Google King’s Cross
Google King’s Cross Following their collaboration to design Google’s new campus in California, Heatherwick Studio and BIG were commissioned to create the company’s new headquarters in London. The team’s focus was not just to make special large workspaces but to find an architectural language that could fit into the local community of King’s Cross and an intense urban context. The studio has a close relationship with King’s Cross which has been its home for more than 15 years and where it is has also designed a new shopping quarter. The area is a fascinating collision of diverse building types and spaces, of massive railway stations, roads, canals and other infrastructure all lay-ered up to create the most connected point in London. Influenced by these surroundings the team chose to treat the project like a piece of infrastructure too, made from a family of interchangeable el-ements and with a similar quality of flexibility as old industrial buildings which can be re-used in many ways over time. Rather than a typical office tower the unusual site called for a 330 metre long building; as long as The Shard is tall.
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