Foster + Partners’ Crossrail Place development has opened at Canary Wharf in London. A curving timber lattice roof wraps around four levels of leisure and retail facilities and a rooftop public garden. The opening comes three years before Canary Wharf Crossrail Station itself throws open its doors in 2018, serving the new Crossrail railway line. Fosters said the public garden is densely planted with trees and plants and is interspersed

Mayor of London Boris Johnson has announced finalised plans for a new cycle superhighway in the UK capital. After what Johnson called “one of the the biggest consultation exercises in Transport for London’s (TfL’s) history”, plans have been given the green light by the mayor, who has pledged £913m (€1,222m, US$1,386m) towards getting Londoners back on their bikes. The scheme will create Europe’s longest segregated urban cycle way through central

The fast-progressing Crossrail development at London's Canary Wharf is to bring a new leisure and retail centre, with 100,000sq ft (9,290sq m) of consumer-enticing space, a rooftop park and a community facility on offer. The project is nearing completion with the final piece of a timber lattice roof having been lowered into place, which is to partially cover the complex’s green space roof-top offering. Once complete, the development will be

The team behind London's £14.8bn rail project Crossrail has revealed plans to host permanent large-scale public art across eight stations along the 118km route. Crossrail - to be funded entirely through private sponsorship - will work with leading art organisations and commercial galleries to secure international commissions for the project, called The Cultural Line. Crossrail, due to open in 2018, will include 37 stations spanning from Maidenhead and Heathrow in