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in 2012, this will make way for a new public space, again being designed by Stanton Williams. The entrance, meanwhile, has been shifted over to the western side of the station facing St Pancras, featuring a western concourse with wave-form canopy beside a rejuvenated Great Northern Hotel. Beneath this canopy, Network Rail has commissioned more retail facilities, bars and restaurants whilst Station Square, a new public area immediately outside, leads on to the German Gymnasium building and main Boulevard up into the King’s Cross Central site and over a land bridge across the canal into its northern half. St Pancras itself has already been fully updated to coincide
with the arrival of the Eurostar, with new shopping facilities and entrances, along with the famed ‘longest champagne bar in the world’. Next on the list will be the full re-opening of the St Pancras Chambers project above, which the Manhattan Loft
Corporation has been working on for almost a decade now, with its restored interiors adding significantly to the luxury flats already open. The British Library was another early pioneer for the area’s
heady sense of promise when it commissioned Colin St John Wilson to design its new building just west of St Pancras, which opened in 1997. But now on the land immediately to the rear of the scheme at Brill Place a new, similarly world- leading educational establishment will add even further to the prestige, and community groups are also hoping it brings something for the surrounding area. The UKCRMI is a unique venture designed to lift London’s medical research cre- dentials into the stratosphere. A partnership between the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK and University College London, the facility will allow pioneering research into common diseases and ailments such
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