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Transforming King's Cross
Jay Merrick
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Description for Transforming King's Cross
Hardcover. Transforming King's Cross presents the most significant infrastructure project in Britain in a quarter of a century. It features essays by such leading architectural and planning commentators as Sir Peter Hall and Edwin Heathcote and is profusely illustrated with archival images, plans, models, and dramatic construction shots. Editor(s): Merrick, Jay. Num Pages: 160 pages, 165 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; AMB; AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 206 x 24. Weight in Grams: 864.
The reinvention of London's Grade I-listed King's Cross station by Network Rail, architectural practice John McAslan + Partners and engineers Arup is among Europe's most ambitious infrastructure projects. It has seen more than the restoration and modernization of the historic fabric of Lewis Cubitt's original double-barrelled train shed of 1852, in itself a masterpiece of rational design: the vast new semicircular Western Concourse, with its dramatic glass-and-steel canopy, creates at King's Cross one of Britain's most iconic examples of transport architecture. This fascinating book tells the complete story of the transformation of the station, a transport hub that is projected ... Read more
The reinvention of London's Grade I-listed King's Cross station by Network Rail, architectural practice John McAslan + Partners and engineers Arup is among Europe's most ambitious infrastructure projects. It has seen more than the restoration and modernization of the historic fabric of Lewis Cubitt's original double-barrelled train shed of 1852, in itself a masterpiece of rational design: the vast new semicircular Western Concourse, with its dramatic glass-and-steel canopy, creates at King's Cross one of Britain's most iconic examples of transport architecture. This fascinating book tells the complete story of the transformation of the station, a transport hub that is projected ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Merrell Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781858945873
SKU
V9781858945873
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Ref
99-50
About Jay Merrick
JAY MERRICK is architecture critic of The Independent newspaper. He writes regularly on architecture and art for such publications as Blueprint, Art Review, Architects' Journal, and New Statesman, and has contributed texts to numerous monographs on leading architectural practices.
Reviews for Transforming King's Cross
'A meticulously detailed account, generously illustrated with plans and work-in-progress photographs ... Highly recommended.' - UNDERGROUND NEWS