The Elizabeth Line (line-wide architecture)

London, United Kingdom, Europe

Completed · Transport · Metro / Regional Railway · Temperate · 2022

A new cross-London railway whose central tunnelled section runs through ten stations. Grimshaw led a 'line-wide' design that gives every station a shared architectural language while allowing each to respond to its locality. It won the 2024 RIBA Stirling Prize.

Innovation highlights

Standardised kit-of-parts across all stations
Sprayed steel-fibre-reinforced concrete tunnels
GFRC tunnel cladding shrink-wrapped to the lining
Step-free access network-wide

Innovations in the catalogue

Line-Wide Kit-of-Parts for Repeatable Station Components
Sprayed Fibre-Reinforced Concrete Tunnel Lining
GFRC Cladding Conformed to Tunnel Geometry
Network-Wide Step-Free Access

Client / Developer: Crossrail / Transport for London
Architect: Grimshaw with Maynard, Equation and AtkinsRéalis
Engineer: Arup; Mott MacDonald
Type: Metro / regional railway

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