 Kings Place sits on the east side of York Way, 150 metres from King’s Cross/St Pancras train stations.On its eastern side the building overlooks Battlebridge Basin on the Regent's Canal which is also home to many residential boats and the London Canal Museum.Central St Martins, one of the art colleges within the University of the Arts London, brought a major visual arts community into the area from mid-2011, when it moved into the nearby Argent’s King's Cross Central development.