As the Elizabeth Line – London’s largest infrastructure project in decades – opens to the public, Weston Williamson + Partners’ designs for two of the line’s new stations, at Paddington and Woolwich, have now been revealed.

Paddington – the oldest station on the Elizabeth Line – uses space, volume and light to match the epic grandeur of Brunel’s mainline station. Meanwhile, at Woolwich, the line’s only brand new station has an honest and robust character that, alongside the careful use of materials and detailing, references the site’s rich military heritage.

The Elizabeth Line is a transformational new railway line for London, and will stretch more than 100km from Reading and Heathrow in the west through central London to Shenfield and Abbey Wood in the east. 2022 sees the opening of the central section where, uniquely, Weston Williamson + Partners were tasked with designing two stations in their entirety.

Find out more about the design details at Paddington, in this brilliant write-up by Robert Bevan for the Evening Standard.