Dominic McKenzie Architects creates industrial-style workplace for music studio

The music administration firm behind Lana Del Rey, Dua Lipa and Ellie Goulding has unveiled an expanded London workplace designed by Dominic McKenzie Architects.

Dominic McKenzie’s agency has doubled the dimensions of the music studio’s London headquarters by changing a former artist’s studio subsequent door.

The design celebrates the constructing’s industrial structure, with breeze-block partitions painted quite than lined over, metal staircases retained and new factory-style window partitions added.

Framed discs function on one wall, however in any other case there are few references to the studio’s shoppers within the decor. In keeping with McKenzie, the corporate needed to keep away from something which may look too jokey.

“Earlier designs tried to select up on a extra pop affect from among the artists’ movies, with concepts of color for steelwork and partitions, and a extra eclectic mixture of furnishings and lighting,” he informed Dezeen.

“However the shoppers needed to maintain it extra refined and classically industrial, to keep away from it wanting too kitsch.”

The brand new format sees the 2 beforehand separate items mixed, making a workspace organised round an open-plan, double-height area, with room for as much as 30 desks.

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Two assembly rooms are situated on a mezzanine degree above, together with a lounge area and a pair of smaller areas the place employees can go when they should work in privateness or make delicate cellphone calls.

Storage and bathroom services are tucked away on the rear of the bottom ground, as is a small “jet lag restoration room” containing a single mattress.

The commercial aesthetic is countered by the introduction of some hotter supplies and furnishings parts. As an example, the reception space options Michael Anastassiades-designed pendant lamps in brass, a blue velvet chair and a midcentury picket sideboard.

Brass particulars additionally function on door handles and lighting elsewhere, whereas oak was chosen for flooring and joinery.

The structure studio additionally designed bespoke desks for the principle workspace, combining oak surfaces with metal legs and built-in cable ports and trays.

“They did not need it to be too slavishly industrial,” mentioned McKenzie. “They needed it to have a cushty, nearly home, really feel too. The brass parts and extra luxurious furnishings add extra of this high quality.”

Dominic McKenzie Architects relies in Islington, north London. The studio additionally just lately accomplished Tower Home, a home extension that takes its cues from rural Italian structure.

Images is by Will Pryce.