Marco Polo House (London)
United Kingdom /
England /
London /
A3216 Queenstown Road, 346
World
/ United Kingdom
/ England
/ London
World / United Kingdom / England
office building, studio - to be replaced, historical layer / disappeared object
Large marble-and-glass office building, built in 1987, to a design by postmodernist architect Ian Pollard.
Initially home to British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) television in the late 1980s, and shares its name with the Marcopolo satellites they used. Part of the building was also used by The Observer newspaper. When BSB merged with Sky to form BSkyB the new company retained the lease, and in 1993 it also became home to shopping channel QVC, whose studios and offices are based there. It also housed the ill-fated OnDigital / ITV digital for a while.
Initially home to British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) television in the late 1980s, and shares its name with the Marcopolo satellites they used. Part of the building was also used by The Observer newspaper. When BSB merged with Sky to form BSkyB the new company retained the lease, and in 1993 it also became home to shopping channel QVC, whose studios and offices are based there. It also housed the ill-fated OnDigital / ITV digital for a while.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo_House
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Coordinates: 51°28'48"N -0°8'54"E
- 123 – 151 Buckingham Palace Road 1.5 km
- SIS Building 1.8 km
- Cardinal Place 2.1 km
- Home Office 2.2 km
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 2.4 km
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office 2.9 km
- Royal Parks HQ and Information Centre 3.4 km
- Embankment Place 3.5 km
- Draper Estate 3.6 km
- Tower Bridge Business Complex 6 km
- Battersea Park 0.6 km
- Nine Elms 0.9 km
- Shaftesbury Park Estate 1.5 km
- Chelsea 1.6 km
- South Lambeth 1.7 km
- Battersea 1.8 km
- Clapham 1.9 km
- Lambeth Council 3.3 km
- Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 3.6 km
- Wandsworth Council 4.3 km
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