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The Elizabeth Line has been named winner of the 2024 RIBA Stirling Prize. The line, which boasts ten new stations, handles around 700,000 passengers every weekday and spans 62 miles of track and 26 miles of tunnels.
A team of designers and engineers, led by architects Grimshaw, received the award for the project, which directly connects central London with destinations in Berkshire to the west and Essex to the east.
The winning scheme comprises platform architecture, passenger tunnels, escalators, station concourses, signage, furniture, fittings, finishes and supporting technology.
The new stations were designed by separate architects. The other projects on the 2024 shortlist were an 11-council home in Hackney, the second phase of the regeneration of Sheffield’s listed Park Hill estate, the masterplan for the regeneration of Kings Cross, the transformation of a Dorset dairy farm into holiday lets and the remodelling of the National Portrait Gallery.
