The first image of the proposed new Waitrose and affiliated cookery school at King’s Cross Central, N1, has been released.
Bennetts Associates-designed plans for the Midland Goods Shed and East Handyside Canopy comprise a 29,000sq ft Waitrose supermarket and 2,400 sq ft cookery school.
Built in 1850, the Midland Goods Shed started life as a temporary passenger terminal, used while today’s King’s Cross station was being built.
The application to Camden council by the Argent-led King’s Cross Central Partnership, on behalf of Waitrose, comes one year after the retailer confirmed it had signed a 25-year lease for the shop and a 10-year lease for the school.
Will Colthorpe, partner at Argent, said: “Bennetts Associates have produced a superb design that will bring the Midland Goods shed and East Handyside structures back to life, in a way that celebrates and preserves their Victorian identity.”
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