• A megalopolis of engineering: the verdict on London’s £18bn new Elizabeth line

    A megalopolis of engineering: the verdict on London’s £18bn new Elizabeth line
    From Brexit and Covid to the war in Ukraine, the world has changed dramatically since work began on the Crossrail project. With its opening imminent, our architecture critic takes a rideThe longest medieval cathedral in the world, Winchester, is 170 metres (558ft) from end to end. The new stations on the Elizabeth line are 240 metres (788ft) or more long, and sometimes nine or 10 storeys underground. And these are only the most visible manifestations of the vast volumes hollowed out of the Londo

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