The Breakfast Television Centre was the former headquarters for TV-AM, located in Camden Town, London. The project ran from 1981-1983. It was converted from a former car showroom to a design by Sir Terry Farrell. The brief called for reception and hospitality areas, two television studios, control rooms, technical facilities and office space for 350 employees. The production facilities were on the ground-floor level and the administration on the first-floor level. Linking these two floors was the central stair. Sitting in a sea of blue carpet, and in the form a of a Mesopotamian ziggurat, the central stair at half-floor level became a platform from which the activities of the first floor could be seen, and which was designed to function as an informal meeting place. This stair was also regularly used as a stage set for the studio's programmes from 1983 until 1992 when the programme ceased production. // The majority of records for TV-AM are located at RIBA, the majority of material relating to TV-AM at Newcastle University Special Collections consists of magazine publications about the building.