Designed for Rental. A community of homes with unrivalled amenities
Author King’s Cross is a vibrant new development by Related Argent featuring 182 private apartments designed to rent. Straddling the border between the London boroughs of Camden and Islington, it represents the last plot in the comprehensive and transformative Kings Cross Masterplan.
Three buildings are centred around a triangular landscaped courtyard, each designed by a different practice: David Morley Architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Haptic. Ranging from three to sixteen storeys tall, they take on different personalities, but form a collective, coherent vision.
A build to rent development in one of the most spectacular regeneration schemes London has seen in years. Our judges were impressed by the way the different buildings were ranged around a landscaped courtyard, and the high quality of the internal design.
Judges comment, Evening Standard New Homes Award for Best Large Development
a place to live, work and play in the city
The building designed by FCBStudios marks a gateway to the Kings Cross Estate, both at street level on York Way and from the approach to the train station by Eurostar. It is made up of two blocks which step up in scale from 11 to 16 storeys, providing 140 market rental homes, most with private balconies, and allowing for double the number of corner apartments for more natural light and views across the wider site.
The light-filled ground and first floor levels provide unrivalled, state-of-the-art amenities promoting a sense of community, wellbeing, work and play, including a private dining room, screening room, gym and co-working spaces.
A London square in everything except shape
The central public space and community garden, designed by fabrik and Jan Kattein, offers a sense of place with an open lawn designed to cater for informal games and play, but also relaxation. On the lower ground floor, shops and cafes front onto York Way serving residents and locals.
This development complements its surroundings, characterised by years of industry and railway use. Predominantly brick clad in dark hues, they echo the sooty brick colour of some of London’s great residential squares and relate to the surrounding railway infrastructure.