British Grove Studios Pictures

[Hoops McCann]

I have no idea how, who, or what happened to the original thread, but it seems to have been deleted somehow.

Anyway, here is the original link:



go to Portfolio > British Grove Studio, London

[shangri la 1]

  What an amazing building!! We have only had glimpses of it from Mark's sources, but the design features are brilliant. One photo looks like an interior view from a space ship. The plan looks very complicated also. Interesting the brief to the Architect was that if it didn't work 100% then it didn't work at all. I don't think Mark would have it any other way.  Thanks for the post Dan - No wonder everyone who comments about the studio raves about it!! 

[jacki]

Yes, as I said in the previous thread that went missing, I wouldn't mind living in the bath at British Grove. Or in any other room in the building!

[Ingo]

No wonder that he does so much recording these days

[Fieneke2]

Hey Jacki, I wouldn't mind to be in the kitchen and prepare a big pan of delicious, healthy vegetable soup for Mark and the men! 

The outsdie doesn't look so nice, but the inside looks beautiful! I would love to walk around there!

Fieneke

[Jules]

The building is quite interesting, I see it from the outside (from the inside has to be GREAT) and it

[knopfling]

Dan, thanks for finding this. It's a beautiful building. No wonder MK wants to play around there some more so quickly.

[dustyvalentino]

Beautiful place. Must have cost MK an arm and a leg to build that in central London, hopefully he is making a bit back through recording sessions.

[joanzimm]

What a beautiful studio   Does anyone know why he waited so long to build his own studio?  Just curious.

[Jules]

Dusty, the British Grove Studio is not in Central London!!!!

It

[dustyvalentino]

It's in zone 2 on the tube map, I would still class it as central London, as opposed to greater London. 

[Jules]

It's in zone 2 on the tube map, I would still class it as central London, as opposed to greater London.  

Maybe Martina who lives in London, or other londoners or british here can help us with this, but as far as I know, Central London is the zone where all the big monuments are, like the tower of London, London Bridge, The Monument etc etc. I think that district is called "City of London" or something like that, and often mentioned as Central London, as it is more or less the centre. The Studio is in Chiswick, in the west of London, quite far from the centre  

It

[marky49]

The term Central London refers to the districts of London, England which are considered closest to the centre. There is no conventional definition, nor any official one, for the entire area that can be called "central London". Central London covers about 10 square miles (26 square kilometres) on both areas of north-south River Thames. Central London can be split into three main sections, the City, the West End, and South Bank. Quote Wiki

I would NOT consider Chiswick as central London as I always use the bus map of London transportation as a reference. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/Central-London-Day-Bus-Map.pdf

[marky49]

Oh, btw for not Londoners  Chiswick is spoken Chisick -> without the 'w'

[shangri la 1]

  Thanks for the link to the map Marky49.

 My first focus on the map gave me a small insight into the influence this city has had on Mark's entire musical/writing journey. It was in the North-East corner of Hyde Park - there they were right alongside of each other. "speaker