Architecturally though, it
is
just a multi-storey car park with a couple of spiral staircases in the corner, and considering how much the building cost, I would have expected something a bit more special than that. The open, cavernous, transparent environment isn't particularly conducive to comfort and privacy either - everyone's going to feel as if they're constantly on show all the time, from every conceivable angle, which forces people to act differently. I feel oppressed just looking at a photo of the atrium.
Architecturally though, it
is
just a multi-storey car park with a couple of spiral staircases in the corner, and considering how much the building cost, I would have expected something a bit more special than that. The open, cavernous, transparent environment isn't particularly conducive to comfort and privacy either - everyone's going to feel as if they're constantly on show all the time, from every conceivable angle, which forces people to act differently. I feel oppressed just looking at a photo of the atrium.
Out of interest, what were you expecting?
You can't comment on the cost of the building without knowing what features are being built in to it. The demands of a broadcaster are more complicated than a multi-storey car park.
Architecturally though, it
is
just a multi-storey car park with a couple of spiral staircases in the corner, and considering how much the building cost, I would have expected something a bit more special than that. The open, cavernous, transparent environment isn't particularly conducive to comfort and privacy either - everyone's going to feel as if they're constantly on show all the time, from every conceivable angle, which forces people to act differently. I feel oppressed just looking at a photo of the atrium.
You're vastly underestimating the building. The photos you've seen are just a small part of it, the whole of BH isn't some open plan aitrium. It's a very large technically complex building... a lot more than just a simple concrete structure like a car park
It looks amazing. Just imagine it filled up with people, desks, computers and plasma screens, what a background it will be to the lucky channel that gets that set.
I wonder if it was possible to put another set upon the ground floor one. I can see there's something in glass there. News channel could get the first one and World the one on top of it.
Is it just me or is the scale/perspective in this one totally wrong... it looks like a huge area until you notice the hard hat.
Unless it's a very big hat
If you look at the door in the background and the sewer grates in the floor that would appear to be the basement / subbasement level and therefore might be smaller than you expect.
Also note that black grated wall in the background. Plant room / servers ?
Yep - air con / ventilation and cable access covers. Certainly not sewers or drains...
The in-floor air-con vents appear to be much more common these days. A number of new buildings I've been in recently have had them.
I think there is some perspective distortion going on in that photo - as the "normal" size for the vents, ducts and raised floor tiles is smaller than those items appear in the foreground elements...
