Google's latest London office is no Shard, but a massive footprint 'groundscraper'
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Now comes the news that Google’s latest London office, for which plans were submitted last week, will be a “groundscraper”. Not for the G Dogs a sky-scraping tower. Nope, it’s going for a land-hugging complex in King’s Cross that will be longer (at 330m) than the Shard is tall (310). That’s just so Google, isn’t it? Pretending that size doesn’t matter then trouncing the competition with a bit of lateral thinking. Long (but not very tall) shall it reign.
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