Monday, November 20, 2017

Circular

The old Rotunda building, bolted on the east side of the former BBC White City 1 building, has been bought by Rayners Lane muso Jai Paul.

The four-storey silver-clad circular lump was a building in search of a purpose during its BBC ownership - used as a dentist's surgery and then as a BBC staff bar. In fact, it was orginally designed to stand in front of the building's main entrance - as a hub for directing visitors to various parts of the site. Councillors, quite rightly, thought it misplaced and ugly. But, under the BBC's procurement route, it had all been paid-for and ordered, so it was wodged on land at the east side, and a short high-level corridor connected it to the rest of the building.

The circus tent of spikes atop the Rotunda act as a support for a metal globe, which was a piece of 'public art' required of the development - barely visible to anyone inside or outside.

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