Brunel Award for St. Pancras Station

I see the Gare de l'Est also won one- which is interesting, seeing as
I nearly spent Monday night locked in there! To cut a long story
short, rather than wait 8 minutes for the next Metro to take me the
one stop to the Gare du Nord (at around 11.15pm, I decided to walk,
except that with only a couple of local trains leaving most of the
exits were closed or taped off, so I probably spent those eight
minutes trying to find the way out!

Pyromancer wrote:

>
> ??? Agree that the modern stick-on bit is a monstrosity, but I don't
> think it obscures anything - its sole saving grace is that in a future,
> more enlightened age, it should be relatively easy to remove it and
> rebuild the extension the way it should have been done, lengthening the
> main shed via an exact replica of itself, moving the end "wall" to the
> new end, and building scaled-down "mini-Barlows" on either side for the
> Kent and Domestic platforms.
>

Barlow's roof is spectacular, but, art and nostalgia
apart, but is it really what is needed for a modern
railway station? I personally find it draughty and
depressing.

(not that I think the EMT station is what's wanted either.)

Charlie