LIVERPOOL STREET

Elegant and timeless: The new eastern ticket hall at Broadgate

A NEW GATEWAY TO THE CITY

Liverpool Street is one of nine major new The western ticket hall at Moorgate is at stations on the Elizabeth line and will have street level and accessed through an angular two ticket halls – one at Broadgate and the portal en­trance, framed by bold blue coloured glass. Glass panels and acoustic panels made other at Moorgate. The station will provide FUN FACTS from perforated enamelled steel will be used an interchange with London Underground • Liverpool Street has the shortest on walls, while terrazzo will be used for the and National Rail services. escalator across the Elizabeth line floors. central stations, at 18.5 metres long;

Stretching from Moorgate in the west to it will take passengers from street New forecourts and plazas around each Broadgate in the east, the Elizabeth line level down into the Broadgate ticket entrance create pedestrian friendly, ticket halls are connected by two mined hall accessible spaces with wider pavements platforms. • The station is 34 metres deep; and allow clear pedestrian flows in and out the deepest of the Elizabeth line of the station. Fully accessible ticket halls provide direct central stations, with 6 lifts and

interchange with the Northern, Central, 15 escalators and a total area In addition to the station improvements, Metropolitan, Circle and Hammersmith & of 22,677 square metres City lines, as well as , Crossrail has been working with the City of and National Rail services to East Anglia London to deliver public realm improvements including Stansted and Southend airports. to the area around the station. FACTS & FIGURES A unified architectural design inside the An over-site development will sit above the • Step-free from street to train ticket halls is driven by the desire to Moorgate ticket hall. ‘Manifold’ by British • 567,000 tonnes of excavated material max­imise height in these constrained spaces. artist Conrad Shawcross will be a bronze • 238 metre passenger platform length A shallow, folded ceiling plane formed by sculpture positioned outside the entrance. • 124,000 passengers predicted per day ribbed pre-cast concrete panels breaks the on the Elizabeth line at Liverpool St. perception of the low flat ceilings to create a Outside the Broadgate ticket hall, a new • Interchange: Central, Circle, greater sense of space, scale and movement. public artwork will be provided at street-level Hammer­smith & City, Metropolitan, The grooved, angled ceilings has been seen courtesy of the imagination of Japanese Northern, Overground, National Rail by some to reflect the 'city pinstripe' often artist Yayoi Kusama. Her work ‘Infinite including trains to Stansted and seen in the suits of City workers. A subtle Accumulation’ is made up of a series of Southend airports sparkle of mica in the fibre-reinforced white steel spheres supported by sinuous, curving concrete will glow with indirect lighting. metal rods. DESIGN & BUILD The entrance into the eastern ticket hall at • Station architect: Wilkinson Eyre Broadgate is through a striking, five • Engineer: Mott MacDonald me­tre high glazed canopy located in an • Main Contractor: Laing O’Rouke open pedestrian plaza. Natural light will filter • Urban realm designs: Burns & Nice/ below ground during the day, while at night URS the canopy acts as a lantern with artificial • Oversite development partner: Aviva lighting from inside shining out of the glazed Investors entrance to illuminate the streetscape. • BREEAM rating: Very Good FROM BURIAL GROUNDS TO ROMAN SUBURBS LIVERPOOL STREET Crossrail undertook one of the most extensive archaeological programmes in the UK. At Liverpool Street, Crossrail archaeologists uncovered layers of London’s history down to the remains of Roman London.

There are 2,000 years of history buried beneath Liverpool Street including the foundations of railway station; the former Bedlam burial ground; marsh; a Roman road and the , one of London’s lost rivers.

In 1569, the Bedlam burial ground was established outside the City walls to ease the growing overcrowding of City cemeteries. More than 10,000 bodies were buried in the new cemetery and Crossrail archaeologists unearthed over 3,300 during their excavation.

MAKING A LITTLE POLKA DOTS AND MAJOR SPACE GO A LONG WAY THIRD: THE STORY OF TWO Nestled in one of the City’s leading financial The box dig was 65 metres long, 25 metres centres, surrounded by a continually evolving wide and 20 metres deep and within that VERY SPECIAL SCULPTURES dense urban landscape, the design for space the station structure has been built. A final flourish is given to Liverpool Street Liver­pool Street station makes the most station by two distinctive pieces of art which of what little space is available to build a Concrete piles support the foundations will been installed outside the ticket halls. massive piece of infrastructure. of the box with internal walls providing additional strength for the reinforced Construction of platform tunnels underway For the western ticket hall, or Moorgate end, The physical constraints to building a new concrete box structure. The roof comprises artist Conrad Shawcross has designed the station at Liverpool Street were considera- both precast architectural roof planks and tall and elegant ‘Manifold (Major Third) 5:4’ ble. Contractor Laing O’Rourke had to build a roof capping slab at a depth of 2.8 metres sculpture. the station in an area already crowded with in places. shops and office blocks above ground and This three-dimensional, tree-like bronze below had to contend with a maze of sewers, The Moorgate ticket hall includes a 175 metre creation is based on a visualisation of the utilities, existing Tube lines and the former long link tunnel to the Northern line. The sound waves generated by the third chord in Post Office Railway. two ticket halls are connected by a central the harmonic spectrum, also known as the concourse running under ‘major third’. In addition, layers of the city’s history had to along with platforms that are over 200 be removed and protected before much of metres long. The platforms at Liverpool Shawcross mapped the sound by using a the work could get underway, most notably Street have been built by modular machine based on a Victorian harmonograph over 3,300 skeletons from the Bedlam burial construction. and the shape it gave him, of a gradually site uncovered during the initial exca­vations diminishing, vibrating chord turning from at Broadgate, as well as thousands of The construction of Moorgate shaft was loops into a straight line, gives the spiralling artefacts dating back to Roman times. un­dertaken using a combination of form to this striking piece of work. diaphragm walls and piles. The shaft was The contractors also had to work alongside excavated top down with a series of ring At the eastern end, in Broadgate, another the operational railway at Liverpool Street beams and lining walls being installed at piece of work rises from the ground outside station, surrounded by multiple various stages with internal propping. the adjacent ticket hall. Here the design stakeholders, including residents and Once the base slab was installed the springs from the imagination of Japanese businesses. This meant implementing noise, propping was removed enabling the artist Yayoi Kusama who is famous for her vibration & dust restrictions at the site. internal reinforced concrete walls and use of polka dots in her creations. tunnels connetions to be formed. To support construction of Liverpool Street At Liverpool Street her work ‘Infinite station, a temporary 42 metre deep access Once the physical structure had been largely Accumulation’ is made up of a series of steel shaft was constructed in Finsbury Circus so completed, the focus of the project switched spheres supported by sinuous, curving metal that the platform tunnels could be dug at to the construction of all the me­chanical, rods. the same time as the accesses down to the electrical and public health services platforms were being constructed from the associated with the station. Both are likely to become landmarks for this ticket hall sites. part of London for years to come. It has been a complicated project, but the The Broadgate ticket hall and escalator box re­sulting station will provide a crucial are in Liverpool Street and include a link transport interchange in the heart of the corridor to the Tube station and National Rail. City for years to come. The distinctive 'pinstripe' roof at Broadgate