that the city is one of humanity’s most
impressive and precious cultural achievements. We also
believe that cities are more than a collection of buildings;
cities are about connections, transport, communications,
public spaces and joy. We believe in locating our buildings
firmly into their contexts - not as slavish repetition but
as a considered response to site, materiality, amenity,
scale and culture.
We don’t believe in the value of a house style; if we have
a house style it is one of process, not of form. We are
functionalists. We believe a good building is an expression
of a clear and rational diagram. We believe in the value
of research. We believe in contemporary design for a
changing world.’
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Sydney NSW 2000
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