Architect and Builder November/December 2015 | Page 46

pass security on street level and then travel one
floor up to the main building’s reception area.
This floor also houses the strategically
positioned newsroom, close to reception and
with direct access to the studios and the outside.
The news department and the centrally placed
state-of-the-art studios, form the backbone to
the entire ETV operation. This floor, together
with the ground floor, form the stone-clad solid
podium of the building,
All of the administrative and office functions
are housed over floors 2-5 and are planned to
accommodate ETV staff requirements well
into the future. Each floor is designed along a
planning principle the architects have dubbed
the ‘racetrack’. This is a ring of circulation and
exposed services reticulation that provides a
consistent, strong organisational diagram that
allows for multiple variations and adaptations,
as needs change, of similar floors while
providing easy