Gasholders London

London

Architect Wilkinson Eyre

Client King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership

Contractor Carillion

Submitted by Wilkinson Eyre

Gasholders may be a diminishing presence on the British urban landscape, but this radical project puts some of those remaining to ingenious reuse. The triplet of grade II-listed but disused gasholders in the centre of the massive King’s

Cross Central regeneration site in the middle of London have been transformed into three conjoined cylindrical residential blocks containing 145 flats. The original cast-iron latticework drums are structurally independent of the new buildings, but are carefully interwoven through and around them to create a landmark contemporary luxury residential development that resonates powerfully with the raw industrial heritage of its host structures.

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