Date: 18/03/2012

The big metal roof is as deeply ingrained in British architectural tradition as thatched cottages and stone churches. The idea was invented for greenhouses, then applied to the great Victorian railway stations and to the Crystal Palace, that wondrous achievement of scale and ingenuity, whose mythic power is made all the greater by the fact that it no longer exists. Big metal roofs speak of confidence and boldness and of the time of this country's greatest industrial might.

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London King's Cross concourse “ review

Guardian

King's Cross's new roof is magnificent. It's just a shame it sits so uncomfortably with its neighbouring buildings, writes Rowan Moore