Two Pancras Square

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This building provides office, retail and restaurant space and is one of the first buildings to be built within our masterplan for King's Cross. The two main elevations are designed differently in response to the character of the two public spaces they face. On the King's Boulevard side, shopfronts sit between the columns helping to define an urban street, and in contrast on Pancras Square, the building line sets back to form a colonnade. The facades are white precast stone outer masonry layer behind which sits a fine metal and glass inner layer. A high perfomance building, it acheives a BREEAM Outstanding rating.

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The masonry window surrounds become more delicate as the building rises, whilst the inner glass layer recedes inwards, revealing a glimpse of the sky at the final floor

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Golden coloured metal panels applied to one side of the reveals provide visual variation

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King's Boulevard side

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Roof gardens provide amenity for the building occupants and a valuable habitat for birds and insects

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Office floor plates with generous floor to ceiling heights ensure good light penetration into the depth of the building

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A series of picture windows connect the internal reception with Pancras Square

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Context

City
London N1C
Use
Workplace
Client
Argent
Status
Completed
Size
16,600 sqm
Environmental credentials
2011 BREEAM Outstanding
Awards

Civic Trust Award Commendation 2016, International Green Apple Award for the Built Environment and Architectural Heritage Silver 2016

Collaborators
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Structure: AKT II

Services: Grontmij

Landscape: Townshend Landscape Architects

Acoustics: Sandy Brown

Cost: Davis Langdon

Lighting: Spiers & Major

Sustainability: Grontmij

Fire: AECOM

Contractor: BAM Construction South East

Photography: Nick Guttridge