Today we are standing in the Paddington station box as we start our final phase of excavation down to the platform slab. What you can see behind me is one of our tunnel breaking points of which we have 4 within the Paddington station box. We have excavated down between the running tunnels to create a level platform and from there we use the breaking machines to actually break into the tunnels and remove the tunnel segments. Once we have broken out the tunnels within the moling hole we will then continue the excavation beneath the slab and eventually clear out the entire footprint of the Paddington station box. The…
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Crossrail Art Programme – Whitechapel station artwork announced
Hi, my name is Chantal Joffe and I’m a painter. Crossrail is putting art into some of the stations on the Elizabeth line and I’m working on the one for Whitechapel, which is a priviledge. My idea of a really nice way to spend a Sunday is to walk up to Whitechapel, Brick Lane. Working on the piece began by thinking about the neighbourhood and the people who live there. It’s a very beautiful area and very vivid and full of people and my daughter and I would come on a Sunday afternoon and I would sit around and look and think and paint pictures and draw. My piece is…
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Crossrail Art Programme: Heathrow funding major artwork at Paddington Crossrail station
We are building today one of the greatest infrastructure projects in Europe. When you’re building something as big as this you want to do something more. We were given the challenge of how to bring art to the Crossrail programme. We want to see art to be a prominent feature of all our main stations in the central section so that’s what the Culture Line is about, it’s an experience when you come on Crossrail that’s not just a railway journey it’s an experience of London, art and all the other things that go with it. I mean Paddington station is you know an iconic station, it’s a beautiful station,…
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Crossrail Art Programme: Farringdon station western ticket hall artwork announced
The concept behind the artwork was to make something that referenced the history of the site – the jewellers and the gem industry from Hatton Garden, but also some of the kind of iron work and silversmiths and stuff that worked in the area as well. With the western ticket hall the idea is a series of tumbling jewels if you like, that would kind of cascade down the diagonal panels by the escalators and then traverse right around the concourse and then come back up again. So it’s kind of like a journey of some gems or jewels I guess. As a passenger you would come down the escalator…
