Developing space above rail lines is a highly complex and expensive task and there are many potential pitfalls, a veteran transport architect warns.
A deck over the rail yards of Sydney’s Central Station would be twice the size of the one built over New York subway lines at Hudson Yards, putting it at a likely cost of between $2 billion and $3 billion, Mr McAslan said.
Mr McAslan’s London-based firm was masterplanner and lead designer for the restoration of King’s Cross Station – part of a massive redevelopment of the 67-acre site in northern London, in whichThere need to be all sorts of mixed uses, which will turn it into a proper place rather than just another office park.
“It can’t be led by development needs alone, it has to be what is needed, what affordable housing needs there must be, needs for cultural activation,” Mr McAslan said. “There need to be all sorts of mixed uses, which will turn it into a proper place rather than just another office park.
“The key is to avoid edges to the streets,” he said. “In the sense that you have a non-active edge, and a podium that is sitting maybe 10 metres above you, you have to activate the edges with public uses and with a sense that you’re not looking up at Central Park, or whatever you call it.”– a 2.3 kilometre-long pedestrian path and public park built on disused freight rail tracks – it didn’t do that at ground level, Mr McAslan said.
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