It is a long time since I have posted anything about Liverpool Street Station, partly out of a sense of relief that Herzog and de Meuron had withdrawn what always looked like a terrible plan – to build a tower block on top of a listed Victorian hotel.
Now I am pleased to see that John McAslan who did the development of King’s Cross in a very successful way has come up with a plan which looks obvious: to concentrate the new development above the glass train sheds in such a way as to retain, indeed enhance, the full scale of the sheds to public view. I just hope that Network Rail will see the clarity and logic of this approach and adopt it so as to avoid the versions of a towering inferno which have been proposed:-
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