The 7,000 sq m public square project forms the last phase of the £500m station redevelopment.
Murphy starts to tear down the capital’s longest surviving temporary buildings this week at the front of the station to reveal Lewis Cubbitt’s magnificent Grade I listed Victorian station façade and London’s newest public space – King’s Cross Square.
Architect Stanton Williams’ plan will see the existing 1970s concourse extension removed to reveal an open space, which will be 50% bigger than Leicester Square, and will be paved with a combination of Yorkstone and granite.
Patrick Shaw, Murphy senior project manager, said: “Delivering a scheme at a station which handles 47m passengers per year requires a carefully considered approach to passenger flow management.
“We have deployed innovative methods and placed the station users at the heart of the planning in order to ensure safe and easily navigable access, in particular, to and from rail and underground platforms.”