Project team includes developer Stanhope and engineer Arup
Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners has lodged plans for its controversial extension to Colin Wilson and MJ Long鈥檚 grade I-listed British Library in Euston.
Revised designs for the scheme, which were first revealed in July last year, will require the demolition of buildings to the north of the library, including the 2007 British Library Centre for Conservation (BLCC) designed by Long & Kentish, which caused howls of protest.
The site has also been earmarked as a temporary construction compound for the mothballed Crossrail 2 project.
The developer, a JV between Stanhope and Mitsui Fudosan, have secured the site by agreeing a deal with Transport for London which will see it carry out the work to build 5,000 sq m of shafts and passageways descending seven storeys beneath RSHP鈥檚 extension in case the railway is revived.
More details of the 97,000sq m scheme have emerged in the plans, submitted to Camden Council last week.
The work for Crossrail 2 will include the main civils and structural elements of the Euston St Pancras Station eastern shaft and passenger subway tunnel.
Arup has also been appointed to the project, with DSDHA working on the scheme鈥檚 public realm.
The amount of commercial space has been expanded from 73,000sq m to 76,000sq m. This will be aimed at life sciences tenants and other businesses wanting proximity to the area鈥檚 emerging Knowledge Quarter. As well as PLP and HOK鈥檚 Francis Crick Institute, a 拢1bn pharmaceutical centre designed by AHMM on a nearby site was given the green light last year.
The amount of library space, which will occupy the first two floors including a link to the main library, has stayed the same at 10,000 sq m. This will include a public foyer and new headquarters for the Alan Turing Institute.
When the plans were first unveiled last year they sparked anger among architects and historians, with Patrick Lynch dubbing the designs a 鈥渢hird-rate wedge of nothing鈥�.
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