The exterior as you approach from King’s Cross Station is a little austere, its horizontal cladding perhaps having a link back to the former Daily Express Building in Fleet Street, which would be appropriate as this is the headquarters of the Guardian and Observer newspapers. The street façade could, however, be considered to be […]
King’s Cross continues to demonstrate what the best design-focused urban regeneration can achieve. With The Granary housing Central Saint Martin’s at its heart, expansive and interesting public spaces and a blend of new buildings by the best architects alongside refurbishments such as Thomas Heatherwick’s Coal Drops Yards, King’s Cross has set a standard which others […]
What will be the toys of the future? Children just love playing with building blocks, being able to create new forms and structures from a range of shapes, hence the success of LEGO. Many children, who may be future architects or engineers, will try to pile them up into towers that challenge gravity until […]
Tom Dixon, (born in 1959), who was the Creative Designer of Habitat in the late 1990′s, has not only has just been awarded the London Design Medal, but he has contributed to make King’s Cross the creative and design district that it is today with his expansive presence in the arches of Coal Drops Yards, […]
Wilkinson Eyre’s new residential development at King’s Cross has given three historic gasholders with their sculptural frames new life and a new identity, their 19th century classical sculptural frames facing across to the new park within the fourth gasholder and out to the Regent’s Canal beyond. In one of the hottest summers of recent […]
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 […]
The public spaces of Kings Place in London are enlivened with sculptures from Pangolin London, which also has an exhibition gallery in the building, an artistic partnership which should benefit everyone. Down on the lower floor of the main atrium, the aluminium sculpture “Brighter than Shadows” sparkles brightly as it reflects the light in its […]
Why are pedestrian tunnels often dark dismal spaces? The new lighting artwork at King’s Cross, London shows that it can be different and that starting a journey on the underground can be a joy rather than a burden. As part of the King’s Cross redevelopment, a new entrance has been created to the underground station with a 90 […]
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