Benedetti Architects uncovers forgotten Victorian skylights inside BAFTA headquarters

The Grade II-listed BAFTA headquarters in London‘s Picadilly have received an overhaul from local studio Benedetti Architects, who raised the roof to squeeze in a new top floor while unifying its disparate interiors.

Constructed in 1883, the building originally served as the Royal Institute of Painting in Watercolours and was adapted ad hoc over the subsequent years before the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) took over in 1976.

Benedetti Architects was brought on board in 2016 after winning a competition to completely rework the space.

Benedetti Architects renovated the BAFTA headquarters in London. Photo by Rory Mulvey

Scrambling around in the loft as part of his research,

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