The Media Pavilion at the heart of The Championships’ Grounds, features state-of-the-art broadcast and interview facilities, and has been central to helping the players and media tell the stories of Wimbledon.
“In creating the Media Pavilion, Langstaff Day has helped to deliver one of the finest facilities for the media in world sport. The advanced design effortlessly sits aloft the studios & production facilities of the Broadcast Centre, providing sophisticated presentation bays for our global broadcast partners, with uninterrupted views across the Grounds. The beautiful external design flows seamlessly through to the Media Theatre and interview areas, and the entire space offers easy movement for players as they fulfil their multiple media commitments”.
Paul Davies, Associate Director of Broadcast, Production & Media Rights, at the All England Club
PROJECT AIM
The project turns a back of house space into state of the art media facilities through the construction of a new world-class Media Pavilion.
As well as providing important new facilities, the Media Pavilion forms critical connections between existing and proposed internal and external spaces.
The role of landscaped spaces around the new building are also expanded and improved through its design.
You can see more about the rest of the Media Development Project here.
OUR CONCEPT
The design concept is guided by the Club's landscape vision of 'Tennis in an English garden'.
The building is a glass pavilion, containing a series of 'objects' that contain the interview rooms, sheltered by an accessible canopy overhead.
A series of formal and informal spaces from inside to outside are created.
THE DESIGN
The Media Pavilion is a two storey building with a rooftop terrace, forming a new extension to the building known as the Broadcast Centre.
The first floor level provides the state of the art interview suite opening onto the existing Broadcast Lawn. The suite provides the rooms for the Competitors to be interviewed during The Championships, and includes the Main Interview Room. The interview rooms are clad in terracotta baguettes, expressed as objects in the glass pavilion which opens onto the lawn.
Integrated bridges will be installed in future to form routes to the Millennium Building and adjacent Competitor and Media facilities.
Underneath the interview suite, a new ground floor provides flexible broadcast editing and production space. This floor is architecturally expressed as a brick plinth.
External spaces are created as part of the design. They are suitable for presentation and interview space with stunning views across the site as their backdrop.
Location: The All England Lawn Tennis Club, Wimbledon
Client: The All England Lawn Tennis Club
Role: Concept Architect and Client Representative
TEAM
Executive Architects: Adamson Associates Architects
Structural/Civil Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Landscape Architect: Applied Landscape Design
Mechanical Engineer: ME Engineers
Planning Consultant: Rolfe Judd Planning
BREAAM: Cundall
Cost: Turner & Townsend
Main Contractor: Knight Harwood
Photography: Edward Bishop
