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Discover moreNew London Underground ticket hall and entrance opens at Paddington Square
The new entrance to Paddington Underground Station is the latest addition to one of the city’s most well-connected hubs, linked to multiple Underground lines as well as to the UK’s busiest airport via the Heathrow Express.
G&T provided Cost Management and Employer’s Agent services for the new Underground facility as well as the rest of the landmark mixed-used development which makes up the site.
Paddington Station (incorporating the Underground and conventional trainlines) is the second busiest in the country and for many international and domestic visitors it is the symbolic gateway to London. The new ticket hall and entrance to the Underground network - which opened at the end of September - doubles the number of ticket gates from five to 11 and provides two new lifts, which give step-free access to a Bakerloo line platform for the first time. This upgrade also provides a spacious entrance to the Bakerloo and District & Circle lines, as well as connecting the new pedestrianised piazza to the Underground network.
62.5 million people are forecast to pass through Paddington Square every year, compared to Canary Wharf (50 million), St Pancras (50 million) and Covent Garden (42 million).
Paddington Underground Station sits beneath the new Paddington Square development, owned by Great Western Developments, which is made up of an 18-storey glass and steel building, world-class public realm as well as the Underground and train station. The building was designed by the internationally-renowned Renzo Piano Building Workshop and is the centrepiece of Paddington’s regeneration.
The development offers 35 retail and restaurant units with areas from 138 sq ft to 10,500 sq ft; a 1.35-acre public square; 350,000 sq ft of office space; and a rooftop restaurant which is 14,000 sq ft inside with 6,000 sq ft of terrace space.