Key Details

Overview

Belgrove House is a new 26,000m2 office and laboratory development in the Knowledge Quarter on Euston Road, London NW1.

The site will be home to a new life science Discovery Hub and UK HQ as a centre of excellence for MSD UK.

Designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, the 10-storey building will have life sciences research laboratories at the lower levels and HQ offices above. There will also be a publicly accessible café, auditorium space and educational space for the community.

The main door gives access to building occupants and members of the public. A second entrance on Argyle Square provides access to the café/events space at ground level and into the lower-ground level auditorium.

Levels 1-3
Lab-enabled, providing 4 metres from floor to soffit. The main lab space focuses on King’s Cross Square, which allows a view out onto the square, and provides a window into the research labs.

Levels 4-5
The fourth and fifth floors are set back slightly, articulating the building massing and providing planted terraces for building occupants.

Levels 5-9
Floors five to nine provide a generous open-plan office environment appropriate to HQ use.

In line with the low-carbon strategy, the team recycles and reuses existing building materials on the site where possible, such as bricks where these are salvageable. The reuse of these materials will reduce the embodied carbon of the new building.

The development was approved along with the affordable housing scheme at Acorn House.

History

2020 September - Planning application submitted for the redevelopment of Belgrove House as a part 5 part 10 storey building plus 2 basement levels for use as office and research and laboratory floorspace; with cafe, flexible retail and office floorspace at ground floor; an auditorium at basement; incorporating step free entrance to Kings Cross Underground station in place of two entrance boxes along Euston Road; together with terraces at fourth and fifth floor levels, servicing, cycle storage and facilities, refuse storage and other ancillary and associated works. This application is linked to redevelopment of Acorn House, 314-320 Euston Road (ref 2020/3880/P). Camden Council ref. no. 2020/3881/P.