Argent has opened the doors of a luxury flats scheme at its redevelopment in King’s Cross.
The Squire & Partners-designed job was completed last year by main contractor McLaren and a project team including structural engineer Ramboll, QS Gardiner & Theobald and interior designer Conran and Partners.
The 11-storey block features 61 homes and has been called Luma, a name which the architect said was chosen because of the emphasis on light in its design.
Facing onto Lewis Cubitt Park, homes range from studio flats on its lower floors to a pair of 2,200sq ft penthouses, known as ‘Dawn’ and ‘Dusk’, split across three levels on its upper storeys, while its middle levels house one and a half storey apartments featuring mezzanine living spaces.
Squire & Partners has completed a 61-home development in London’s King’s Cross.
The 11-storey block has been called Luma, a name which the architect said was chosen because of the emphasis on light in its design.
Facing on to Lewis Cubitt Park, the homes range from studio flats on its lower floors to a pair of 2,200sq ft penthouses, known as ‘Dawn’ and ‘Dusk’, split across three levels on its upper storeys, while its middle levels house ‘1.5’ storey apartments featuring mezzanine living spaces.
The design features repeating latticed patterns on both its facades and throughout its interior, a motif said to have been inspired by the converging railway tracks of the nearby rail hubs.
Squire & Partners completes apartment block for Argent at King’s Cross
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The 61-apartment block, with interior design by Conran and Partners, is sited between the green spaces of Lewis Cubitt Park and Jellicoe Gardens in the King’s Cross Central Development
The Squire & Partners-designed block, named LUMA, is intended to echo the former industrial character of King’s Cross in its form of stepped warehouse-style buildings with the façade’s patterning in part inspired by converging railway tracks.
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This pattern is also picked up in decorative lattice screens, bas-relief aluminium and concrete panels inside and outside the building. Bronze-coloured splayed bays with balconies overlook Lewis Cubitt Park, while retail and restaurant units at ground level flank the entrance.
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Alison Brooks Architects has created a landmark structure in the emerging area of Kings Cross in London, part of its Central Masterplan. The proposed mixed-use urban block containing 158 dwellings will reinforce the neighborhood’s “
unique sense of place and celebrate its emerging and historic contexts”.
Emerging as one of the most animated and inclusive places in London, Kings Cross will receive “an equally joyful building”, as projects architects Alison Brooks state. Located strategically to the north of Lewis Cubitt Park, the intervention entitled Cadence puts in place a mixed-use urban block that responds to its concept. Imagined as a “