[ViridianFan]

Funny you should say that.

From the original BBC Urban Commitment by MJP Architects. Here is the ground floor plan with the two studios opposite each other boxed in red. One other thing of note is the N8 1999-2003 style double desk set styles used in this plan:


Also considering that the studios were to be opposite each other. One does wonder how they would have worked, especially when both channels were to have broadcasted at the same time over the newsroom atrium.

Aren’t these the original MacCormac Jamieson Prichard (MJP) plans for new broadcasting house? MJP were replaced as the project was going over budget.  The Guardian did a piece about it. 

www.theguardian.com  

Reading about the original plans, the hoop was was a compromsie after and the original plans were scaled back. Whilst E is a great view, I can’t help but wonder what the original would have looked like. The same article describes it below:

…the BBC, reflecting its position as a nurturer of the arts, wanted to spark its very own architectural renaissance….at some point, management decided it had been aiming too high; costs were cut, ambitions lowered. This hit the News Room hardest. MJP's original design was sensational: a magnificent space supported and framed by enormous tree-like columns, with branches spreading around the room, to even out the load of all the floors above. It had the look of the command centre of an intergalactic spaceship, even though MacCormac was making references to revered architects such as John Soane, as well as dreaming up the future. It would have been a thrilling place not just to work in but to look into – from above, or from the comfort of your own living room. The problem was that this was a demanding design. The BBC wanted compromise, and the architect refused. Richard MacCormac went, bound to silence

Talking about breakfast at NBH, would it have used the studio the one show comes from?