Southwark tube station

Southwark is an underground station of the London Underground in the London Borough of Southwark. It is located in the Travelcard Zone 1, at the junction of Blackfriars Road and The Cut. In the year 2011 there were 11.07 million passengers these by the Jubilee Line station. There is a direct connection to Waterloo East Railway Station. Points of interest include the Globe Theatre and the Tate Modern. The historic center of Southwark is not here, but farther to the southeast in the Borough station.

The opening of the station on 24 September 1999. Unlike most other stations on the eastern extension of the Jubilee Line towards Stratford and Docklands here was not enough space to set architectural standards on a large scale. The building, designed by architects MacCormac Jamieson Prichard entrance building is rather flat; in the future it should be increased to an office building. In addition, the station had to be built under and around a Victorian railway viaduct. This required the construction of two buildings on different levels.

Located on the surface first hall is the centerpiece of the station. Through the 15.95 meter high glass roof with daylight, which is also evident from the lower level. On one side there is a 39.9 -meter-long glass wall, in the 660 artfully honed blue glass pieces are inserted, which were created by artist Alexander Beleschenko. This hall tubular escalator shafts lead down to the second hall at the height of the platforms. There are two " buoys " of glass and steel at both ends of the hall. The walls are made of stainless steel, which have not been deliberately polished to a high gloss. According to the responsible architect Richard MacCormac, the design should go back to designs of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, one of the most important Prussian architect of the 19th century. As in opened in 1999 tunnel stations of the Jubilee Line extension and the platforms in Southwark are separated by platform doors of the tracks.