BAFTA Headquarters
Comprehensive expansion and re-design of the British Academy of Film & Television Arts, Grade II Listed headquarters at 195 Piccadilly. Expansion includes new top floor by raising & restoring two large Victorian rooflight structures & decorative plasterwork considered ‘lost’ for 40 years, from the original 1883 Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours Gallery, built in ‘opposition’ to the Royal Academy across the road.
Facilities include: doubled capacity, two cinema theatres, banqueting hall, multipurpose event and exhibition spaces, members’ bars/restaurant/club, roof terraces, judging/meeting rooms and offices.
“BAFTA’s ambitious plans will make our home at 195 Piccadilly an international centre of excellence for the motion picture arts. We are excited by the ideas and scope of the design by Benedetti Architects to fundamentally enhance every aspect of what we do while being sensitive to the character of the building we are so fond of. They feel part of the BAFTA family now and we look forward to working with them to build the project.”
- Kevin Price - Chief Operating Officer, BAFTA
CLIENT
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
COST
£33m
STATUS
Current
TEAM
Benedetti Architects
McDowell+Benedetti (to July 2016)
Price & Myers
Alan Baxter Associates (Stg1-3 only)
Harley Haddow,
Troup Bywaters + Anders (Stg 3 only)
Max Fordham (Stg 1-2 only)
Jackson Coles
DP9
United Design Partnership (initial Stg 2 interiors only)
LAPD
Charcoal Blue
Sandy Brown
Haruo Morishima Catering Consultant
MillerHare
MLM
BWC Fire
Lumina
Knight Harwood
AWARDS
Winner of the 2023 International Architecture Awards
Winner of the 2023 RIBA UK Awards - London Awards
Winner of the Green Good Design Awards 2023
Highly Commended for 2022 World Architecture Festival Awards - Inside: Bars & Restaurants
Winner of the 2022 World Architecture Festival Awards - New & Old
Winner of the 2022 New London Architecture Awards - Conservation
Winner of the 2022 Building Innovation Awards - Most Innovative Restoration/Refurbishment
Winner of the 2022 London Construction Awards - Fit out project of the year
Winner of the 2022 SECBE Awards - Conservation & Regeneration
Winner of the 2022 FIS Awards - Plasterwork/Fine Arts Moulding
Winner of the 2022 Green Apple Awards - Beautiful Buildings
Winner of the 2022 Surface Design Awards - Public Building Interior
Winner of the 2022 Surface Design Awards - Supreme Award
PUBLISHED
Dezeen 2023
ArchDaily 2023
RIBA Journal 2023
Architects' Journal 2023
New London Architecture 2023
Architizer 2023
Global Design News 2023
Designverse 2023
Archinect 2023
Design Dekko 2023
ArchEyes 2023
D5 Mag 2023
The Plan 2023
Rinnovabili 2023
Office et culture 2023
Batiactu 2023
Arkitera 2023
Muuuz 2023
Education Snapshots 2023
Archdaily September 2022
Archello 2022
ICON June 2022
RIBA J Products in Practice May/June 2022
Cinema Technology March 2022 edition
Premier Hospitality March 2022 edition
Material Source
New London Best Buildings and Projects 2021
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2021
Stirworld
Architecture Magazine
New London Best Buildings and Projects 2019/2020