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Shopping mall will hang beneath bridge

Transportation engineering consultants, M.M. Dillon Ltd., who designed the Expo Express for Expo 67 in Montreal, are planning an unusual fea- ture for part of Toronto's Spadina rapid transit line. A shopping mall is to be suspended beneath a bridge where the line and an expressway are cross- ed by Eglinton Avenue.

The 12-acre shopping mall will provide shopping facilities to replace those lost through the destruc- tion of existing shops which had to be removed for the construction of the large traffic interchange. Fully air-conditioned, the mall will be connected by underground passages to all four corners of the intersection, allowing pedestrians to move unimped- ed across the expressway.

Escalators will carry people up to buses or down to the rapid transit trains. It is expected that shop- pers will hardly be conscious of being underground

Bridge with shopping mall below

as they will enter the mall through sidewalk ramps which gradually slope down.

The total cost of the bridge and its facilities is estimated at C$3 million. Associated architects for the project are Clifford and Lawrie.

Euston station rebuilt for £15 million

The opening of the new Euston station in Octo- ber marked the culmination of one of the largest civil engineering and building schemes of its kind carried out in Britain. The £15 million project in- volved complete rebuilding on the 23-acre site of the 30,000 passenger-a-day main line terminus, while services were maintained.

Parcels depot straddling the new platforms

Euston

Main entrance plaza

There were two construction stages. The first comprised 18 new platforms with a total length of 41⁄2 miles, an overhead depot for handling parcels, a new signal box and telecommunications building, a station amenity building and workshops. The sec- ond included the main station building and con- course area, further extensions to the platforms and an underground car park. Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd. were the main contractors for both stages.

The three and four-storey passenger terminal building, 647 ft. long by 189 ft. wide, is of rein- forced concrete frame construction. It is faced in white mosaic, black polished granite columns, aluminium and glass screens with horizontal bands and blue-black stove enamelled steel infill panels.

The main concourse, 200 ft. wide, 150 ft. deep and 36 ft. high, is almost entirely glazed, with the exception of the north wall containing an electro- mechanically operated train indicator.

Building will house police and firemen

A combined police precinct station house and firehouse for New York City, has been designed for the Department of Public Works by architect Milton Frederick Kirchman.

The two-storey-plus-basement building will sepa- rate police and fire functions, and will include facilities for 600 policemen as well as firemen's dormitories and apparatus room.

The building will have an exterior of dark brick.

Far East BUILDER, December 1968

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