please empty your brain below
Nice looking building though.

Cornish Cockney | 22.05.18 - 9:16 a.m. | #

Hmm, looks good - nice to see TfL investing in good design - but is it really brutalist? I haven't been, but from these photos, there seems to be too much added decoration and too little raw concrete. (The stairs with the wood effect look the sort of thing, but the orange handrails and wooden bars on the windows spoil it for me. And the entrance does not look brutality at all.)

Andrew | 22.05.18 - 9:35 a.m. | #

Lets see how long it lasts before some work shy idiot sprays some pointless tags all over it, in this area anything that doesn't move gets tagged and ruined.

fishislandskin | 22.05.18 - 9:49 a.m. | #

It has a 21st century twist to it, but it's quite recognisably the same architectural style of the 1960s-built university I went to. Beton brut does not mean some warm touches aren't allowed. Indeed, the *interior* of the student accommodations at my school were quite cozy, full of wood, glass and carpeting. The defining characteristic is the unfinished (showing its moulding material) concrete exterior like the stairwell sides. The pre-cast slabs are a bit *too* plain for my taste, but I'm always going to welcome a well-done brutalist structure (of which there are not many).

Chz | 22.05.18 - 10:00 a.m. | #

Looks good, but I would have preferred 'Hackney Wick' centered, and is the word 'station' necessary, and given that this has been part of the Overground since 2007 what about continuing the concrete support above the roof line and putting the roundel on that?

Still Anon | 22.05.18 - 10:50 a.m. | #

I would argue that the word "Station" is more necessary on such a building, than the words "Hackney Wick". People already know that they are in Hackney Wick (or even if they don't, they can probably wait to read smaller writing when they get to the station). But they may not know which of the various concrete structures they can see is the station.

Malcolm | 22.05.18 - 4:51 p.m. | #

Malcolm - the word 'Station' is on the bit not facing White Post Lane, so can't be seen, incidentally 'Hackney Wick' is centered over the entrance on the visuals, instead of justified to the left in reality, and it makes me so angry.

Still Anon | 22.05.18 - 8:54 p.m. | #

Does it have a toilet?

dg writes: No.

David Knight | 27.05.18 - 3:17 a.m. | #











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