Coal Drops Yard at King's Cross is a shopping complex made from two Victorian coal sheds, redesigned by Thomas Heatherwick of Heatherwick Studio, with Arup. Argent, the site developer, appointed him in 2014. Plans were approved in December 2015, and construction began in February 2016. It opened on October 26, 2018, at a cost of £100 million. The article names no style. BAM Nuttall built it, and the article calls it privately owned public space.
The eastern sheds date from 1851 and the western from 1860. Heatherwick joined them with a kissing roof, a twisted steel-tube roof clad in Welsh slate from the same seam as the originals. The roof is 115 feet (35 m) wide, supported by 54 steel columns. Shopping space totals 9,290 square meters.
It won RIBA London and National Awards in 2019. The article gives no hours.
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