Lendlease has confirmed it has been selected to build Google’s new headquarters building at King’s Cross.
The new building, designed by Heatherwick Studios and BIG, in collaboration with BDP, will be home to 4,000 Googlers on completion.
Joe Borrett, Google’s EMEA director of real estate and construction, said: “Lendlease emerged from a rigorous selection process as the best choice as our construction partner at King’s Cross because we felt it shared many of our own values – a desire to challenge industry norms, a focus on innovation, and a highly collaborative approach.”
Neil Martin, managing director of Lendlease’s construction business in Europe, said: “We are absolutely delighted to be appointed by Google on this landmark project. With our global construction experience, we are confident this will be as distinctive as everything else Google does.”
Google’s new UK headquarters has been redesigned by US-Danish architect BIG and Thomas Heatherwick after Google decided to redraw its plans for the site. The executive architect is BDP. The job has an estimated construction cost of £350m.
AHMM originally won the project four years ago but it was formally confirmed last spring that the practice was off the job.
The original AHMM-designed scheme was going to be built by BAM, which did not bid the second time around.
The 330m-long 10-storey groundscraper at King’s Cross will cover 650,000 sq ft of office space at what will be Google’s third building at developer Argent’s 67-acre regeneration scheme.
The firm currently occupies 380,000 sq ft at the completed 6 Pancras Square and construction on a second building which the firm is leasing located further back at the King’s Cross site is due to be completed by Carillion in 2018.
