BIG and Heatherwick Studio have been selected as the architects for the new Google Headquarters at their King?s Cross campus in London. The ten story, 650,000 square foot building will be the first wholly owned and designed Google facility to built outside of the United States, and is part of a campus expansion plan that will eventually contain offices for 7,000 employees.

Heatherwick Studio's design for the new Coal Drops Yard shopping area at King's Cross. Image © ForbesMassie

BIG and Heatherwick Studio have been selected as the architects for the new Google Headquarters at their King?s Cross campus in London. The ten story, 650,000 square foot building will be the first wholly owned and designed Google facility to built outside of the United States, and is part of a campus expansion plan that will eventually contain offices for 7,000 employees.The team was awarded the commission after an original scheme by AHMM architects was put on hold in November 2013. Images of the new designs have yet to be released."From the beginning, the project to give Google a new home in King's Cross has been extraordinary,? said Bjarke Ingels and Thomas Heatherwick in a joint statement.?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. The Silicon Valley startup garage meets the London train sheds in a building that couples clarity with ...