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Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
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Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
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Certified B Corporation — Adaptive Retrofit — Humanising Infrastructure — Making better places — Architecture — Public Realm — Spatial Strategy — Creative Reuse — Urban Transformation — Decarbonisation —
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Embankment Station— London

Client(s)

Transport for London

Collaborator(s)

Mott MacDonald / Delcore Fire Engineering

5th Studio has completed an Outcome Definition Study for Embankment station, mapping out a range of potential approaches to addressing forecast passenger demand increases stemming from the planned Bakerloo line extension.

Described by John Betjeman as “the most charming of all the Edwardian and neo-Georgian Renaissance stations”, Embankment station is a highly constrained interchange –set within the conservation context of Victoria Embankment, surrounded by dense urban development, bounded by the strategic road network and embedded within the rail viaduct of Charing Cross Station.

First opened in 1870 as a stop on the District Railway, the station later developed into an underground interchange, with the arrival of the Bakerloo (1906) and Northern lines (1914). In more recent years, the station has had restricted space for growth, while the station provides important links both to the West End and to the South Bank via Hungerford Bridge.

The planned upgrade and extension of the Bakerloo line is likely to catalyse an increase in usage of the line and a major shift in commuting patterns, supporting major growth in South London. The increased passenger capacity and numbers of trains per hour will lead to significant increases in passenger flows that could require substantial improvements to the station’s current layout.

Modernising and upgrading the station alongside a planned extension of the Bakerloo line could deliver a range of benefits: improving the passenger experience and ease of interchange, both internally and with river, bus and cycle services. The introduction of step-free access would widen transport inclusivity. Beyond the ticket barrier, the upgrading of Embankment station supports the improvement of the public realm on Strand–Aldwych, and around Covent Garden, as well as planned improvements to the riverside by Northbank BID.

5th Studio bring extensive public realm and urban design skills to bear in understanding how the public realm, surrounding structures, and commercial development can activate the station’s surroundings and create a world-class interchange environment. The work on the station joins a range of ambitious projects that aim to improve London’s transport infrastructure, from re-thinking Stratford Station to a new transport interchange at Vauxhall.

The work leads on from the production of the Covent Garden Public Realm Framework for Westminster City Council, as well as emergency recovery work in the West End during the Covid pandemic – establishing the rapid roll out of al fresco dining as part of business recovery post-lockdown in the pandemic across Soho and the West End.

"The New Charing Cross" Underground Electric Railways Company of London

Related

Stratford Station Vision — London

Creating a strong urban design framework to shape positive-change around Stratford's stations and to improve the experience of using the stations

Vauxhall Cross — London

Transformation of one of London's busiest gyratories to create a new transport interchange, bus station and improved public realm

Covent Garden Public Realm Framework — London

A vision and design principles to protect and improve the public realm of this thriving area of London's West End.

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