Sitting below a five-storey mixed-use development known as Crossrail Place, the new Canary Wharf station helps connect this key business district to the City of London, the West End, and Heathrow. At the same time, it acts as a bridge between two communities - the Canary Wharf Estate and Poplar to the north. The journey to the Elizabeth line is a simple one: two promenade level entranceways each have four escalators and a lift which connects to the ticket hall. From the ticket hall, a further nine escalators and two lifts enable access to the over 240 metre-long platforms. Glass-protected large openings in the floor between the ticket hall and platform help guide customers where they need to go.
The journey from the train to the street is one of dark to light, with darker colours on the platform leading to lighter materials in the ticket hall and daylight from the entranceways. The colour yellow is used as an intuitive wayfinding measure within the station - you’ll notice it on all the vertical movement elements such as lifts and escalators.
Join Michael Gore, Associate Principal at Adamson Associates, to learn more about some of the challenges of building in a dock, how the building has been designed with a nautical reference, and how the station helps guide you to where you need to go.
Learn more about the Elizabeth line’s seven design principles, and explore the other new stations between Paddington and Abbey Wood here: [ Ссылка ]
Video released in 2022
