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OLYMPIC GAMES in London 2012: Concert on Trafalgar square "1 year to go!"
27 July 2011 exactly 1 year before the Opening ceremony of the Olympic games in London 2012 London held the concert on Trafalgar square to present Olympic medals, to represent GB team and to count down the clock that was set in the heart of Britain.
OLYMPIC GAMES in London 2012: Concert on Trafalgar square "1 year to go!"
27 July 2011 exactly 1 year before the Opening ceremony of the Olympic games in London 2012 London held the concert on Trafalgar square to present Olympic medals, to represent GB team and to count down the clock that was set in the heart of Britain.





![LONDON TUBE: Westminster Station
LONDON TUBE: Westminster Station
Westminster is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster. It is served by the Circle, District and Jubilee lines. On the Circle and District lines, the station is between St. Jamess Park and Embankment, and on the Jubilee line it is between Green Park and Waterloo. It is in Travelcard Zone 1. The station is located at the corner of Bridge Street and Victoria Embankment and is close to the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Parliament Square, Whitehall, Westminster Bridge, and the London Eye. Also close by are Downing Street, the Cenotaph, Westminster Millennium Pier, the Treasury, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the Supreme Court.
The station is in two parts: sub-surface platforms opened in 1868 by the District Railway (DR) as part of the companys first section of the Inner Circle route and deep level platforms opened in 1999 as part of the Jubilee line extension from Green Park to Stratford. A variety of underground and main line services have operated over the sub-surface tracks, but the original station was completely rebuilt in conjunction with the construction of the deep level platforms and Portcullis House, which sits above the station.
The construction of the deep-level station involved the excavation of a 39-metre (128 ft) deep void around and beneath the sub-surface station to house the escalators to the Jubilee line platforms. The void, known as the station box, was the deepest ever excavation in central London and was carried out between thick reinforced concrete diaphragm walls stiffened and braced horizontally for stability. Under Bridge Street, on the south side of the station box, the two Jubilee line platform tunnels are arranged with the westbound platform below the eastbound.
The depth of the station box excavation and the proximity of the tunnels represented a significant risk to the stability of the foundation of the Houses of Parliaments clock tower (popularly known as Big Ben), which stands only 34 metres (112 ft) from the edge of the station box. To protect the foundation and manage settlement in the sub-soil, a series of 50-metre (160 ft) long steel tubes were installed horizontally around and beneath the clock towers 3-metre (9.8 ft) thick foundation.
The tubes were provided with a control system through which grout was injected into the ground to compensate for settlement detected from detailed measurements of the clock towers position. As excavation of the station box and the tunnels took place, grout was injected on 22 occasions between January 1996 and September 1997. The process limited the movement of the clock tower to an acceptable maximum of 35 millimetres (1.4 in). Without the grout injection, the movement would have been at least 120 millimetres (4.7 in) causing cracking to the structure of the tower and the Houses of Parliament.[14] The Jubilee line platforms were opened on 22 December 1999, although trains had been running through the station without stopping since 20 November 1999.
The stations architecture is an austere combination of concrete and stainless steel, with stacked banks of escalators supported from the cross-bracing structures spanning the station box and routes for passengers entering or leaving the station separated from those changing between lines. As with the other underground stations on the extension, the Jubilee line platforms feature platform edge doors to improve airflow through the system and increase safety.
The station design won a number of awards including Civic Trust awards in 2000 and 2002, the Royal Fine Art Commission Millennium Building of the Year award in 2000 and the RIBA Award for Architecture in 2001. Both projects were jointly short-listed in 2001 for the RIBAs prestigious Stirling Prize. LONDON TUBE: Westminster Station](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/48_VzWO65gk/mqdefault.jpg)




