Kings Cross Office Space

Renting office space in Kings Cross is deciding to base a business in a rich location with a unique legacy and distinctive modern-day characteristics. As Edwin Heathcote declared in The Financial Times [Kings Cross is] “The perfect mix of grittiness and shininess, simultaneously a symbol of London’s industrial and engineering past and the creative present”.

Best known for its railway station that opened in 1852 to further enhance the Regent’s Canal’s links with the rest of the UK, it was key in bringing goods and industry to London and thrived during the Industrial Revolution.

Designed by Lewis Cubitt, it took its name from the King’s Cross building, a monument to King George IV that stood in the area and was demolished seven years before the station opened.

Today, the station is one of the busiest in London and indeed the UK. It and the area surrounding it are referred to as Kings X, Kings +, and London KX, which derive from its National Rail station code of KGX.

What you see at Kings Cross today is the result of an exceptionally successful regeneration project that commenced in the late 2000s when Camden London Borough Council approved a £500 million restoration plan announced by Network Rail.

The station was restored and modernised, and the land behind Kings Cross station was developed as a new district named King’s Cross Central (KCX). This district provides 5,000,000 square feet of offices, around 2,000 new homes, new streets, squares, and parks, shops, galleries, exhibition spaces, cinemas, gyms, bars, restaurants, schools, and a university when the University of the Arts London took space in 2011.

Kings Cross Central earned its own brand-new postcode, N1C, in 2010, and the regeneration project was awarded the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage and Europa Nostra Award in 2013, among many other accolades.

Today, the 67-acre district is buzzing with high-end modern amenities in a space that nods to its past. For instance, Coal Drops Yard, the 19^th Century coal drop buildings at the station, has been sympathetically reincarnated as a space with fashionable boutiques and highly popular eateries.

There is also both a square and a park named after Lewis Cubbitt.

Kings Cross Central continues to be endorsed by high-profile office occupiers from a wide range of sectors, including Havas, Meta, Sony, and Universal Music Group.

The district attained further validation when Google chose King’s Boulevard in the district in which to build its 1 million square foot KGX1 office building.

The new Google headquarters building topped out in 2021 and signified the firm’s first wholly owned and designed building outside of the United States.

The iconic building is longer than The Shard, is tall, and is nicknamed a ‘Landscraper’ because it is just 11 storeys tall yet provides space for 7,000 Google employees.

The development used more timber than any building in the UK and more steel than The Shard.

The new building has a 2.5-acre roof space with over 200 trees, 40,000 plants and shrubs, and a walking track for employees to stretch their legs on.

The building opened in 2024 and joined Google’s other existing building at 6 Pancras Square.

Businesses can choose from a wide range of high-end prime office space to rent at Kings Cross in buildings such as The Gridiron Building and The Stanley Building and in nearby locations such as Euston Road, Gray’s Inn Road, and York Way.

These buildings also offer modern, flexible office space and workspace solutions, such as private serviced offices, self-contained managed office suites and floors, and coworking space options. All offer first-class amenities and are available on agile contracts with all-inclusive pricing.