Rolling Stock Yard is a new office development in Kings Cross.

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The client’s vision for the site – just north of Granary Square and Coal Drops Yard – centred around creating a new destination for creative enterprise which builds on Tileyard’s growing cultural community in the area. They wanted the building to have a strong connection with post-industrial King’s Cross, and celebrate contemporary architecture.

The approach established a strong aesthetic drawn from the historic roots of the area, and created generous and light filled workspaces with inspiring communal spaces to bring people together.

The facades feature expressed black metal horizontal profiles and vertical timber fins, emulating railway tracks and sleepers. Perforated metal screens to the office levels offer privacy and shade during the day, and emanate a diffused glow at night.

The industrial rail and freight aesthetic continues internally.  The reception area features a back-lit perforated screen made from the same façade cladding system as the exterior. This feature wall has two openings, the reception desk and a bar, which mimic the interior of a freight container.  Lined with plywood, these niches bring warmth to the space.

Connecting the ground and mezzanine levels on the far wall is a 12m x 6m mural by artist Barry Reigate, commissioned by the client to animate the space. At the top of the building, the roof terrace has linear granite pavers and staggered feature lights representing the movement of trains at night and provides far reaching views of the city.

The perforated screens are incorporated internally as a light box to the core walls at each level, the mesh provides an attractive glow to each unit.   This same mesh is used on the external signage of the building, and on the wall of the reception space.