TOWER OF SILENCE
BROADCASTING FEATURE,
(United Service.) (Received 10.19 a.m.) LONDON, November 27.
A Tower of Silence will be a feature of the Broadcasting Corpora tion’s new headquarters, which are being erected in Portland Place at a. cost of between £400,000 and £500,000. It will take over two years to erect and will be one of the finest buildings in the world. It will contain nine insulated studios, one accommodating an audience of 1000, grouped in a central tower. Each studio will combine a suite comprising waiting, band, engineers ', listening, echo and announcing rooms. The studios will be protected from street noises by a complete outer layer of offices. The absence of vertical steel work will eliminate sound, transference between them.
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Northern Advocate, 28 November 1928, Page 5
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121TOWER OF SILENCE Northern Advocate, 28 November 1928, Page 5
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