By Dan Harvey
Feature
High Speed 2
With main HS2 works contracts announced for Euston and Old Oak Common (p92, last month), plans for the wider development of Euston are starting to crystallise. HS2 works at Euston are gathering pace with scaffolding climbing up the two 1970s towers in front of the station, tower cranes in place and the demolition of the old IBIS and UCL buildings on Hampstead Road complete. The disused former National Temperance Hospital has also gone.