Plans for Google’s latest King’s Cross office, designed by French architect Michel Mossessian, have been submitted to Camden council.
The 11-storey S2 building at King’s Cross, N1, will comprise 180,000 sq ft of flexible open-plan office space with shops and restaurants on the ground floor.
It is the third Google office to be unveiled at the Argent-led regeneration of King’s Cross. Google’s main proposed headquarters, on the southern part of the site, is currently being redesigned ahead of a new planning submission.
Google is fitting out its other King’s Cross office – AXA Investment Management’s 6 Pancras Square – and is due to move in next year.
S2 is one of a pair of Mossessian-designed blocks that have been submitted for planning and represent the next office phase in Argent’s 67-acre scheme.
The neighbouring S1 building will total 175,000 sq ft and is not yet let.
The buildings, which are linked stylistically, will be clad in textured black stone that will contrast with the white window “cavities” in their façades.
A passageway between them will lead to a new public square that will contain restaurants.
Mossessian said: “The key is to acknowledge that there is a fine line between public, curated and private tenants’ realm, from the ground up to the rooftops of the buildings.
“This is what makes the spaces hang together and generate a strong and engaging urban and spatial character for users.”
Offsite meeting space provider Wallacespace has agreed to lease the whole of Standard Life Investments’ 15-25 Artillery Lane, E1.
The start-up will open its fourth London location at the 17,000 sq ft development, which was completed recently by Helical Bar and has been designed by Morrow + Lorraine.
Helical Bar forward sold the development to Standard Life for £15.1m earlier this year.
Wallacespace’s existing locations are in Covent Garden, WC2; St Pancras, NW1; and Clerkenwell Green, EC1.
Savills is advising Standard Life Investments; Hanlon Bennett Consulting is acting for Wallacespace.
