Sportsnet Studios
- Location
- Toronto, Canada
- Client
- Rogers Communications
- Expertise
- Architecture
- Lighting
- Completion
- 2021
- Cost
- Confidential
Rogers Sports & Media has created a new home for Sportsnet Studios, delivering an immersive sports experience that will enhance the network’s connection with its viewers whilst bringing the thrill of Hockey into people’s homes.
Our media environments team collaborated with production engineers, set, lighting and acoustical experts to design and renovate spaces within two existing office buildings in downtown Toronto into an all-encompassing sports hub. Sportsnet Studios features new video, sound and movement capture technology, delivering a prototype for future broadcast studios.
The 16,600 square foot facility incorporates sustainability and WELL standard practices and comprises a reception, green rooms, hair and make-up areas, change and wardrobe rooms, meeting/viewing and phone rooms, control room suites, an array of broadcast support areas and two broadcast studios that connect to form a single, large studio area.
The historic building was constructed as the former Confederation Life Insurance Company in 1956 with concrete encased steel structure and floor-to-floor heights intended for conventional office use. Care was taken to sensitively transform the existing buildings to create an innovative platform that enhances the working methodologies of the sportscasters and feed creativity and expression.
“The state-of-the-art technology, data capabilities and increased in-broadcast versatility allows the Sportsnet team to push the envelope and create interactive, immersive and innovative content. We truly thank all the consultants involved in bringing our vision of Sportsnet Studios into reality.”