Shinto ceremony marks start of British Library extension and Crossrail 2 station

A Japanese Shinto ceremony has marked the start of construction on the British Library’s £1.1 billion extension, a development that will also reserve underground space for a future Crossrail 2 station.
Schematic of old and new site and Crossrail 2 – Source: British Library planning application
The ceremony – which incorporated a series of Shinto rituals to prepare the site for construction work and to ask the ‘kami’ or guardian spirits of the land for good luc