Kings Place - Limestone and Glass

Following a limited architectural competition, Dixon Jones was appointed as the architect for Kings Place. The brief was complex and subtle: it was to be a large building of far higher quality than the normal spec office development. Dixon Jones has created a building that has an air of grace, openness and dignity – and has added to its authority with an extraordinary attention to detail. The building had to be durable, not only in terms of the quality of the build and materials, but in its design. It had to be spatially generous, since a ‘loose fit’ building would allow for future needs. It also had to be environmentally impeccable. In addition, the architecture had to achieve unity while providing a home for an unconventional mix of commercial and cultural uses. And, most importantly, it had to fit into a local urban architecture which is not uniform in scale.