Disappointingly the new steel and glass canopy along the front of the building cuts through the clean lines of the frontage and I question why the canopy could not have been positioned higher up so as not to cut through the top of the arches.
The square itself is a big improvement on the building that was there before, but it's not finished and was already beginning to look 'used' with litter (no bins) and drink stains across the square. Good to see some trees but not sure about the raised planters and using gravel around the base of the trees was not a good idea as it gets easily displaced.
Generally the whole area is looking much better and the new Kings Cross concourse is eye opening covered with the largest single span structure in Europe.
