Issue 6 Dispatches from Television Centre White City’s first art gallery Elephant Magazine’s new gallery opens on Wood Lane The neighbourhood The final apartments are ready at Television Centre Clean eating Kricket and Blanc Dry Cleaners join the line up transmission 1 WELCOME WELCOME Television Centre turns a new leaf this autumn Between construction completing, 5 Television Centre restaurants opening and new residents 101 Wood Lane London W12 7FW moving into new homes — it’s been a rather 020 8811 8720 busy summer at Television Centre. The Allis, @thisistvc #thisistvc Patty & Bun and Homeslice opened their Live at Television Centre doors (and terraces) for summer trade, televisioncentre.com construction started to complete and more Cover image: Television Centre façade new residents (and their pets) have arrived by Lee Mawdsley at their new homes. It’s a turning point for transmission is edited the neighbourhood. We report on White City’s and produced by dn&co. dnco.com Illustration: Charlie Davis updates in this issue of transmission. 2 3 NEWS & EVENTS NEWS & EVENTS Media Giant Publicis Takes 2 Television Centre What’s hopping Publicis Media are set to move more than 2,000 employees into 2 Television Centre, the new office building (pictured in White City left) adjacent to the historic Helios. The move in spring 2019 Tuning in to the latest news from W12: will see the global group share the building with The White restaurant openings, award-winning honey Company, who moved in earlier and more this year. Kricket Finally Arrives A new outpost of the Indian-British Autumn’s best events The White City Place Pod restaurant Kricket opens on the at London Design Festival Television Centre forecourt (next in west London The Pod is going on tour! The to Bluebird) in late September. The mobile recording studio that founding duo started the business in lives up the road at White City a shipping container in Brixton, and Open House at Place is travelling to South grew into a Soho location last year. Television Centre Kensington for London Design White City will be Kricket’s biggest Join Television Centre masterplan Festival to record a special location yet, and it all sounds very architects Alford Monoghan Hall batch of podcasts, in promising. A Tandoor oven, a long Morris during this year’s Open collaboration with the V&A and bar for experimental cocktails and an House Festival for architect-led Brompton Design District. Catch even more ambitious menu offering – tours of the regenerated these episodes and more at the get set to enjoy the latest from these Television Centre. White City Place podcast, two bright, young restaurateurs. Thought Starters. 22 September, 10am–4.30pm Open daily from 24 September Architect-led tours every 30 min 22 September – 23 September 2 Television Centre,101 Wood openhouselondon.org.uk whitecityplace.com/podcast Lane, London W12 7RF kricket.co.uk An Adventure Portobello Spanish Coming to the Bush Theatre, Festival Award-Winning Honey An Adventure is a new The first ever Spanish festival Oh, honey! The bees on the production by Vinay Patel – the comes to Portobello Road to roof of Television Centre have writer behind the book and play celebrate the sounds and tastes been industriously producing True Brits. An Adventure of this exuberant culture. Come honey for the last two years, chronicles seven decades and for the Flamenco performances, thanks to the expert beekeeping three continents in a story that stay for the Croquetas. of the London Bee Company. was inspired by Patel’s Hive Honey is the fruit of their grandparents and their Sunday 23 September, 11.30am combined labour and it’s just experiences coming to the UK. portobellospanishfest.co.uk been awarded a Great Taste Award. For more London honey 6 September – 20 October by the London Bee Company, bushtheatre.co.uk visit thelondonbee.com. 4 5 LOCAL AREA 3 Sales suite makes way Progress for new gastropub The former Television Centre sales suite fronting Wood Lane Report has moved to a new home in the Helios. Its former space will be New homes, new transformed into a gastropub, 5 employers and new opening later this autumn. amenities arrive in 4 Pedestrian link connects White City Wood Lane to John Lewis and Westfield A new pedestrian link connecting Television Centre to Westfield and John Lewis will 7 open, along with new shops and 6 galleries in the railway arches under White City tube station. 5 Imperial College’s White City Campus If you’ve noticed the cranes and the ascent of one particularly 1 Final apartments complete tall tower, then you’ve noticed The finishing touches are being the new Imperial College White put to the new homes at Television City campus. At the end of Centre, overlooking the beautifully the year, the aforementioned landscaped courtyard. This tower will welcome more than coincides with the upcoming 200 new residents, including launch of the Architects’ Series, Imperial staff. Another key 2 a collection of bespoke architect flagship building, the Michael designed homes that sit atop Uren Biomedical Engineering the Helios and Crescent. Visit Research Hub (BmE Hub), will televisioncentre.com for more be up and running by this time information. next year. 1 2 House and home: 6 Life sciences companies White City House opens moving to W12 4 The new Soho House members’ Although the campus is still 3 club marked both the start of under construction, Imperial summer and its grand opening College is already attracting with a week of fanfare. What new innovation to the area. A might be the most ambitious new cluster of life sciences Soho House yet opened just in companies is forming here and time for its members to spend at White City Place, kicked off the heatwave cooling down by by Autolus and Synthace. the rooftop pool. But White City House is not just for members: 7 Elephant opens gallery in parts of the club such as Soho disused petrol station House Hotel and The Allis are Elephant Magazine is moving open to all. It’s a major perk for to White City with a new gallery Television Centre residents: the and editorial HQ. For an interview new fitness facilities are theirs to with creative director Robert use too. Visit whitecityhouse.com Shore, simply turn the page. Illustration: Li Maggie for more. Visit elephant.art for more. 6 7 ELEPHANT Elephant is in the Room The doomsayers may bemoan the plight of print, but one publication is going against the grain and taking its biggest leap to date: a bricks- and-mortar space dedicated to the arts in a converted petrol station fronting Wood Lane. 8 9 ELEPHANT ELEPHANT Tell us about the petrol station on Wood Lane. The structure will remain intact under a new building although I should stress there won’t be any petrol on site anymore. But the pumps will still be present. The iconic, key-shaped roof canopy will still SOUTH AFRICA ROAD be present. It won’t be entirely visible, because we W don’t want everything that happens in the space to O O White D be in response to a petrol station. At the same time City L A it’s quite interesting to think that this place has been N E providing some kind of fuel before and now we’ll provide fuel of another kind. WOOD CRESCENT Why is now the right time for Elephant West? It is part of a broader trend of offering readers a more experiential way to engage with the magazine. Wood There is also some momentum happening in this TELEVISION Lane particular area of London. For years the east of CENTRE London has dominated the art scene (or the idea of the art scene) but things have been shifting in the past few years. There is this growing balance of activity in west London and it’s quite exciting. Elephant was founded in 2009 with a mission to ‘survey the international contemporary art scene with more energy and depth than any other magazine’. Elephant West, the magazine’s new outpost in a formerly disused petrol station, will fuel the magazine’s mission like never before. Opening this autumn, the Liddicoat & Goldhill- Tell us about Elephant West. Who are some of the artists that we can expect designed space will feature a project space, urban This will be the home of the magazine. this autumn when the space opens? garden, shop and café, and it will serve as the We are calling it a project space as opposed to a We are very excited to have a west London magazine’s new headquarters. Invited artists will gallery, because we’re asking artists to come and artist called Maisie Cousins who will be the first artist be commissioned to create large-scale solo do takeovers. We want them to create new work shown here. We are also going to be working with a projects that serve as the backdrop to a rotating in response to the space. They will have to use gallery based in Ladbroke Grove called Griffin which schedule of talks, workshops, film screenings, the space knowing that lots of other things has been running a very good art prize for the past theatre and dance. will happen here. So it’s a different take on the several years. Elephant has become a sponsor and We spoke to Robert Shore, Elephant’s traditional gallery space. will be hosting the next edition which will be called creative director, to learn more about the project. There’ll also be a café there called ‘Fuel’ which the Elephant x Griffin prize.