Bunhill 2
Summary
The building in the photos is on the site of the disused Central Street station, closed in 1922, and is directly above the tube tunnel. The lower height part of the building in the photo above is a skin around the remains of the original 1901 structure, now housing an existing sub-station. It is also seeking to supply an additional three new communally heated residential developments (a further 215 homes), a school, a sheltered housing block, a community centre and a nursery. The project will be a European first of its kind, extending what is possible when using waste energy to make for a more liveable, more sustainable society. The proposed low-carbon heat source was a London Underground ventilation shaft, located on City Road, where 18-28 degrees Celsius air is exhausted to the atmosphere from a long abandoned tube station (City Road, between Old Street and Angel), now part of the Northern Line tunnel ventilation system.