Haymarket Metro Station
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Refurbished station platform
Four-storey, £21m, building with a quadrilateral plan, vaulted, zinc-clad roof and distinctive semi-circular eyebrows on each facade
Haymarket station has been rebuilt, with a retail and leisure hub replacing the existing station structure, which first opened to passengers in 1980 when the Tyne and Wear Metro first started running.
The retail units will open out onto a new Metro Station concourse and the escalators and underground platforms will be completely redesigned with the aim of introducing the first of a new generation of Metro Stations.
Predominantly clad in glass and zinc the building appears monumentally simple from the outside, in fact the building is a complicated piece of engineering. It is a bridge structure spanning the twin underground tunnels below.
The primary structure is a quadrilateral cage of trusses supported off pile caps by four columns with the station's curved roof supported on a series of radiating square, curved tubes.
Data
- Begun: Aug 2007
- Completed: Jun 2009
- Sector: Transport
- Total cost: £21M
- Funding: Private
- Procurement: Design and Build
- Address: Haymarket Metro station, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 7PQ, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Sadler Brown Architecture
- Project architects: Alastair Bell, Kevin Brown
- Client: Closegate/Tolent/Nexus Metro
- Main contractor: Tolent Construction
- Quantity surveyor: Summers Inman
- Structural engineer: Arup
- Services engineer: Arup