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Westfield London is a shopping centre in White City, London, United Kingdom, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The centre was developed by the Westfield Group at a cost of £1.6bn,〔 〕〔 In a later document published in 2008, the WDC cost was estimated at £1.1bn - see 〕 on a site bounded by the West Cross Route (A3220), the Westway (A40) and Wood Lane (A219). It opened on 30 October 2008 and became the largest covered shopping development in the capital, dethroning the Whitgift Centre in Croydon. The site is part of the White City district, where several other large scale development projects are under way or in the planning stages. The development is on a large brownfield site, part of which was once the location of the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition; the initial site clearance demolished the set of halls still remaining from the exhibition (their cheap-to-build, white-painted blank facades are said to be the origin of the name "White City"). Much of the site was in use as a railway depot excavated to a lower level and built over. The centre is noted for its size: it has a retail floor area of 150,000 m² (1.615m ft²), the equivalent of about 30 football pitches. At the time of its opening it was reported to be the second largest commercial centre in the UK (after MetroCentre near Newcastle).〔 The nearest London Underground stations are Wood Lane, White City, Shepherd's Bush and Shepherd's Bush Market. The nearest rail station is Shepherd's Bush, served by suburban London Overground services and by longer distance Southern services between and East Croydon. ==Construction== The initial plan for a shopping centre at this location was developed by a consortium, the largest company involved being the UK division of Australian property company Multiplex Group. However, due to heavy financial lossses in other ventures, including the construction of the new Wembley Stadium, Multiplex UK was forced to sell its stake to another Australian company (and competitor), Westfield Group. The development was built by ''Westfield Construction'', the developer's own construction arm and was delivered on schedule.〔(Structural Systems )〕 Robert Bird Group were the structural engineers for the job.〔() Robert Bird Westfield Description〕 The roof was designed by Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering (Stuttgart, Germany).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering )〕 The project took five years to build, employing 8000 people.〔(HeraldSun.com.au - Westfield to open London mega centre )〕 The Project Director was John Roberts. There was a structural/organisational challenge relating to the White City depot of the Central line (Underground) railway. It covered a large proportion of the site, and had to be kept fully operational while being excavated beneath and relocated bit by bit at a lower level to allow the centre to make use of its previous location. There were also considerable precautions needed due to the expectation of finding unexploded bombs from raids on a local munitions factory during the World War II blitz. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Westfield London」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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