The Kursaal Engelberg was reopened at the beginning of the year after extensive conversion and renovation work. Various technical upgrades and installations were also carried out as part of this work. One of the biggest challenges for the companies involved was to maintain the excellent room acoustics of the popular event location steeped in history [...]
Pictured here L to R are Matt Ballos, John Storyk, Josh Morris and Will Brown. WSDG is proud to be a member of the design team awarded the prestigious 2022 IIDA Los Angeles Chapter CALIBRE Award in recognition of their collaboration on the Spotify Production Complex at L.A.’s Mateo Campus. Nominated by [...]
Isabel Keane, Poughkeepsie Journal The bark is worse than the bite — a fact the Dutchess County SPCA recently learned to be true. The sounds of howls and barks have resounded the SPCA's hallway since an expansion in 2015. More than simply headaches for the staff, the sharp echoes caused anxiety for the animals the Hyde [...]
Continuously explore new ideas and solutions, but lean on the shoulders of your heroes from time to time. And here I thought 2020-21 was drama filled. Good news: COVID-19 is fading away. Bad news: Ukraine. Seems we’ve had enough drama for five years! Fortunately, we all continue to share our love for music, art, and [...]
(l-t-r: Daniel Thompson, Kristina Fisk, John Storyk and Sophiamarie Agosto) WSDG congratulates this year’s recipients of the the Storyk/Molho Family Scholarship Award - Berklee College of Music students Kristina Fisk and Sophiamarie Agosto. This award was established in July 2018 with a gift to Berklee College of Music ("The Institution") of $20,000 by [...]
John Storyk: DCSPCA Animal Advocate of the Year Perhaps it was serendipity that brought John Storyk, the world-renowned acoustic architect, to the animal shelter in Hyde Park. When he walked into the "Dog Village" area, he immediately noticed the reverberation, volume and distortion of sound in the hallway. If it was uncomfortable for humans, imagine [...]
by Frances Marion Platt, March 17, 2022 in Business, Stage & Screen For 28 years now, since the Paul Newman movie Nobody’s Fool was shot in Beacon and Hudson, we’ve been hearing about how the Hudson Valley was going to become the New Hollywood. The pot of gold at the end of that rainbow has [...]
When the Avalon Theatre opened in 1922, vaudeville was king, silent movies cost about 15 cents, Buster Keaton was all the rage, women wanted to be flappers, men wore their hair heavy with pomade, and everyone danced the Charleston. As we celebrate the birthday of “The Showplace of the Eastern Shore,” we thought it would [...]
Our Latin Team had their first in-person meeting since 2020 this week in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Team members from across the region joined together to collaborate on the next wave of exciting WSDG projects. Pictured here left to right: Federico Paez - Leandro Kirjner (up) - Gustavo Perezlindo (down) - Andres Solbelzon (down) - Melisa [...]
