Studios and Headquarters

Television and Film Production

Best known as home to the Oprah Winfrey show, Harpo Studios adapted an existing 1920s-era studio building to the industry’s highest production and security standards. Production studios had to be acoustically isolated from mechanical systems dealing with the unusual cooling loads created by studio lighting systems. Careful design also improved the poor acoustic isolation of the existing building envelope.

The multi-building ‘campus’ of studios was a catalyst for neighborhoodneighbourhood redevelopment. The Deco-influenced architecture alludes to past entertainment glories, but also gives modern vitality to what is necessarily a windowless building a. SNHA designed a wide range of production and office facilities over the course of a decade for this dynamic, ever-evolving company.