Budget: Various
Roles: Project Management and Development Monitoring
This property is a Grade II listed building that combines offices, restaurants, the BAFTA headquarters, and a historic retail arcade that connects Piccadilly with Jermyn Street.
About The Project
Dendy Byrne were initially appointed in 2016 to monitor the major renovation of the Grade II Listed BAFTA headquarters. The scale of the redevelopment required extensive liaison with various stakeholders, including retailers and occupants of adjacent commercial offices, which Dendy Byrne coordinated.
We were also appointed as project managers to assist our client with various enabling works that were agreed with BAFTA to support and facilitate their works. This included installation of a UKPN substation with associated structural alterations within the highway and acoustic improvement works.
We were further instructed to project manage a £4.5m refurbishment of the Arcade to enhance the retail experience. This required significant structural alteration and necessitated careful logistics planning and close liaison with BAFTA and the retailers at the Arcade. As part of these works’ artwork was commissioned in the form of a canopy over the Piccadilly entrance, which utilised steel and metallic painted aluminium and layers of coloured glass to link the building back to the building’s original association with watercolor artists.
Interesting Fact
Princes Arcade was originally built to house the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours.
The redevelopment of BAFTA’s home at 195 Piccadilly included the lifting of two of the three major ornate rooflights, which had previously been hidden from view, to create a new fourth floor.