Train passengers out of King’s Cross or St Pancras stations are used to seeing the slender neoclassical gasholder frames silhouetted against the sky. Constructed in 1867, the historic structures are now being refurbished as a residential complex around a park, following a competition win by Wilkinson Eyre in 2005 which proposed three new residential buildings within the circular cast iron structures with varied heights reminiscent of the movement of the original gasholders, which would have risen and fallen depending on the pressure of the gas inside them.
The project, designed with Jonathan Tuckey Design for the interiors and Dan Pearson Studio for landscaping to be robust and complimentary to the original structures with a metal veil of solar shutters, is now under construction with a marketing suite that shows a small portion of what will be achieved in the final scheme of 145 apartments connected by circular walkways around a central courtyard and rooftop gardens, all linked in to the overall King’s Cross masterplan and taking advantage of the canal-side location.
[…] in a kiss at the centre, to be occupied by Samsung. It is great to see it set against the Gasholders which, designed by Wilkinson Eyre, combine historic structures with contemporary living and new […]