The construction of the (Crossrail)
Elizabeth line is providing
London with a number of prime
opportunities for over-station
developments that will sit above the soonto
open stations and ticket halls.
Possibly the most prestigious of these is
currently being built above the Bond Street
station eastern ticket hall, where a large 1.3-
acre development has been commissioned
by Great Portland Estates and will provide
20,400m2 of premium office spaces, retail, a
restaurant and residential accommodation
all centred around a new public courtyard.
The project consists of four separate
buildings including 18 Hanover Square.
This is an eight-storey structure that sits
directly above the new Elizabeth line Bond
Street station eastern ticket hall and uses
the Crossrail facility’s concrete roof as its
first-floor slab.
From the ticket hall slab/roof, the steel
frame for the building rises up, while
also spanning a new ground floor retail
colonnade.
Approximately 1,850t of steel has been
erected to complete 18 Hanover Square, to
provide 11,700m2 of offices and 213m2 of
retail space.
The development’s other buildings
Mixed-use
18 Hanover Square
represents the scheme's
main element
16 NSC
June 19
A retained façade
along New Bond
Street fronts one of
the scheme's four
buildings
Steel is just the ticket for
over-station development
Structural steelwork has provided the required lightweight solution for a mixed-use scheme
that sits directly above an Elizabeth line ticket hall. Martin Cooper reports.
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