thumb|right|The BBC Media Village plaza in 2004
White City Place is a collection of six buildings occupying a 17-acre site off Wood Lane in White City, West London, bordered by South Africa Road, Dorando Close and the A40 Westway. The site is a short distance along Wood Lane from Television Centre. All formerly properties of the BBC, only two buildings – Broadcast Centre and the Lighthouse – are currently occupied by BBC staff.
White City Place was formerly known as BBC Media Village until the BBC sold the site in 2015 and it was renamed by new owners Stanhope and Mitsui Fudosan.
BBC White City
thumb|White City One in 2013
The first building on the site, BBC White City, was designed by architects Scott Brownrigg & Turner and was opened in 1990.
The building was originally intended to be a new home for BBC Radio, replacing Broadcasting House. This plan was scrapped and the building instead became office space with fifty edit suites, various television production teams, the digital switchover team, BBC Academy, the Children in Need charity and parts of operations and HR, as well as a large restaurant.
It housed most of the BBC's current affairs and factual and learning programmes, such as Panorama, Top Gear (where it featured in a series 10 segment about the Peel P50), Watchdog and many others. The BBC vacated the building in March 2013 and sold it to developers. Rachid Errtibi, a facilities coordinator at the BBC reflected that "most staff disliked the White City building for one reason or another [but] the building did have a unique character, and was flexible enough to accommodate any new departments at short notice – achieved simply and quickly by putting up a few glass partition panels and rearranging furniture, at minimum cost." The buildings were designed by Allies and Morrison Architects and Buro Happold and built by Bovis Lend Lease. In addition to BBC offices, the site included a post office, a Tesco Express, a Starbucks, a Davy's wine bar and several other retail outlets, many of which have now been replaced. Energy Centre features the Olympic rings as a marker of the finishing line of the 1908 Olympic marathon, with a plaque unveiled by IOC president Jacques Rogge in 2005.
A further planned building, the Music Box, designed by Foreign Office Architects was originally scheduled for opening in 2006, but was cancelled in 2008 before construction began. It would have been a concert hall and recording venue for the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Chorus, the BBC Concert Orchestra and the BBC Singers.
Occupants
In 2004, it was intended that the Garden House and Lighthouse would be leased by independent production companies working with the BBC. Media Centre also housed non-broadcast divisions of the BBC which had been moved from central London to make way for the redevelopment of Broadcasting House.
At the time of its closure in July 2015, Garden House was mainly occupied by Atos and associated sub-contractors' teams following the sale of BBC Technology to Siemens in 2004.
Red Bee Media broadcasts BBC One, BBC Two, BBC News, Channel 4, Channel 5, BT Sport from Broadcast Centre.
The Energy Centre provides services to the entire site, and between 2008 and 2018 was the offices for the Top Gear television production team and the Top Gear magazine team. They moved into the main BBC Studios offices in Broadcast Centre in 2018. The One Show studio was located in the Energy Centre from 2007 to 2013 before moving to the newly built Peel Wing of Broadcasting House.
In March 2019, BBC Research & Development moved into the Lighthouse building, having vacated Centre House on Wood Lane.
A new building, Gateway Central, was constructed in 2022 and will be the headquarters of L'Oréal.
White City Place
Under new owners Stanhope and Mitsui Fudosan, the site has been renamed White City Place and an extensive refurbishment and refitting of the vacated properties on the site has taken place. and a significant renovation of White City One, renamed to The WestWorks, changed its main entrance and introduced a row of shops facing the piazza.