The Foster + Partners studio has been appointed by Hackman Capital Partners following an international competition to transform the Television City studio complex in the city of Los Angeles, located in California, USA. The project renovates a space that dates back to the mid-century XX, focusing on the restoration of William Pereira's 1952 buildings.
 
The development includes new creative spaces in low-rise buildings containing retail throughout its perimeter, located in a new flexible low-carbon structural network. The project seeks to mark a new line of sustainable development that thinks about city life focusing on the community.
The Foster + Partners project proposes new sound stages, production offices, and space for creative offices around William Pereira's buildings. The studio is organized through two distinctive zones, which focus on content production and media operations, with production offices adjacent to the new stages to improve efficiency and collaboration between departments.
 
“We are designing a creative multi-modal campus that celebrates Television City’s 70-year history and sets a new benchmark for the entertainment industry. It’s a great privilege to breathe new life into Pereira’s iconic and inherently flexible building, which forms the heart of our modular scheme. The campus is designed to embody L.A.’s innovative spirit, while integrating seamlessly with the city fabric and reinvigorating the surrounding streets at a human-scale.”
David Summerfield, studio director at Foster + Partners.


Rendering. Television City 2050 by Foster + Partners.

The new campus is located on a site of more than 10 hectares (25 acres) where buildings are flooded with natural light and linked by tree-lined pedestrian boulevards, pocket parks and courtyards to enhance community well-being. The retail is located at street level and functions as an activation on the perimeter of the studio, causing a positive social impact on the surrounding area.

Television City L.A. It becomes the first all-electric studio thanks to the choice of locally sourced low-carbon materials, the production of renewable energy on site and the presence of abundant vegetation. Added to these strategies is a new mobility center, with a Transportation Demand Management (TDM) program that reduces vehicle trips by up to 30 percent.
 
“We are completely reimagining filmmaking and content production by creating an interconnected green campus with people at its centre. Working with a low-carbon structural grid allows us to craft a flexible and collaborative environment, which can adapt to changing needs well into the future.”
Armstrong Yakubu, Senior Partner at Foster + Partners.

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Norman Foster is considered by many to be the most prominent architect in Britain. He won the 1999 Pritzker Architecture Prize and the 2009 Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes Prize.

Lord Foster rebuilt the Reichstag as a new German Parliament in Berlin and designed a contemporary Great Court for the British Museum. He linked St. Paul's Cathedral to the Tate Modern with the Millennium Bridge, a steel footbridge across the Thames. He designed the Hearst Corporation Building in Manhattan, at 57th Street and Eighth Avenue.

He was born in Manchester, England, in 1935. Among his firm’s many other projects are London’s City Hall, the Bilbao Metro in Spain, the Canary Wharf Underground Station in London and the renovated courtyard of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery in Washington.

In the 1970s, Lord Foster was one of the most visible practitioners of high-tech architecture that fetishized machine culture. His triumphant 1986 Hong Kong and Shanghai bank building, conceived as a kit-of-parts plugged into a towering steel frame, was capitalism's answer to the populist Pompidou Center in Paris.

Nicolai Ouroussoff, The Times’s architecture critic, has written that although Lord Foster’s work has become sleeker and more predictable in recent years, his forms are always driven by an internal structural logic, and they treat their surroundings with a refreshing bluntness.

Awarded the Prince of Asturias of the Arts 2009.

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