Dominic McKenzie Architects creates industrial-style workplace for Faucet Music

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 Faucet Music’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 moderately than lined over, metal staircases retained and new factory-style window partitions added.

Framed discs characteristic on one wall, however in any other case there are few references to Faucet Music’s shoppers within the decor. In response to McKenzie, the corporate wished to keep away from something which may look too jokey.

“Earlier designs tried to select up on a extra pop affect from a few of 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 wished to maintain it extra refined and classically industrial, to keep away from it wanting too kitsch.”

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

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

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

The economic aesthetic is countered by the introduction of some hotter supplies and furnishings components. 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 characteristic on door handles and lights elsewhere, whereas oak was chosen for flooring and joinery.

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

“They did not need it to be too slavishly industrial,” stated McKenzie. “They wished it to have a snug, virtually home, really feel too. The brass components and extra luxurious furnishings add extra of this high quality.”

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

Images is by Will Pryce.