Thomas Heatherwick's studio has completed a shopping centre at London's King's Cross, formed of two converted 19th-century coal warehouses that reach out and touch one another.
Heatherwick Studio created Coal Drops Yard by converting and extending two Victorian industrial buildings that were built to store and transfer coal, delivered by rail from northern England, across London.
They are connected by a sinuous roof, designed to make it look like the old buildings were physically stretched towards each other.
"Our interest in our studio is the human dimension of any project that we work on, whether its a bus, a bridge, a ship or whatever," said Heatherwick.
"It struck us that the issue was bigger that two bridges. It felt to us the challenge was to create a heart that would hold you and glue everything together, and make you more likely stay. The heart factor seems key."
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