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We Imagine Future Cities

Our global perspectives set the stage for vibrant experiences.

Echelon Studios rendering of the exterior facade with Hollywood hills backdrop

Media, entertainment + Content Production

Studio as Campus diagram

Becoming a Content Creation Campus

Entertainment Revolution

The landscape of media and entertainment has changed significantly over time from a soundstage hub into a more complete, amenity-rich campus for content creation. This content campus typology is more efficient, placing the aspects of the creative and production process in direct adjacency, but it also enhances the workplace appeal by virtue of the amenitization of the campus.

Andy Lantz Headshot

"Our projects represent an incredible opportunity to rethink the footprint of the production industry and create a new paradigm for the future of media."

— Andy Lantz, Creative Director, Co-CEO

Sparks Fly

Wood and metal production studio facade surrounded by plants

Building Spatial Relationships

The demands of media integration, management, and technology require a greater ratio of office space to soundstage space, a trend driving the campus setting.  With more production work taking place in an office setting alongside traditional soundstage and back lot functions, the overall relationship between production, support space, and office space is changing.

New Media,
New Mediums:
The Urban Campus

Industry in a footprint diagram

Traditionally, components of an industry are scattered across the city, but content creation can exist at the scale of the singular building. At the Spotify Campus in Downtown Los Angeles, an artist can arrive in the morning and over one day, consolidate the experiences of three days within a singular facility. The notion of the building as a campus choreographs unique moments of overlap between the spectrum of the industry — artists, music producers, podcast hosts, and more — to create a place where engagement, exchange, and celebration happen at once.

As the urban campus densifies alongside the city, it borrows from urban design principles to be organized yet exploratory, serendipitous, and much like the experience of the city that surrounds it.

AMDA at Vine Center performance court rendering

Selected Projects

Our ideas come to life through collaboration with our clients. The following projects represent some exemplary partnerships.

Corner street view of Echelon Studios with large windows and balconies

Echelon Studios

Located in the midst of the beloved movie studio lots of Hollywood, Echelon Studios is conceived as a vertical movie studio lot.

The proposed entrance and genessee gate at Television City 2050 featuring an enhanced landscape and urban activity

Television City 2050

The TVC 2050 Specific Plan will reaffirm Television City as a premier production facility for decades to come.

brightly lit room with colorful mural on walls

Spotify Content Campus

A multipurpose workplace inspired by Los Angeles’ music culture and the concept of a hackable work environment with a variety of collaboration areas.

AMDA Vine Center Exterior

AMDA at Vine Center

This Hollywood campus  design proposes bridging the gap between entertainment education and industry expertise.

NBCU Master Plan

NBC Universal Master Plan

This master plan aligns with NBC Universal’s vision and supports sustainability goals.

Paramount plaza with buildings in the background

Paramount Pictures Master Plan

We’re defining a master plan for Paramount Pictures that protects the historic and production core, preparing the site for the future.

The exterior of the Harlow production building

Harlow at Sunset Las Palmas

Steeped in history and designed for the future, Harlow is located at Sunset Las Palmas Studios, a historic Hollywood production lot.

aerial view of columbia square

Columbia Square

This creative campus plan embraces the site’s history by reusing historic studio and storefront spaces and connecting the neighborhood with sustainable tactics. 

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Mixed-Use District Making

Districts are magnetic fields that draw people in search of an authentic experience. We compose destinations that are rich in character, culture, and social life while being unique and identifiable places in the world.

Designing The Future Workplace

The workplace has always been in constant evolution. It requires flexible and dynamic solutions, informed by data and culture, that are resilient to circumstances and trend. We’re dedicated to solving workplace challenges for short-and long-term impacts.

The Art of Science

We design spaces where collaboration, inspiration, and creativity are sparked through dynamic and colorful spaces that bring joy, moments infused with art and interest, corners to focus and ponder, intersections that initiate serendipity, and nature that permeates the interiors and connects users to greater forces of wellness and wellbeing.

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interior view of the top of the Ellison stairs with a wooden ceiling and plants lining the rails
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