Marco Polo House
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Marco Polo House is a large building at 346 Queenstown Road facing Battersea Park in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
It was originally home to British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) television in the late 1980s. It shares its name with the Marcopolo satellites used by its first owner. Part of the building was also used by The Observer newspaper. When BSB merged with Sky to form BSkyB the new company retained the lease, and in 1993 it also became home to shopping channel QVC, whose studios and offices are based there.
The building was also used as the offices for another ill-fated broadcaster, ONdigital, the UK's first digital terrestrial television broadcaster from 1998. The company was re-launched in 2001 as ITV Digital.
Marco Polo House is split into two blocks, covering 157,357 sq.ft.
The building can be seen on trains to and from Victoria station.
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