The Bridge Recording Studio Build

[Greg Curtis]

Day 1. Demolition of old roof, skylights, roofing.




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Greg
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[Darius van H]

Great space!

How high are the roof girders?

[LeMauce]

Thats place is huge dude!
Good luck with the build up. But dont forget to post here everything about this story!

[Greg Curtis]

Originally Posted by Darius van H

Great space!

How high are the roof girders?

Thanks! it took over a year to find it!

They are presently at 12', but the 2 that are going to be in the live room (the open ceiling area in the photos) will be raised to about 28' to allow for a ~22-24' ceiling height.

We will have one large live room (~1,800 sq ft), 2 large iso's (~280 sq ft), and a very large (~800 sq ft) control room. It will be a Film and TV music scoring stage, so we are designing a nice sounding room.

96-channel Neve, ProTools, 3 Studers (2-2", 1-1/4 or 1/2" decks), etc...

Greg

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[Greg Curtis]

Roof gone, ready to cut trenches for the 2 grade beams and 4 6'x8'pads before lifting the 2 inner beams.





Partial trench for one of the 2 grade beams. Shoring up beam for widening of the cartage entrance, which means demo'ing a portion of the wall.



Saw-cutting through the wall!



Greg

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[Darius van H]

Great - looking forward to this!

How about a peak at the plans?

Who's the designer?

[Greg Curtis]

Jay Kaufman, of Kaufman and Associates. Incredible guy.

Kaufman & Associates

Greg

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[InSight]

Coming along nicely, its going to be huuuge , I'll definantly be keeping a close eye on this thread for any updates.

[Greg Curtis]

Demolition is done. Next week brings concrete pad pouring and steel grade-beam laying...

Greg

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[Greg Curtis]

Grade Beams ready to be poured...




Pad Holes, which will be full of rebar, are going to support the pillars which will hold the 2 raised girders.



Overall, things are going well.

GC

[Greg Curtis]

New Photos:

Diggin' the holes for pads and grade beam:



Grade Beam Poured:



Pad Poured:



Posts up!



Girders on the ground. We'll be putting them up, on top of the posts:



Connecting the steel skeleton:

[rainsinvelvet]

Nice work!
It seems to me that things are moving pretty fast on the construction end?

Eric

[Greg Curtis]

Originally Posted by rainsinvelvet

Nice work!
It seems to me that things are moving pretty fast on the construction end?

Eric

Yes! We have a great contractor.

This project is 2 years in the making. Most of the time was spent at Glendale City hall fighting through red tape...

Greg

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[Greg Curtis]

Ending the week with the interior steelwork nearly done.

This is the West wall's structural steel reinforcement system, which is mirrored on the West Wall. It is shown mounted, but not installed. Holes will be marked, then the steel removed, the holes drilled, the steel replaced, and then they will be bolted. Lots of time and labor here...



(That large, square hole will be bricked up next week. It was a pass-through from a past tenant that used the both this and the neighboring building. Both buildings are separate, with only a 3" gap between me and my two East and West neighbors.)



These are the struts that will have the door to the mic locker/storage in between and under them. To the right, in the middle of the wall, will be the CR glass, which is the North wall of the Live Room.



The Electrical Room Door will be between the strut pillar and the wall. This strut, and another at the other wall, mark the South end of the Live Room. (See last photo)



The Iso Rooms will be to the right of this 3rd strut system; the South end of the Live Room.



The 2 large (280 sq ft.) Iso's, and Control Room (800 sq. ft) will be built under the existing roof.

Next week should see the new steelwork done on the raised roof portion, including flying the old girders up to 25 feet to sit on the new pillars! Can't wait for that.


Greg

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[MichaelMackie]

That's gonna be a super rad space. I'm excited for more pictures. :]

[Kris]

thumbsup

[Greg Curtis]

I'll post more pictures soon. Lots of metalwork going up, and the overall superstructure will be completed by the end of the week, hopefully.

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[Greg Curtis]

All the structural steelwork is now done!

Raising a 50-foot wide beam to 25 feet:


Installing side member:


Preparing the other beam for installation:


Installing the final members:


There it is! Beautiful!


Just a little corner bracing:


Next week: Masonry

[Ozzy]

Bloody hell!

This place is gonna be amazing!

Hope you can get the ok to get the plans posted here, nothing more slutty than studio plans, I spent waaaaay too many hours at the JLsayers forum!

Keep up the good work.

Oz

[mikahanau]

I spent waaaaay too many hours at the JLsayers forum!

there can't be to many hours in spending time for research!!!!
I spend all my free time there since 3 years!!!
i'm happy to read all the good infos there!
cheers
Mika

[Greg Curtis]

The building is a big rectangle (6,500sq ft), with 3 parts making up the interior, from back to front: Live Room/Iso's, Control Room, and lounge/offices.

Without posting the plans, I can tell you that the live room, which will be under the raised roof, obviously, will be a rectangle, approx. 36x46ft, 20ft high (finished), 2 iso's under the eaves at the back of the building (280sq ft each). The control room will be an 800sq ft rectangle, short side looking out into the live room (17ft wide glass). No soffit monitors. Theatrical surround sound monitors built in (6 JBL 8330 speakers in a true diffuse theatrical array). Lounge, office, and bathrooms in front of building.

Nothing groundbreaking or wierd, just basic, sound design. The live room will indeed be live, with some nice reverb.

Greg

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[Berolzheimer]

Originally Posted by Greg Curtis

Yes! We have a great contractor.

This project is 2 years in the making. Most of the time was spent at Glendale City hall fighting through red tape...

Greg

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You're building this in Glendale? I feel for you. I've had my own interactions with their building department, it's no fun.
What part of town are you in? I'd love to come by & see it in progress.

I live in Adam's Hill, btw.

-Paul Berolzheimer

[Ozzy]

Originally Posted by mikahanau

there can't be to many hours in spending time for research!!!!
I spend all my free time there since 3 years!!!
i'm happy to read all the good infos there!
cheers
Mika

Dude, tell me about it! I love the JLS forum, leaned so much there.

Check out my thread, started '05!;
John Sayers' Recording Studio Design • View topic - Apologies in advance...


Heres my place finished and under construction;
John Sayers' Recording Studio Design • View topic - Hidden Track Studios

Oz

[Darius van H]

Greg, maybe you could post the plans like i did:.......low res jpegs which can't be used for anything other then getting a general idea.

This is a crazy, huge project......very curious to see how it develops.

[tombak]

This may be the largest studio construction thread I've ever seen. I'll be drinking my morning cup of tea following along here.

I'm curious to know what your build-out budget is not including any audio infrastructure....?

[Greg Curtis]

Originally Posted by Darius van H

Greg, maybe you could post the plans like i did:.......low res jpegs which can't be used for anything other then getting a general idea.

This is a crazy, huge project......very curious to see how it develops.

I'll do that. Good idea.

[Greg Curtis]

open

[Clueless]

It is big!

[Greg Curtis]

We bought the 96-Channel Neve VRP Legend from Paramount Stage M:



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[captainvimmes]

OMG :O i want that NEVE!!!!! i'll give you £100 for it lol :P