Behold London’s ‘landscraper’! Google’s new UK HQ – as long as the Shard is tall

Google’s new UK HQ in King’s Cross, London. The structure is as long as the Shard is tall. Photograph: Martin Godwin/The Guardian

A lunchtime basketball game, a walk around the rooftop exercise trail or 40 winks in a “nap pod”: just some of the workplace perks that are a step closer for Google’s London employees in what will be their new home.

The US tech firm celebrated the “topping out” of its new UK headquarters as the final beam was hoisted into place on Friday, marking the end of major construction of its horizontal skyscraper, nicknamed the “landscraper”.