Virgin Media Television, Great Portland Street

Final touches to the new extension of BBC’s Broadcasting House, from Hallam Street

BBC’s Broadcasting House originally built in Art Deco style

BBC’s Broadcasting House & new extension

Broadcasting House new extension from Portland Place

Virgin Media Group, 160 - 170 Great Portland Street

Since the 1900’s, the area around Portland Village has been home Britain’s most important radio and television stations, it was also a key communications centre during the World Wars. 

 

Portland Media Village

This section of the West End remains very popular with broadcast, media and IT companies. It is the home to the BBC at Broadcasting House, Virgin Media Group at 160 Great Portland Street, UKTV, Bravo Television, IDS, Discovery Channel Europe, and Mac 7 TV amongst others.

Broadcasting House has been undergoing extensive redevelopment work and the BBC's entire news operation – both Television and radio - will be located here.   It will also then also be home too for the BBC World Service.  Over ten million people across the UK will watch or listen to output from the new Broadcasting House, and every week at least 150 million people worldwide will tune into the BBC World Service networks from this location.

A Major Broadcasting Centre is created at BBC’s Broadcasting House

Major redevelopment work is nearing completion at the BBC's most famous building, Broadcasting House. The new W1 media centre is set to become a dynamic new home for all the BBC's national radio networks, as well as a focus for the BBC's national and international news operations, bringing the World Service and the domestic news service together in one venue for the first time.  This new building will host one of the world's largest live newsrooms. Broadcasting House will be the headquarters and registered office of the BBC in Portland Place and Langham Place

New W1 Public Space

The development aims to enhance both the northern corner of Regent Street, set in the commercial hub of Regent Street and Oxford Street, and the colourful media-fashion zone around Great Portland Street to its rear.

It will be the first BBC facility in central London will have a public face accessible to all – where broadcaster and audience can meet directly.  It will hold genuinely public spaces – providing performance zones, cafés, exhibition/art installations, a children's media workshop and space for general interaction.   

The New Building

 

The new building will contain six television studios and 140 acoustic spaces, as well as specially conceived zones for creative discussion and interaction.  Other features will include: huge atria and glass facades. It will include 27 new, acoustically improved studio spaces which are completely resistant to tube noise and disturbance – creating a better listening experience for audiences.

 

 

Landmark Architecture

There is a genuine desire with this project to create a building of major architectural and artistic vision.  Using a combination of glass and Portland stone, the building aesthetically echoes the  original Broadcasting House and is also sympathetic to John Nash's All Souls Church which flanks it.