KX200, Pentonville Road, London

Architect	Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Date Built	2007
Location	200 Pentonville Road
Description
KX200 is a development at 200 Pentonville Road that involved the redevelopment of a pair of disused 14-storey office towers. The project added a four-storey podium as well as two additional floors to each tower. The completed building provides 844 single and double occupancy student units, 14 social rental apartments, 48 market rental apartments, as well as Cat A office space and ground floor retail units. The arcitects say that they have, "... transformed three existing buildings on Pentonville Road, Kings Cross into a vibrant mix of student accommodation, private and social housing, retail and office space. The reclad towers animate the Kings Cross skyline, whilst the lower podium does its part to regenerate Pentonville Road by reconnecting the site with the street .... Driving the design was the desire to create different architecture for the two elements of the project – distinguishing podium from towers through materiality. The re-used concrete frames of the office towers were re-clad in lightweight glazed unitised curtain walling, re-inventing the traditional sober suit of corporate architecture with a variegated, playful pattern of blue shades. The façade has helped to establish the project as a memorable component of the King’s Cross skyline"