Over the past few weeks we’ve been deep inside the digital reconstruction of Fairbanks and Neptune House at the former BBC Elstree Centre — building a fully navigable 360º virtual tour of these extraordinary spaces.

Back in July 2025, a small team of us spent about a week and a half on site, capturing nearly 400 individual 360º images, 600 stills, LiDAR-scanning Stages C and D, and recording an acoustic sound print of the Orchestra rehearsal room (also known as Stage M).

Since then, we’ve been stitching all of this together — placing each viewpoint onto original floor plans, mapping movement through the site, and shaping the experience of how these buildings can be explored.

The screenshot here shows part of that process: tour nodes being laid out across the studio plan as the virtual space starts to come alive. Alongside it are some behind-the-scenes photos from the recording work itself — sweaty, meticulous, and very satisfying days.

We’re getting close to the initial testing phase, which is where it really starts to feel real. More soon — and we genuinely can’t wait to start letting people walk these spaces again, even if only virtually.

A big thanks must go to Oxygen Studios for supporting this work and for the access given to us and our project.