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Google\u2019s \u00a31bn headquarters in King\u2019s Cross is finally set to open this summer, 10 years after it was originally set to complete.<\/p>\n
The tech giant will start moving staff into the 330m-long groundscraper within the next few months including members of its DeepMind team, a UK-based subsidiary which provides research on AI.<\/p>\n
The Heatherwick Studio and BIG -designed office has also been named Platform 37, in reference to both the neighbouring King\u2019s Cross station and a historic moment in the development of AI called Move 37.<\/p>\n
In a blog published yesterday, DeepMind chief executive Demis Hassabis also revealed that the 10-storey building will contain a ground floor public space called the AI Exchange.<\/p>\n
The opening comes almost 13 years after Google first unveiled an initial set of proposals for the prime north London site designed by AHMM.<\/p>\n
This scheme was set to be built by BAM but was scrapped just two months after gaining planning approval in November 2013, with a planned redesign pushing back projected completion from 2016 to 2017.<\/p>\n
It later emerged Google was undertaking a global review of its major developments which would see the scheme put on ice for the next three years before a redrawn set of proposals designed by Heatherwick Studio and BIG, which had replaced AHMM as lead architects, was revealed in 2016.<\/p>\n
Lendlease was confirmed as the main contractor on the new scheme, then named KGX1, the following year with work on site by Laing O-Rourke-owned piling contractor Expanded finally beginning in 2018.<\/p>\n
But two years later, with 200 workers on site, a covid outbreak at the beginning of the pandemic made it one of the first major construction sites in the capital to close with work grinding to a halt for three months before reopening in June 2020.<\/p>\n
Then, in 2024, it was caught up in the collapse of ISG, which had been appointed the previous year to fit out the 300,000sq ft office with the firm replaced by Structure Tone.<\/p>\n
Once opened, the office is set to be a key addition to the cluster of research spaces in King\u2019s Cross known as the Knowledge Quarter. Its interiors feature expansive triple-height spaces, a rooftop garden and a large two-storey public space at street level beneath the building which will contain a series of bespoke timber retail units.<\/p>\n
Move 37, the term which has inspired the building\u2019s new name, refers to a pivotal moment in a match of the game Go between world champion Lee Sae Do and Google\u2019s DeepMind system in 2016, which is considered by Google to have heralded the modern era of AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s \u00a31bn headquarters in King\u2019s Cross is finally set to open this summer, 10 years after it was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-474556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}