St Pancras

摘要

If ever there was an argument against the expedient razing of fine old buildings, London's St Pancras Station is it. Back in the mid-1960s, when it was threatened with demolition, one thing was clear, even to those campaigning to save it: whatever the future of this great pair of conjoined buildings, that future was most unlikely to include rail travel. So what happens? Miraculously, a new express railway line is built to connect London with the Channel Tunnel, and the woefully underused St Pancras has the capacity and the flexibility to transform into a 21st century international terminal and transport interchange. Not to mention a sizeable shopping centre.