By Sherrie Negrea How are higher ed institutions doing in recognizing the importance of acoustics and noise control in new and existing learning spaces? What’s one thing you wish campus administrators understood better about acoustics? “My core belief is that architecture and acoustics could (and should) be thought of at the same moment—and very early [...]
Jackie Chan’s “Nothing Is The Same As Before” Caps 18 Week #1 Chart Ride By Howard Sherman BEIJING, CHINA: How do you follow a track record of nine Top Ten China hits (including six #1’s) in your first six months of operation? If you’re WSDG Walters-Storyk Design Group-designed 55TEC Studios you record an additional Top Ten China Hits over the following [...]
How Being Bored One Day Launched a Legendary Architecture Career Working With Clients Like Bruce Springsteen and Jay-Z Listen in as acoustic architect John Storyk shares the moment that sparked an iconic career. What is the secret ingredient that music legends like Jimi Hendrix, Alicia Keys, Jay-Zand Bruce Springsteen all shared while recording some of [...]
With a modern art collection that had outgrown the collective capacity of their two homes, and unwilling to keep their larger works in storage, American art-collector Nancy Olnick and her Sardinia-born husband Giorgio Spanu found themselves contemplating a 14,000sq-ft steel and concrete former industrial warehouse (c1964) in Cold Spring, New York close to their weekend [...]
NEWARK, NJ — Walters-Storyk Design Group recently helped Audible Recording Studios, here, enlarge and totally reconfigure their in-house facilities. The 21-year-old company is one of the world’s largest producers and distributors of downloadable audiobooks and other spoken-word entertainment. “We first worked with Audible in 2007, when we were retained to design their original studios for [...]
Nominees for 34th Annual NAMM TEC Awards Announced Best Studio Design Project: SONASTERIO STUDIOS NASHVILLE – June 28, 2018 – Earlier today at Summer NAMM, pro audio professionals and leading industry brands gathered to recognize and celebrate the announcement of the 34th annual NAMM TEC Award nominees at a special pro audio reception held in [...]
A Baker’s Dozen of This Year’s Coolest New Studios Barbara Schultz Each June, Mix surveys facility designers and acousticians for their latest studio projects. This year’s “class” includes facilities in major and smaller U.S. markets, as well as new rooms and redesigns in Toronto, Monterrey and Rome. For more photos of these studios and others, visit mixonline.com. [...]
By John W. Barry A Farm Hub being created Ulster County will help make the local food system more resilient, train new and existing farmers and combat agricultural challenges, organizers said. Emily Stewart/Poughkeepsie Journal. Radio Kingston is laying the groundwork for an expansion. The Ulster County-based AM radio station (WKNY/1490 AM) has a pending application before the Federal Communications Commission for [...]
Want to Read Michael Lewis’s Next Work? You’ll Be Able to Listen to It First By Alexandra Alter When Michael Lewis had an idea for his next book, a contemporary political narrative, he decided he would test it out first as a 10,000-word magazine article, as he often does before committing to a yearslong project. [...]
The Diner A monumental collaboration between David Rockwell and Surface Magazine for Milan Design Week 2018 April 17–22, 2018, Via Ferrante Aporti 11, Milan Celebrated New York architect David Rockwell and his studio the Rockwell Group has teamed up with Surface magazine to celebrate its 25th anniversary with The Diner, a celebration of American design, presented as [...]
