The Media Village, White City, London

The Media Village development at White City is an award-winning complex of buildings which includes a centre for state-of-the-art broadcast facilities, offices, shops and cafés, all centred around a landscaped public boulevard. Designed by leading architects Allies and Morrison, this development has been specially conceived to integrate into the local area, so that people can come and go – to sit in the boulevard, have a cup of coffee in a local café, or enjoy some of the commissioned public artworks.

The artworks include a giant plaque for the 1908 Olympic Games, which took place on this very site. There's also a walkway poem by the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion on the theme of broadcasting, and colour works by the Japanese artist Yuko Shiraishi both inside and outside one of the buildings, the Media Centre.

Programme-making activity does happen in these buildings, but there are no studios for visitors to see. We do, however, regularly open the doors of the Media Village as part of Open House, when visitors come to explore the spacious and airy office spaces, designed for maximum flexibility and lit by giant atria.