This futuristic-feeling London Tube station is now Grade II-listed

Southwark Underground Station has been granted Grade II-listed standing by the Division for Tradition, Media and Sport, following recommendation from Historic England. This makes it the youngest of 72 London Underground stations on the Nationwide Heritage Record for England, having opened in 1999 as a part of the Jubilee line extension.

The itemizing recognises Southwark station’s architectural and historic significance, highlighting it as a hanging instance of late Twentieth-century design. Architect MacCormac Jamieson Prichard together with engineers Babtie and LG Mouchel & Companions designed the station, which was constructed between 1994 and 1999. Its dramatic look units it aside from the opposite 5 Jubilee line stations constructed on the identical time, regardless of utilizing the identical stainless-steel and polished concrete materials palette.

Inside, the station performs with pure and synthetic gentle, creating what lead architect Sir Richard MacCormac described as ‘alternating experiences of confinement and spatial enlargement’.

Key architectural options that contributed to Southwark station’s Grade II designation embrace the round ticket corridor, a drum-shaped entrance recalling the basic artwork deco stations of Charles Holden, resembling Southgate and Arnos Grove. Notable inside parts embrace the 630-panel blue glass display by British artist Alexander Beleschenko, impressed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s set design for Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and the distinctive steel-panelled tunnel on the decrease concourse.

Heritage Minister Baroness Twycross has mentioned that she is ‘thrilled’ that the station will now be protected, describing it as a ‘nice reminder of the extraordinary breadth of our nation’s architectural heritage’. Historic England’s co-chief executives hailed it as ‘a excessive level in an extended custom of fantastic design and engineering all through the Underground community’, whereas conservation teams together with Save Britain’s Heritage and The Twentieth Century Society have additionally welcomed the information.

The Grade II-status protects the station from redevelopment. That mentioned, Southwark council has granted planning permission for 2 high-rise blocks to be constructed above and alongside the station; TFL has promised that these will ‘sensitively’ full MacCormac Jamieson Prichard’s unique imaginative and prescient.