* Preston Bus Station & car park was built in 1969
* The building was designed by Preston based Building Design Partnership * Engineers on the building were Ove Arup
* The Bus Station building has 80 bus bays and 1,100 car parking spaces * The Bus Station building is 171 metres (560 feet) long and 9 storey’s high * Around 1,500 bus journeys a day involve the Bus Station * Preston Bus Station acts as a hub for regional and national bus travel * The Bus Station is made of re-enforced concrete using modular pre-fabricated construction.
Design
* Built in the Brutalist architectural style between 1968 and 1969 * Designed by Keith Ingham and Charles Wilson of Building Design Partnership with E. H. Stazicker * It has a capacity of 80 double-decker buses, 40 along each side of the building. * Pedestrian access to the Bus Station is through any of three subways, one of which links directly to the adjacent Guild Hall. * The design also incorporates a multi-storey car park of five floors with space for 1,100 cars. * It has been described by The Twentieth Century Society as “one of the most significant Brutalist buildings in the UK”. * The building’s engineers, Ove Arup and Partners, designed the distinctive curve of the car park balconies “after acceptable finishes to a vertical wall proved too expensive, contributing to the organic, sculptural nature of the building.
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Distinctive curve of the car park balconies.
* The edges are functional, too, in that they protect car bumpers from crashing against a vertical wall. * The cover balustrade protects passengers from the weather by allowing buses to penetrate beneath the lower parking floor.”
