Google moves ahead with plans for a massive new London HQ

2016-11-15T14:21:00-05:00

More than three years ago, Google announced plans to build a massive “landscraper” headquarters in London. But after switching architects from AHMM—whose plans were deemed “too boring"—to Thomas Heatherwick, and following the chaos of Brexit, the plans were up in the air. Now, the Guardian reports that Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichai has announced that plans were going ahead.

The headquarters will be built in London’s King’s Cross, in between King’s Cross station and St. Pancras. Like with the plans for Google’s new Silicon Valley headquarters, Bjarke Ingels Group will collaborate with Heatherwick Studio on the design.

"From the beginning, the project to give Google a new home in King's Cross has been extraordinary. Rather than impose a universal style on Google’s buildings in the UK and the USA, we have tried to create an interestingness that fits the scale and the community of King’s Cross,” BIG and Heatherwick Studio state in a joint press statement. “The Silicon Valley star...

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Google moves ahead with plans for a massive new London HQ