Prize winner

The makeover of Television Centre has won an award for architects Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

The partially-listed Grade II complex now retains just four tv studios leased to BBC Studioworks. The remainder is a mixture of  commercial units, office space, a hotel, gym and pool, and 432 flats. Whilst the cost of the project remains undisclosed, it was entered in, and won, the Architect Journals' Retrofit Awards section of 'Listed Buildings: Over £5m".

The judges said the winner was a ‘transformational’ project which had opened up London’s TV Centre to a completely different use through a ‘highly complex retrofit’. One judge said: ‘A huge amount of design thinking has gone into this scheme – it’s incredible’.