RIBA Stirling Prize 2024 shortlist: Kings Cross Masterplan
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- King's Cross Masterplan by Allies and Morrison and Porphyrios Associates is shortlisted for RIBA's Stirling Prize 2024.
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A successful piece of city-making: 20 years in the making, the redevelopment of King’s Cross is the result of remarkable reintegration and regeneration of this former industrial wasteland in the heart of London. New streets, squares, offices, schools, university facilities and accommodation sit alongside thoughtfully restored historic structures, transforming the area into a thriving hub of activity.
Further celebrating the site’s industrial legacy, the architects have reopened the Regent’s Canal to the public and created an ‘urban beach’ - a vibrant, valuable addition to London’s public realm and another clever thread in stitching a previously cut-off part of the city back into the wider urban fabric.
Presented by the Royal Institute of British Architects since 1996, the Stirling Prize recognises the UK’s best new architecture.
I work for a company in Brussels who is doing the same here (tour & taxis). Same as King's Cross it is a great place to be. This is how cities should be build ! Every time I'm in London I make sure to go to King's Cross. It is my favourite place in the city.
I live locally and have to say its an extraordinarily relaxing and interesting part of the city. Of course the gritty clublands of the eighties and nineties were fantastic but their time had come. People move on, I'm glad London isn't preserved in aspic like Paris or more disturbingly, Berghain.
Had to move 400 miles because nowhere to live in Hertfordshire.
Old structures are pieces of history, of human civilization, I agree on you guys, they deserve to be saved. Zaha Hadid twisted our minds building up structures like airplanes, then why feeling sorry using alternative materials? I love a lot resin and carbon fiber, give them old structures a brans new look that might ..raise them precious and worthy again. There are new solar panels which can raise each structure independent or even more, a nice resource of electrical power. Being creative is a golden asset for everybody, mostly for realtors and real estate companies, yeah, you can bet on it guys. Kids games to play are always so inspiring, when LEGO kind of structures can become...new ways of building residences. Let them look like a videogame inside an abbandoned warehouse or industrial structure. Let it people find the joy to live in a Disneyland, why not? Seems to me... funny, don't you think ❤🎉❤
Web connection is giving now the huge opportunity to be supportive, like fans, support & encourage music stars, fashion designers or actors, home designers but mostly architects, teaching people how to invert their homes on to green resources. If we care to save this paradise on earth we have to get all involved, where to add the winter garden, the tea room, the florist lounge, the brasilian jungle for guests, I would add every window another green house, every roof and every empty wall. Have you ever noticed, onions need soil as big as a human punch, they sit in a flower pot, they are funny, vegetals must turn back to people lives no matter if they are only for refreshing atmosphere, for the scent or just home decorations, only united we can make the difference. We all know now how pollution is increasing the violent wind, storms and tornados, let's try to prevent them. It's not only me the one going crazy about water falls, water canals, water ways and fountains, let the water bring down to earth the industrial ashes before they raise up and create the nasty smog over our heads, yeah, try to guess what guys...architects are our salvation, do you realize this? 🎉❤🎉
Went to amazing warehouse parties and clubs in the '80s & '90s there...nice to look at now...yet gentrified....like most of London, the soul has been torn out...
Bright Yellow painted Brick Walls 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋
will do.
The static screen shot simply told me to stay away from this episode. Yikes what I would have missed. Next time I fly into Europe/ train to London- definitely on my list of spending time there. Maybe the place to go when London proper becomes too much…
the new architecture is too bland and modernist, but at least they kept the old buildings
I can't help but feel like this isn't the better way to make a space functional and beautiful.
Everywhere you look is grey, and cold. I don't understand why modern British architecture is evolving this way...
the only thing I don't like is the curved modern roof they built over what I think might be the shopping centre, awful shape, there's a reason why this shape is not a classic