Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners is hoping to submit plans for its new British Library building next year.

RSHP won the job two years ago and work will involve putting up a new building at a site between the existing grade I-listed structure - designed by Colin St John Wilson and his partner MJ Long - and the Francis Crick Institute which was designed by HOK and PLP near King’s Cross station.

Stanhope and its part-owner, Japanese developer Mitsui Fudoson, signed a deal with the library to develop the 700,000sq ft site earlier this year but the job has been held up by plans to build a new station for the proposed Crossrail 2 line underneath the plot.

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