King's Cross Square Re-Design

King's Cross Square is part of the larger redevelopment of King's Cross Station along Euston Road in LB Camden. Last year, Camden Council and land owner Network Rail announced an international, two-stage design competition. The first phase invited applicants to submit credentials and relevant experience. Of this group, six were shortlisted to work up concept propositions, for which an honorarium of £6000 will be paid.

Among the six shortlisted teams included Gehl Architects (Landscape Projects, Martin Stockley Associates, Simon Fenton Partnership, Four 23, and Hansen & Henneberg), Martha Schwartz Partners (Buro Happold, Squint/Opera, Davis Langdon, and Quatro) and Field Operations (Buro Happold, Concepto, Macgregor Smith, and Tomato).

The wining team will be announced in the summer.

Gehl Architects is most recently known for working with the New York City Department of Transportation on the "Green Light for Midtown" pilot project which will create the first pedestrian street in Manhattan by closing off blocks to traffic in Times Square and Herald Square.

Field Operations led by James Corner, won the international competition for the High Line (an abandoned section of elevated freight railroad along the lower west side of Manhattan between 34th Street and Gansevoort Street) that will turn it into an elevated greenway similar to the Promenade Plantee in Paris.