King's Cross Masterplan
by Allies and Morrison and Porphyrios Associates
Client Related Argent on behalf of King鈥檚 Cross Central Partnership
Award RIBA London Award 2024, RIBA National Award 2024 and shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2024
Although its last new buildings are just being completed, the redesigned King鈥檚 Cross is beginning to feel like it has always been there, and that, crucially, it 鈥榳orks鈥�. There is no higher testament to the success of a masterplan as a piece of city-making.
Its story began over 20 years ago. From the start, the project team set out their 鈥榩rinciples for a human city鈥�, based on offering character, variety, choice, and a sense of belonging which can underpin rapidly changing patterns of social and economic behaviour. These have been deployed not in a grandiose manner, but through careful understanding and reshaping of found geometries, stitching a previously cut-off part of the city back into the wider urban fabric. Excellent buildings by a range of architects characterise the campus, but all in a way that informs and substantiates the critical open spaces and routes which are the project鈥檚 true legacy.
Landscape Architect Townshend Landscape Architects with Applied Landscape Design
Engineering Arup with Sweco
Structure and Services Arup
Quantity Surveyor / Cost Consultant Gardiner & Theobald
Gross internal area in m虏 685400
