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For decades, King's Cross was an area of London to hurry through. Run down, a bit dangerous (everything from drunks to IRA bombs), it was a place where you caught a train, a tube or a bus and didn't hang around. But large projects – the British Library, St Pancras station, the Granary Place restoration and the opening of Kings Place (home of the Guardian) – along with a tenacious community campaign – have turned the area around. Yesterday, with union flags flying, Boris Johnson opened the latest phase, King's Cross Square, in front of Lewis Cubitt's newly restored 1852 station facade. The scuzzy 1970s concourse on Euston Road has gone, replaced by John McAslan's spectacular canopy on the west side of the station, through which tourists trek to be photographed at platform 9¾. Outside in the lunchtime sunshine yesterday, city workers and passengers sat chatting on the stylish new stone benches. King's Cross – it's a pleasure. For decades, King's Cross was an area of London to hurry through. Run down, a bit dangerous (everything from drunks to IRA bombs), it was a place where you caught a train, a tube or a bus and didn't hang around. But large projects – the British Library, St Pancras station, the Granary Place restoration and the opening of Kings Place (home of the Guardian) – along with a tenacious community campaign – have turned the area around. On Thursday, with union flags flying, Boris Johnson opened the latest phase, King's Cross Square, in front of Lewis Cubitt's newly restored 1852 station facade. The scuzzy 1970s concourse on Euston Road has gone, replaced by John McAslan's spectacular canopy on the west side of the station, through which tourists trek to be photographed at platform 9¾. Outside in the lunchtime sunshine on Thursday, city workers and passengers sat chatting on the stylish new stone benches. King's Cross – it's a pleasure.
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