Kings Place Voted Best Office To Work In

Break out the houmous pots and organic veg box! King's Place, the concert venue and home of the Guardian Media Group and Network Rail, has won the hotly-contested 'Best Commerical Workplace' award, an annual gong presented by the British Council for Offices. At a lavish ceremony this week, the canalside building beat four other entries to walk away with the prize. It was praised for "[altering] the common understanding of what is commercially possible", and also for its technical achievements, with judges noting in particular the expansion of the originally-planned 250-seater auditorium into a much bigger space, a decision that "demonstrated huge faith in the spirit of the project". Locally-brewed ales and holistically-sourced vol-au-vents all round at Guardian Towers, then!