Bjarke Ingels Group and Thomas Heatherwick have been confirmed as the designers of Google's new London headquarters at King's Cross, following rumours of their involvement.
Google's headquarters will occupy a 330-metre stretch of land between Regent's Canal and King's Cross station, where it will form part of a larger campus at King's Cross that is to include offices by Mossessian Architecture.
The ten-storey block by Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick will be Google's first purpose-built building outside America, where the duo is already at work on the company's Californian HQ.
BIG and Heatherwick Studio revealed new plans for Google's California campus earlier this year, after being forced to modify their ambitious design to fit a significantly smaller site "From the beginning, the project to give Google a new home in King's Cross has been extraordinary," said Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick, who are yet to unveil their designs for the site.
"Rather than impose a universal style on Google's buildings in the UK and the USA, we have tried to create an interestingness that fits the scale and the community of King's Cross," they added. "The Silicon Valley startup garage meets the London train sheds in a building that couples clarity with eccentricity and anchors innovation with heritage."
Google's 7,000 London staff will be brought together at the King's Cross campus, where they will occupy almost 93,000 square metres of office ...