King's Cross railway station in London opened in 1852 as the southern terminus of the Great Northern Railway, designed by the architect Lewis Cubitt with a plain brick facade dominated by twin arched train sheds and a central clock tower, a deliberately restrained design in contrast to the ornate Gothic frontage of the neighboring St Pancras station. A major renovation completed in 2012 added a semicircular departures concourse to the station's western side, covered by a lattice steel and glass roof engineered with the firm Arup and designed by the architects John McAslan and Partners, opening up a public square in front of the original Cubitt facade for the first time in over a century. The station is also known for the fictional Platform Nine and Three-Quarters from the Harry Potter novels, marked today by a sign and luggage trolley installation that draws visitors.
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