Architectural Philosophy
Following a limited architectural competition, Dixon Jones was appointed as the architect for Kings Place. The brief was complex and subtle: it was to be a large building of far higher quality than the normal spec office development. The building had to be durable, not only in terms of quality of the build materials, but in its design. It had to be spatially generous and environmentally impeccable. Most importantly, it had to fit into a local urban architecture which is not uniform in scale.
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