The out come

The 67 acres are divided to 60 per cent of built space while another 40 per cent for open space. In the built space, the majority area is for offices and residential with 56 and 24 per cent respectively. The 20 per cent left is for retail , leisure , culture, education and hotel.

The project is the mixed-use development, divided roughly into 4 periods.

2008 King’s cross as the cathedral of railways

First period which had been done since 2008. The St Pancras International was extraordinary refurbished, made King’s cross St. Pancras is one of the most significant transportation interchange for both local and international travel. Moreover, there are couple of billion pounds has been spent to improve local transportation. One kilometres of cannel and natural park land beside also had reestablished.

2012 King’s cross as a cultural powerhouse

The middle of the side in the northern part is the Granary Complex, which is the new home of arts college Central Saint Martins. Many old buildings have been refurbished and Gasholder No. 8, which is Grade II listed building, will be re-establish (2013) as a landmark of King’s cross site. All mixed use will fully function in this period. The Energy Centre will provide 100 per cent of heat requirements in the project emphasising the sustainable consideration in this project.

2016 King’s cross as a work place and a place to shop

At this stage, the project will be targeting King’s cross as a business place and commercial. A huge number of retail, restaurant and working space across the site will be the most attractive place that people want to visit again and again.Much office buildings start to construct as well as student housing.

2020 King’s cross as city home and business locationFinal period, the project will mainly focus on more business space and housing.Various type of housing almost 2000 homes and many green spaces will be delivered. The complete picture of the place for living, work and shop will be fulfill at the end.

(Clementi, 2012)

Some comments

At the beginning the railway lands offers wholesale change, leave the area open. Conversely, the final development is full of building with mixed-use concept (Campkin, 2004). ‘Mixed-use’ and ‘diverse’ generally are the easy answers from the development-led project. It is a formal urban logic from corporate interests (Campkin, 2004). As can be seen, Class- sensitivity did not take into account properly, the consequence is the project separate from the community (Holgersen and Haarstad, 2009).

In term of the history background in that area, this project seem does not fit well.

“From the outside, the form of the new building establishes no particular relationship with the things around it and contributes to the making of a formless no-man's-land between King's Cross, St Pancras and various preserved oddments” (Moore, 2012)

Woodman (2012) criticises that actually, the concourse can service appropriately under a flat-ceiling space at 4.5 metres high. However, the building needs to be recognizable, so it is beyond the function.

Refferences.

- Clementi, D (2012). Overview Brochure. [Online] Available at: http://www.kingscross.co.uk/downloads

- Campkin, B (2004). Urban Image and Legibility in King's Cross. In Advances in Art, Urban Futures. 2004, Vol. 4, p63-79

- Holgersen, S. and Haarstad, H. (2009). Communicative Planning: Urban Redevelopment at King’s Cross. In Antipode. Mar2009, Vol. 41 Issue 2, p348-370

- Moore, R. (2012). London King's Cross concourse-review. , Sunday 18 March 2012 [Online] Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/mar/18/london-kings-cross-concourse-review

- Woodman, E. (2012). All Change at King’s. In Building Design. 3/23/2012, Issue 2006, p10-15.

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Community and

Communicative Planning: UrbanRedevelopment at King’s Cross,LondonSt°ale Holgersen and H°avard HaarstadAntipode. Mar2009, Vol. 41 Issue 2, p348-370

It is officed-led project. The project seems not to keep the history or biography of London, it dose emphasise on some landmark architectures. (Campkin, 2004)The project which is developer-led will result in a formal unban logic from corporate interests and the easy answer are ‘mixed-used’ and ‘diverse’ (Campkin, 2004)

Class- sensitivity did not take into account properly, the consequence is the project

separate from the community.( Holgersen and Haarstad, 2009)

From the outside, the form of the new building establishes no particular relationship with the things around it and contributes to the making of a formless no-man's-land between King's Cross, St Pancras and various preserved oddments(Moore, 2012)

However, as is clear from theexisting arrangements, theconcourse of a railway stationcan be housed serviceablyenough in a flat-ceilinged space,4.5m high. It is to Network Rail'sconsiderable credit, therefore.that it has recognised the need tolook beyond flinctional necessityand to reclaim for King's Cross,the sense of civic ambition thathas long been obscured.And perhaps the mostsignificant difference of all is thatwhere Foster's roof bears on thesurrounding fabric, McAslan's isentirely self-supporting.

Building Design; 3/23/2012, Issue 2006, p10-15, 6p

Article by Ellis WoodmanARCHITECTURAL design

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/mar/18/london-kings-cross-concourse-reviewLondon King's Cross concourse – reviewRowan Moore, Sunday 18 March 2012

Urban Image and Legibility in King's Cross, London. By: Campkin, Ben. Advances in Art, Urban Futures. 2004, Vol. 4, p63-79

Class, Community andCommunicative Planning: UrbanRedevelopment at King’s Cross,LondonSt°ale Holgersen and H°avard HaarstadAntipode. Mar2009, Vol. 41 Issue 2, p348-370