The design of the Spotify At Mateo Campus in Los Angeles’s Arts District meets the challenge Spotify outlined for a visionary model to support their hypergrowth as an audio platform.
The campus encompasses three buildings, with spaces that represent the full industry process from music creation to podcast recording to creative workplace.
An array of highly technical but intuitive recording studios, listening rooms, writers’ rooms, and editing suites bring a casual vibe to the creation process. The performance stage and screening rooms emphasize the scale at which the facility can invite both new and top talent. Amenities like the food hall, coffee bar, and pitstops create a series of casual cafes, more like a social club than a workplace.
Overall, the design incorporates interesting and diverse palettes to create a place that envelopes the users in an audio journey allowing for artists and creators to use the facility as a backdrop in content capture.
Project: Spotify At Mateo Campus Los Angeles
Firm: RIOS
Popular Winner, 11th Annual A+Awards, Architecture +Workspace
