The venue for the BBC recordings aired on the Alexis Komer Show, this hugely impressive building has been taken over by a number of subsequent owners and tenants Built in 1876, it was taken over by the Aeolian Company, makers of pianolas, in 1903. Hence the name. The BBC took over the concert space during the Second World War after one of their other facilities was destroyed.

The site is occupied by expensive office space and a number of antique dealers at present, since the closure of both the shops facing onto New Bond Street. The frontage is beginning to look a bit shabby. They'll be having the neighbours complaining.

The studios occupied floors one and two and were extensively used by the BBC in the sixties and early seventies. The studios had their own entrance in Bloomfield Place and occupied the first and second floors of the building.