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Spotify At Mateo Campus Los Angeles
Spotify At Mateo Campus Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Finalist, 2023 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Branding
Popular Winner, 2023 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Workspace
Project Featured on Aug 09, 2023
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Spotify At Mateo Campus Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Finalist, 2023 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Branding
Popular Winner, 2023 A+Awards, Concepts - Architecture +Workspace
Project Featured on Aug 09, 2023
Spotify Content Campus combines three DTLA buildings on one site, creating a unified creative campus where 540 musicians, podcasters, and producers work across the full content lifecycle. RIOS unified 154,000 square feet of multi-disciplinary production space into a campus modeled on LA's own music culture.
Los Angeles runs on music, but its creative infrastructure keeps disciplines apart. Recording studios, podcast facilities, and video production spaces operate independently, separating artists from the teams that bring their work to audiences.
Spotify acquired three adjacent buildings in Downtown Los Angeles to create a single campus that integrates every stage of content creation — a place where musicians, podcasters, and producers coinhabit a space and foster a new creative culture. The project was a commitment to a new model for how music and media get made.
RIOS approached the three buildings as an urban system, drawing on the Arts District's layered industrial history and informal gathering energy. Three site organization models were developed, each increasing internal visibility. The model that was selected prioritized connection, linked buildings through choreographed pathways, and treats movement between spaces like traversing city blocks.
Since opening in 2021, the campus has operated as a single creative ecosystem. The program spans 27 podcast rooms, a 2,500-square-foot recording studio, a 72-seat Dolby-certified screening room, and a 725-person performance venue. Artists from FINNEAS to Kalush Orchestra have recorded here alongside incubator programs and like Spotify’s Sound Up.
Artists can enter the campus both publicly and privately. Private entry points, preferred by established artists, connect directly to secluded greenrooms out of the public eye. The public entrance, preferred by emerging artists, moves from the main street to Spotify’s front doors, passing through listening lounges, open work areas, and stages for pop-up performances. The entry sequences allows artists and Spotify staff to fully integrate, while providing discretion and security for those who need it.
Los Angeles runs on music, but its creative infrastructure keeps disciplines apart. Recording studios, podcast facilities, and video production spaces operate independently, separating artists from the teams that bring their work to audiences.
Spotify acquired three adjacent buildings in Downtown Los Angeles to create a single campus that integrates every stage of content creation — a place where musicians, podcasters, and producers coinhabit a space and foster a new creative culture. The project was a commitment to a new model for how music and media get made.
RIOS approached the three buildings as an urban system, drawing on the Arts District's layered industrial history and informal gathering energy. Three site organization models were developed, each increasing internal visibility. The model that was selected prioritized connection, linked buildings through choreographed pathways, and treats movement between spaces like traversing city blocks.
Since opening in 2021, the campus has operated as a single creative ecosystem. The program spans 27 podcast rooms, a 2,500-square-foot recording studio, a 72-seat Dolby-certified screening room, and a 725-person performance venue. Artists from FINNEAS to Kalush Orchestra have recorded here alongside incubator programs and like Spotify’s Sound Up.
Artists can enter the campus both publicly and privately. Private entry points, preferred by established artists, connect directly to secluded greenrooms out of the public eye. The public entrance, preferred by emerging artists, moves from the main street to Spotify’s front doors, passing through listening lounges, open work areas, and stages for pop-up performances. The entry sequences allows artists and Spotify staff to fully integrate, while providing discretion and security for those who need it.
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