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Town Hall By Bottaccio

HOW TOWN HALL LEFT ITS LANE

Built for local government in the 1930s, Town Hall now brings civic life, culture and large-scale events under one roof.

Town Hall was built between 1934 and 1937 as the civic and democratic centre of St Pancras – a place for council meetings, public services, ceremonies and community life.

Almost ninety years later, those functions remain. But the building now has another life alongside them.

Following a major restoration, 60,000 square feet of the Grade II-listed landmark has been reimagined for events by Bottaccio, with interiors by Tom Dixon. Vision Hall, Inner Space and The Network bring conferences, performances, dinners and gatherings into spaces that still carry the scale and character of the original building.

That overlap is what makes Town Hall particularly suited to Future Forum.

It sits in the middle of King’s Cross and the Knowledge Quarter, surrounded by technology companies, universities, cultural institutions and research organisations – while remaining, quite literally, a place built for people to come together.

Town Hall never stopped being civic space. It simply widened the definition of what can happen inside one.