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The studio includes, a main News Area comprising four news desks, video / audio mixing areas, presenter suites, graphic design office and a data centre. The above and journalists were to be visible on camera. An additional six independent studios ranging from 180 m2 to 480 m2 were also constructed.

A VIP walkway links all the major areas at Mezzanine level. This allows investors and dignitaries to walk through the working studio.

In order to accommodate the studio one internal structural column was removed and four quadrants of floor slab and beam were removed to create an atrium. The studio takes up the ground floor and new mezzanine level of three available storeys.

A mezzanine floor was inserted between the Ground and First Floor; much of this new space faces on camera areas. The VIP walkway was incorporated on this level, running from the gallery around the studio to the editing corridor.

Journalists and associated staff are accommodated throughout the entire floor area seated in a number of sunken "pods" or in rows of fixed seating to provide a dramatic backdrop the news readers.

Lighting around the studio is created by color controlled LED allowing for an infinite variety of color changes.