124 Horseferry Road

Head office of Channel 4 Television April 2022 124 Horseferry Road Channel 4 Headquarters building File:Cropped image of 124 Horseferry Road, London.jpg Channel 4 Headquarters with the Big 4 sculpture in the foreground Channel 4 building High-tech architecture City of Westminster Channel Four Television, 124–126 Horseferry Road, LondonSW1P 2TX 51 29 45.4 N 0 7 58.6 W type:landmark inline,title 1990 1994 07 06 yes £38,500,000 Channel Four Television Corporation 43 m ft on http://skyscrapernews.com/buildings.php?id=7277 skyscrapernews.com Channel 4 Television Headquarters 2017-09-04 37 m ft on 4 15000 sqm on Richard Rogers and PartnersProject Architects:Channel 4 https://www.rsh-p.com/projects/channel-4/ Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners 2017-09-04 Marco Goldschmied and John Young (Project Partners); Mark Darbon (Project Lead); Richard Rogers; Graham Stirk; Mike Davies; Mike Fairbrass; Stephen Light; Avtar Lotay; John Lowe; Andrew Morris; Stephen Spence; Martin White Arup Group Davis Langdon & Everest / Mott Green Wall yes Grade II Listed Building 124–126 Horseferry Road 2023 03 23 yes 1479017 yes 124 Horseferry Road is the Grade II listed London headquarters for the British television broadcaster, Channel 4. It is located in the City of Westminster, and includes 100 residential apartments. The building was opened on 6 July 1994 and was designed by Richard Rogers and Partners. In January 2024, Channel 4 announced it would sell the building as part of cost-cutting measures.Mark Sweney Channel 4 says it is to sell London HQ as it confirms job cuts https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/29/channel-4-sell-london-hq-jobs-cuts-ad-slump The Guardian 29 January 2024 29 January 2024 Design and construction thumb|left|Entrance to the building After a selection process during the autumn of 1990, Channel 4 invited three architectural firms to take part in a competition to design their 15000 sqm on headquarters building on the south-eastern corner of Chadwick Street and Horseferry Road in a mixed development area of Westminster.https://www.bennettsassociates.com/assets/lib/2017/04/24/9010-Channel-Four.pdf Bennetts Associates Channel 4 Headquarters, Horseferry Road 2017-09-04 2017-09-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20170904203043/https://www.bennettsassociates.com/assets/lib/2017/04/24/9010-Channel-Four.pdf deadhttps://www.buildington.co.uk/london-sw1/124-horseferry-road/channel-4-hq/id/626 buildington.co.uk Description of Channel 4 HQ 2017-09-04 The site consisted of an abandoned 10 m ft on deep basement of a proposed 1970s post office building. The architectural brief also incorporated a requirement for a residential development of two blocks of flats including 100 apartments, an underground car park and a small public landscaped park. The three firms chosen were Bennetts Associates, Richard Rogers and Partners and James Stirling. The Richard Rogers Partnership was chosen from the shortlist. This was the first major building that they had designed since the Lloyd's building (1978–1986). Construction began in 1990 and was completed in 1994. It was built on a design and build basis. The building consists of two four-storey office blocks that are connected to a central entrance block in an L shape. The entrance has a concave glazed wall.http://manchesterhistory.net/architecture/1990/channelfour.html manchesterhistory.net Channel 4 Building – Horseferry Road, London, UK 2017-09-04 The building is finished in grey steel cladding, which is perforated by red-ochre steel struts. John Young, the project architect, said that the colour was "taken from a paint sample provided by the City of San Francisco: it is the same colour as the Golden Gate Bridge".https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/through-a-glass-imaginatively-richard-rogers-headquarters-for-channel-4-mirrors-its-innovative-style-1411983.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/through-a-glass-imaginatively-richard-rogers-headquarters-for-channel-4-mirrors-its-innovative-style-1411983.html 1 May 2022 subscription live The Independent Through a glass, imaginatively: Richard Rogers' headquarters for Channel 4 mirrors its innovative style of programming, says Jonathan Glancey 2017-09-04 In 2023, the Twentieth Century Society added the building to its Risk List of architecture at risk of being lost.Buildings at Risk https://c20society.org.uk/buildings-at-risk C20 Society 31 March 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20260221033547/https://c20society.org.uk/buildings-at-risk 21 February 2026 It was listed at Grade II by Historic England on 23 March 2023.1479017 Channel Four Television, 124–126 Horseferry Road, London, SW1P 2TX II 2023-03-24 See also Big 4 (sculpture) Awards and nominations 1995 RIBA National Award 1995 Royal Fine Art Commission Award 1996 BBC Design Awards Finalist References External links Category:Richard Rogers buildings Category:Channel 4 Category:Office buildings completed in 1994 Category:Grade II listed buildings in the City of Westminster Category:1994 establishments in England Category:Mass media company headquarters in the United Kingdom Category:The Twentieth Century Society Risk List