The Studios, Seattle Public Building Interior, Contemporary Washington Performance Venue, Architecture Photos
The Studios in Seattle
Acting, Dance, and Music Venue Development, Seattle, USA – design by Graham Baba Architects
Sep 26, 2018
The Studios, Times Square Building
Design: Graham Baba Architects
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA
The Studios
The Studios is a 10,000-square-foot venue dedicated to the disciplines of acting, dance, and music. Occupying two floors of the historic Carl Gould-designed Times Square Building (constructed in 1916), the project transforms a dated, street-level retail space and basement into a bustling community and arts educational center.

Composed of seven rentable studios, The Studios was established to fill a city-wide void in state-of-the-art space for rehearsals, auditions, readings, recording sessions, and performances.
With four 1,000-square-foot studios, two flexible classrooms, and a recording studio set within the walls of a former bank vault, the facility provides a venue to incubate and launch local talent, and meet the growing demand for flexible performance space. Studio floors are sprung for dancing; two of the basement floors have resilient flooring for specialized dance and dance shoes, such as ballet point, and tap.

Having served a variety of uses over the past century, the surface conditions of the building walls, floors, and ceiling plane were in poor condition. The design concept for The Studios was to create...