The LOCAL NEWS has arranged for eight readers to be given an exclusive guided tour of BBC Scotland’s new £188 m Headquarters building at Pacific Quay. The HQ will be formally opened this month.

Staff have been moving into the building since April with everyone scheduled to have left the old premises at Queen Margaret Drive by the end of this month. The place is expected to be an exciting 24/7 part of the local community.

On the riverside next to Glasgow’s Science Centre, the 34,000 sq m. building was designed by leading international architect David Chipperfield. It has digital broadcasting facilities, offices, creative spaces and substantial public areas. On entering the triple-glazed edifice, giant red sandstone ‘steps’ can be seen rising 28.5 metres (93.5ft) from ground level to the fifth floor.

Each ‘step’ contains a studio and its roof is flexible public space for meetings, relaxing and programme audiences. The views from the inside of the building – particularly from these ‘steps’ – are simply wonderful.  

Said BBC Scotland Controller Ken MacQuarrie, ‘This magnificent building is unique. It offers a fantastic working environment which will shape the future of broadcasting. We welcome our audiences to come in and see their BBC. It will set a standard for the whole of the BBC and for the broadcasting industry. Enormous credit is due to the joint BBC, Siemens and JCI team who have worked brilliantly together to make this happen.’

For your chance to be one of EIGHT LOCAL NEWS readers to be invited on an exclusive guided tour in OCTOBER, you need to complete the sentence;

‘I would like to go on an exclusive guided tour of the BBC HQ building at Pacific Quay because………………………………………’

Send it by email to: localnews@btconnect.com to arrive no later than 9am on Tuesday September 18. Remember to include your name, post code and contact phone number for yourself. Only email entries will be considered.

Final decision on the selection of eight people rests with the Editor of the the LOCAL NEWS.