King's Place
Kings Place from York Way
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| Address | 90, York Way London |
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| Designation | Grade A Commercial |
| Type | Classical / Contemporary music, Arts / Cultural venue, Spoken Word, commercial office space, restaurant |
| Capacity | Hall 1: 420 seats Hall 2: 220 seats |
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| Opened | 2008 |
| Architect | Dixon Jones |
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Kings Place is a building in London’s Kings Cross area, providing music and visual arts venues combined with seven floors of office space. It has housed the editorial offices of The Guardian newspaper since December 2008 and is the former headquarters of Network Rail. Kings Place is also the London office of CGI, the global IT and management consultancy company.
Kings Place was a commercial development providing 26,000 sq m of office space. Construction on the site began in 2005 and was completed in summer 2008; the opening festival started on 1 October 2008. In late 2008 the building became the home for The Guardian and The Observer newspapers.
Kings Place houses the first new build public concert hall to be built in central London since the completion of the Barbican Concert hall over 25 years ago in 1982 (Cadogan Hall and LSO St Luke's were adapted from old buildings in that period).
It has a range of facilities for performance, exhibition and education. The music, arts and restaurant areas are arranged around public spaces which form a central hub to the building. The arts facilities include free access to a range of commercial art galleries. Kings Place is home to Aurora Orchestra as its Resident Orchestra, and also regularly hosts a number of other Artistic Associates including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and London Sinfonietta. The opera company OperaUpClose announced that it will move from its present Islington pub location, the King's Head, to Kings Place in 2015.
Kings Place Music Foundation is the charity set up to run the music spaces at Kings Place. Gifted with the performing and back of house spaces on a long lease for a peppercorn rent, KPMF aims to deliver a very rich and busy music programme financed by ticket sales and the hire of the Kings Place facilities for rehearsals, recordings and conferences.
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