The Twentieth Century Society is calling for a heritage listing to be applied to Foster + Partners' North Greenwich Interchange, which is threatened with demolition by Santiago Calatrava's recently unveiled £1 billion development.
The UK heritage body submitted a Grade II* listing application for the North Greenwich Interchange by Foster + Partners and the North Greenwich Underground Station by Alsop, Lyall & Stormer at at the end of 2016.
The application coincided with Greenwich council's decision to grant outline planning permission to developers Knight Dragon for the redevelopment of the peninsula ? including a £1 billion complex by Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava on the site of the existing station and interchange. Successful listing of the London tube station and interchange could curtail plans for Calatrava's scheme, while its rejection would spell demolition for both.
The North Greenwich Interchange by Foster + Partners and the North Greenwich Underground Station by Alsop, Lyall & Stormer were built less than 20 years ago in 1998-9
The tube station and canopy above were created as part of the Jubilee Line extension in 1998-9. The Twentieth Century Society describes the structures as "outstanding" examples of architecture.
"Our application was not in response to shortcomings of the newly proposed scheme, but because we would deeply regret the loss of two recent and outstanding examples of late-20th-century infrastru...