The Distinctive Designs of Railway Station Canopy Roofs
2023年8月24日 · Known as daggerboards, these timber slats feature on many Victorian railway station buildings and form a distinctive design. Around a third of more than one thousand station canopy roofs are Grade II listed, according to the Railway Heritage Trust.
Heritage-led regeneration: learning from St Pancras - Arup
The station was originally built in 1868 to the designs of the Midland Railway’s engineer William Barlow, whose mighty iron roof, arching unobstructed across the train shed, was once the largest free-spanning structure in the world.
Establishing the diverse iconog-raphy that must develop for decoration of railway stations is a part of an extensive study to showcase cultural heritage with creativity. City marketing has grown into an established field of research and an academic subdiscipline.
Stations and Associated Buildings - Rail Heritage
Standard designs were the basis of railway station construction in the period 1872-1945. Most station buildings had a simple rectangular form, with either a pitched or gable roof, and had little architectural decoration.
Turning Heritage Railway Architecture into an Infrastructure for ...
2024年1月5日 · After a comparative analysis of five case studies, the paper proposes a methodology for defining adaptive reuse design scenarios for disused elevated railways and the underlying arches. As a result, such infrastructures become opportunities for sustainable urban regeneration to increase resilience, resource efficiency and circularity.
Design of a Railway Station: Creative Expression of Cultural Heritage …
2021年4月27日 · Establishing the diverse iconography that must develop for decoration of railway stations is a part of an extensive study to showcase cultural heritage with creativity. City marketing has grown into an established field of research and an academic subdiscipline.
Beautiful Train Stations Around the World | Architectural Digest
2022年8月1日 · From the spectacular Gothic Revival look of London’s St. Pancras International to the Art Deco and Spanish Colonial styles of John and Donald Parkinson’s Union Station in Los Angeles, the...
King's Cross Station | John McAslan - Partners
A key feature of this widely acclaimed multi-phase project is the structurally dramatic wave-form roof over the new Western Concourse, part of which lies over the King’s Cross/St Pancras Underground station concourse. Design development, involving Arup, required regular consultations with more than 25 stakeholders and numerous statutory bodies.
Birmingham Curzon Street Station: A 21st Century Station Roof
2020年10月12日 · The BCS roof design seeks to achieve a modern interpretation of the traditional 19 th century iron and glass train sheds with overarching roof canopy, using innovative design methods to produce a highly efficient structural form.
10 Great English Railway Stations - The Historic England Blog
2014年12月4日 · With the help of engineer Robert Stephenson, Dobson also designed the enormous trainshed, which comprises three arched glass roofs built in a curve. It was the first true iron-and-glass vault on a giant scale, and the ancestor of other great city station trainsheds. 3. Windsor and Eton Riverside, Berkshire.
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