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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 56and 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 wasextraordinary refurbished, made King’s cross St. Pancras is one of the mostsignificant transportation interchange for both local and international travel.Moreover, there are couple of billion pounds has been spent to improve localtransportation. One kilometres of cannel and natural park land beside also hadreestablished.

2012 King’s cross as a cultural powerhouse

The middle of the side in the northern part is the Granary Complex, which is the newhome of arts college Central Saint Martins. Many old buildings have been refurbishedand Gasholder No. 8, which is Grade II listed building, will be re-establish (2013) as alandmark of King’s cross site. All mixed use will fully function in this period. TheEnergy Centre will provide 100 per cent of heat requirements in the projectemphasising 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 andcommercial. A huge number of retail, restaurant and working space across the sitewill 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 bedelivered. The complete picture of the place for living, work and shop will be fulfill atthe end.

(Clementi, 2012)

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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 thedevelopment-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, theconsequence 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 relationshipwith the things around it and contributes to the making of a formless no-man's-landbetween 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 berecognizable, 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: UrbanRedevelopment 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, Issue2006, p10-15 .