Country: United Kingdom
Key Area: Buildings
Services: Architecture,Structural Engineering

The extension to London Underground’s Jubilee Line provides improved access for London’s West End/Docklands/North East corridor and assisted in the regeneration of parts of East London and Docklands.  Opus within a joint venture “Benaim-Works” was responsible for the design of Canada Water Underground Station.  The bulk of the station structure is constructed in cast-in-situ reinforced concrete which earned a prestigious award for excellence from the Concrete Society of Great Britain. This reflects the high standards of concrete design and control exercised throughout the construction. 

The station roof was designed to support an overhead bus station as well as traffic on an adjoining road. 

The main feature of the surface structures is a large glass drum, where passengers connect directly to the glazed tubular steel framed structure of the bus station. Voided areas beneath the glazed drum allow clear sight of the multilevel construction, emphasising the circular concrete columns with their conical column heads at station roof level. The roof and columns at the eastern end of the station were designed to support a future nine-storey commercial development block.

Extensive precasting techniques were used to keep the closure period of the East London Line to a minimum, and to enable the line to run through the works while excavations were carried out below.