Rogers raises fresh doubts over quality of Crossrail station designs

摘要

Richard Rogers has renewed his criticism of the £15 billion Crossrail project following the news that an architect designing more than a dozen Crossrail stations is to be replaced with another firm. Earlier this month, AJ revealed that Pascall+Watson is to take over from Bennetts Associates on 14 stations in west London. The firm will work for Taylor Woodrow under a design a build contract on delivery of the stations, with Bennetts retained in a 'design review role'. Rogers, who has previously warned that Crossrail would fail to live up to the country's 'great railway heritage', said he was concerned by the project's lack of architectural continuity and the onus on suburban local authorities to improve the quality of stations. He said: 'London has a great heritage of beautiful railway and tube stations. It is critical that Crossrail and its architects and advisers continue with this great tradition, so that they create buildings that enhance their locations, rather than blighting them. I am concerned that the current process won't achieve this.