People walking near a modern building with outdoor seating, blue umbrellas, and trees.

Granary Square Pavilion
Camden, London

KEY FACTS
  • Client: King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership

  • Project Cost: Undisclosed

  • Status: Completed 2019

  • Category: Public

AWARDS
  • Camden Design 2022 | Highly commended

  • Civic Trust 2021 | Winner

  • NLA 2021, placemaking | Winner

“Real quality and delightful piece of commercial architecture. Contextually right.”

— The Civic Trust Awards Judges 2021

Night view of a modern building with large windows, a parked white van on the rooftop, and a person walking past. The building has a contemporary design and illuminated interior spaces.

Granary Square Pavilion incorporates a retail unit, public WCs and public access lift connecting Granary Square to Lower Stable Street on a prominent site opposite the Granary Building and Thomas Heatherwick’s new retail complex at Coal Drops Yard in King’s Cross. The roof of the pavilion extends the public space of Granary Square completing the western corner of the space.

The pavilion has a decorative cast iron façade that extends up to the form a balustrade to Granary Square. The pattern of the cast iron is inspired by the molecular structure of coal referencing the site’s industrial heritage.

The pavilion is one of three public realm interventions we have added at King’s Cross together with Gasholder Park and Jellicoe Gardens.

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Metallic building facade with honeycomb pattern
Close-up of hexagonal metal grid with a textured surface
Close-up of red geometric pattern with triangular shapes forming a textured surface.
Close-up of a metal mesh with hexagonal openings
Worker pouring molten metal in a foundry
A tall, modern architectural structure with vertical ridges and a decorative pattern at the top against a clear blue sky.

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