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Foster + Partners
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Foster + Partners, Thames Hub, London AirportThames Hub is a bold new approach to future infrastructure development in Britain. It brings together rail, freight logistics, aviation, energy and its transmission, flood protection and regional development. It is unique for its scale and strategic cross-sector thinking. Recognising the synergies between these different strands, it reaps the benefits of their integration. It is an opportunity to reassert Britain’s role as an international gateway for people, freight and communications.

Foster + Partners, Thames Hub, London Airport The vision includes a new orbital rail link around London, which would connect with a future high-speed rail line from London to the cities of the Midlands and the North, opening up a direct connection to continental Europe. This would create an unrivalled freight distribution network and put Britain at the centre of manufacturing distribution, as well as releasing pressure from roads and commuter services.

A new international airport located in the Thames Estuary on the Isle of Grain would benefit from these new linkages. Establishing the proposed aviation hub in the South East would satisfy the capacity needed today and allow for future expansion, while reducing the environmental and security problems of aircraft over-flying London.

Major new distribution networks for power, utilities and data are needed across the UK, without adding visual clutter to the rural landscape. This is where integration delivers environmental as well as economic benefits. The Spine offers a pioneering new solution, drawing on landscape traditions. It will incorporate data cabling, water and energy distribution routes, integrated with the rail and road network in conduits in the ground, invisible in the landscape, simple to maintain and easy to secure.

A new flood barrier in the Thames Estuary is also a necessity, but has the potential to deliver other comprehensive improvements, while securing London’s future flood protection: it can alleviate housing shortages by creating new flood protected land for residential development; it can provide a platform for an integrated rail and road crossing to open up new trade routes between the UK and Europe; it can generate renewable energy from tidal flows; and it can bridge the Estuary to create a vital new corridor for utilities, communications and data.
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LOCALIZZAZIONE
 
Continente
Europa
Nazione
Gran Bretagna [United Kingdom]
Stato
Inghilterra [England]
Regione
South East
Contea
Kent
Distretto
Medway
Città
Isle of Grain
 
 
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enquiries@thameshub.co.uk
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TIPOLOGIA
 
ARCHITETTURA
Edifici e strutture per i trasporti
Aeroporti, terminal, ecc.

URBANISTICA E PROGETTAZIONE URBANA
Nuovi insediamenti
Nuovi territori, isole artificiali
Progettazione urbana e rinnovo urbano
Aree e infrastrutture adibite al trasporto
Infrastrutture di trasporto e viabilità
Poli d'interscambio
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CRONOLOGIA
 
Progetto
2010 - 2015    
Realizzazione
2015 - 2029
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PREMI
 
2012
Global AirRail Awards
Project of the Year
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RIFERIMENTI BIBLIOGRAFICI
 
 
Pamela Buxton, "Runway success", Blueprint 333, march/april 2014, pp. 23, 74-86
"Thames Hub, Isle of Grain, inner Thames Estuary (Foster & Partners)", Blueprint 333, march/april 2014, p. 83 (74-86)
"The Thames Hub airport, Isle of Grain, UK. Foster & Partners", L'Arca International 116, january/february 2014, p. 70
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AGGIUNTE E DIGRESSIONI
 
 
Reaction to the Airports Commission final report
Foster + Partners, Thames Hub, London AirportThe only long term answer to the question posed to the Airports Commission, "how do we maintain our global aviation hub status" is a brand new 4-runway 24 hour airport to the east of the capital, the Thames Hub. It is a bold, flexible, future-proof solution which neither Heathrow, nor Gatwick will ever achieve.

The expansion of London towards the east has now been reinforced with the approval of Ebbsfleet Garden City and moves toward a Lower Thames crossing – further validating the relocation of the airport to the Isle of Grain. The argument against the relocation of the bird habitat has been diminished with the success of the Wallasea wetland project further down the Estuary.

The Thames Hub airport will deliver the global connectivity that Londoners demand whilst bringing respite to all tormented by aircraft noise. Connecting the UK to new global destinations throughout the day and night, it can be built for a cost of £26 billion including upgraded road and rail services in just 7 years – the same time it will take for a new runway at Heathrow to be squeezed into a London borough. An integrated rail hub will connect services to Europe, London in just 30 minutes and the rest of the UK.

With our growing confidence in large scale infrastructure projects in the UK, now is the time to recast the debate within the larger interests of the country. Global trade demands newer, higher capacity transport infrastructure, and London cannot afford to be left behind, the credibility of a new Thames Hub airport has never been stronger.
Lord Foster:
Foster + Partners, Thames Hub, London Airport“We need to recapture the foresight and political courage of our 19 century forebears if we are to establish a modern transport and energy infrastructure in Britain. The current ‘patch and mend’ attitude to increase airport capacity is not the answer to the massive challenges we face today. The Thames Hub is part of a larger ideal to create an infrastructural ‘spine’, which binds together the rail, communication, and energy networks currently being built across the country. It is a bold concept that continues to gain validity as the city expands eastward and transport links strengthen. We believe the Thames Hub is the only comprehensive, durable solution that can ensure aviation hub status and long-term economic prosperity in Britain for this century and beyond. As someone who is close to the world of aviation, I believe there are also serious security risks of overflying the heart of a city at the scale of London.”
 
Foster + Partners, Thames Hub, London AirportThe case for the Thames Hub Airport:
  • The Thames Hub airport will be linked to the rest of the UK and Europe by High Speed rail with a 30 minute ride to central London.
  • It will be closer to shipping ports for the efficient distribution of goods.
  • An integrated rail hub at the terminal will serve 300,000 people a day and cater for the 150 million passengers per annum capacity new 24-hour airport that will connect the UK to all the emerging economic capitals of the world.
  • Air and noise pollution is a quality of life issue and with the capital’s population due to expand by 20% over the next two decades this has become even more pressing. We need to move our hub airport out of our suburbs and unlock the space – equivalent to a new borough – for more homes and jobs within the city.
  • The capital is moving east, and the Thames Hub airport is the obvious answer to the question "how do we maintain our global aviation hub status".
  • Independent research has shown that in the next decade we need to connect to 55 new destinations across the world to maintain our access to a consistent share of global trade.

Proposals for Heathrow and Gatwick are unworkable:
  • Neither Heathrow, nor Gatwick will ever be a satisfactory long term solution. Expansion at Heathrow could never meet London’s future emission targets – hemmed in by motorways and dense communities – and would bring unacceptable levels of noise and air pollution to large swaths of London.
  • The impossibility of a fourth runway and the need to conform to the new EU guidelines for emissions will seriously inhibit Heathrow’s ability to add flights to cope with future demand.
  • Even with quieter, low-emission aircraft in operation, noise and air quality at Heathrow remains at intolerable levels and set to deteriorate further.
  • Heathrow has consistently under-estimated traffic figures and costs, as well as the projected demand for flights in the future.
  • Gatwick on the other hand, simply does not answer the original question. Airlines acknowledge that there can only be one national hub, and Gatwick is simply not a viable alternative to Heathrow.
  • Foster + Partners, Thames Hub, London AirportWhile we waste valuable time discussing inadequate stop-gap solutions, our global hub status continues to be eroded by rivals such as Dubai, Doha, and Istanbul, all with plans for next-generation airports.
  • Many cities around the world such as Hong Kong and Paris have moved entire airports when it becomes clear that the quality of city life has become severely compromised.
  • The ban to be imposed on night flights at Heathrow (2330 – 0600) will hamper direct connectivity with destinations from the Far-east.

A number of developments since the project was launched in 2011, means it is more viable than ever before:
  • The Ebbsfleet Garden City, close to the Isle of Grain where we propose to build the airport, has been approved for development, creating a demand for jobs and improved road and rail access, including Crossrail.
  • The Lower Thames Crossing is expected to be built by 2025 increasing access to the North Kent area – all this infrastructural investment in the area serves to support the idea of the Thames Hub.
  • Wallasea, the wetland island in Essex created by tunnelling spoil from Crossrail, and turned into a nature reserve has been hailed a success.
  • London Gateway Port has successfully transferred all wildlife from the Thames-side site – settling the environmental argument often levelled at the Thames Hub.
  • Park Royal, an industrial site to the north of Heathrow is now ready for development under a Mayoral Development Corporation order, a new town supporting people, new jobs and new clean industry, which can help transition Heathrow employees to new work – answering critics who feel the removal of the airport from the Heathrow site will spell doom for the people who currently work there.
  • The new Swansea Barrage, Crossrail, the Super Sewer and HS2 are all projects that prove that we have the vision to think big, and that infrastructure is the backbone of a prosperous country.
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