S1 King?s Cross Building, Pancras Square Headquarters Architect, KX Project Image
S1 King?s Cross Building
London Commercial Development, England, UK ? design by Mossessian Architecture
4 Sep 2017
S1 Building at Kings Cross
Design: Mossessian Architecture
S1 Building in London King’s Cross
King?s Cross reveals design of next office building, known as S1

With construction of its ?S2? building in King?s Cross now well underway, Mossessian Architecture has now submitted a planning application for ?S1?, a 26,172 m2 office building which sits adjacent to, and completes the compositional form of, building S2.
S1 is located on the corner of Handyside Street and Canal Reach. Both buildings will be clad in tuff stone, black volcanic lava stone from Armenia, a first for buildings of this scale in the UK.
?King?s Cross is one of today?s templates for urban placemaking, so our priority was to develop spaces that both convey a strong identity and continuum with the public realm? says Michel Mossessian. ?The key is to acknowledge that there is a fine line between public spaces and tenants? private realms, from the ground up to the rooftops of the buildings. This second building works to engage the space between the two, making the spaces hang together and generating a strong and engaging urban and spatial character for both the eventual tenant and the visiting public.?

Sitting next to each other, buildings S1 and S2 respond to each other to form an urban piece where the mass of...