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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn

New pictures of £1bn Google HQ bringing retail parade, community space and rooftop running trail to King’s Cross

The one million sq ft building stretches 300m alongside railway lines south of the Regent’s Canal

(Picture: Handout)

Updated plans submitted by Google for its £1 billion “groundscraper” headquarter building in Kings Cross show that it will have 250 metres of shop fronts and a community events space.

Construction of the huge one million sq ft building — designed by Thomas Heatherwick and Danish architects BIG — is now well advanced ahead of topping out later this year, with completion expected by 2024.

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