Alsop's Stratford DLR station opens

SMC Alsop's Stratford Dockland Light Railway (DLR) station on the edge of the London 2012 Olympic Park in East London has fully opened to the public.

The first platform, with its 'snaking' triangulated lightweight steel-framed roof, was completed back in June, but it has taken another five months for the second platform and footbridge to come into day-to-day use.
 
The new terminus will cater for 'significantly increased capacity' in the run up to the 2012 Games.
 
Due to site constraints, the station extension is a 'hybrid combination' of two narrow 3 x 84m long, non-parallel, side platforms which plug into the western side of the existing Stratford Station mezzanine.
 
Describing the scheme, a spokesman for the practice said: 'Although the underside of the structure is lined continuously with woven stainless-steel mesh, the triangulated, black-painted, steel structure remains semi-visible'.
 
'Inserted into the canopy are intermittent, cut out, triangular rooflights which allow daylight penetration and views out.'