Coal Drops Yard in London
With an emblematic roof sculpture, the newly opened Coal Drops Yard shopping centre in Kings Cross, London, invites visitors to drop in, shop and stroll. Two elongated 150 m and 120 m long 19th century warehouses lying at a slight angle to one another underwent extensive renovation and conversion works in the realisation of this project. London’s coal was originally brought here by train for storage and distribution. In recent decades, the increasingly disused buildings housed workshops and clubs. The objective of the redevelopment was to turn this somewhat wasted land back into a living part of the city, link the two buildings together and create a roofed public courtyard that can be used for concerts and other events, while retaining as much of the original building fabric as possible.
