Grind

The forecourt of Television Centre - in BBC days, known as the Horseshoe Car Park, with entrance and exit through raise-and-lower barriers, with a central office for security guards - has always looked very different in artist impressions by developers Stanhope. Monumental concrete letters have so far been the name of the game....

New images from the Architects Journal show some rather different views. The developers are running a design competition to provide a kiosk or kiosks (selling coffee and flowers) on the outside deck in front of the big brick wall containing tv studio TC1. I'm afraid, at 28m, the opportunity is rather small for the five short-listed schemes - and the impact is provincial theme park, rather than wow.