Olympic Fencers Protect
Tube Works Again
London Underground has once again
Zaun became synonymous with temporary
day, which is expected to increase to
turned to the largest supplier of high-
security fencing when it installed the
200,000 a day when Crossrail comes on
security fencing systems to the London
20km boundary to the main Olympic Park,
stream.
2012 Olympics to protect a site during
which included some intriguing 7.5m-high
construction works.
parapet fencing alongside the adjacent
Zaun supplied MultiFence, a temporary
high-security fencing and gates system it
developed specifically for the London 2012
railway line, with a further 1.5km of fencing
providing a ‘ring-within-a-ring’ around the
Olympic Stadium.
Games, temporary fencing and gates at the
Crossrail and Transport for London are
approaching £1bn upgrade of Tottenham
jointly redeveloping the existing 100 years-
Court Road Underground station.
old tube station at Tottenham Court Road
MultiFence was used previously as
hoardings to provide access while
and building a new station, expected to be
completed by 2016-2017.
Key journey times will be reduced from
Tottenham Court Road station to other
stations including Canary Wharf (21
minutes to 12 minutes), Ealing Broadway
(27 minutes to 12 minutes) and Heathrow
(53 minutes to 28 minutes).
The new four-storeyed underground
station will feature a new western ticket
hall at Dean Street, an eastern ticket hall,
three new station entrances, step-free
protecting construction works at nearby St
The work is at the intersection of Oxford
access, additional escalators to access
Paul’s tube station, at Kings Cross station
Street, Charing Cross Road and Tottenham
Northern line platforms, a public piazza,
and at the BullRing in Birmingham.
Court Road. The existing underground
access to the Northern and Central line
station handles 150,000 passengers per
platforms and a western station box.
www.zaun.co.uk
42 Landscape & Urban Design Issue 16