FREE MEDIA FACILITIES DESIGN CENTER

(Exhibition Hall)

 

Consult MDA/DPX at Media Facilities Design Center
As experts in analyzing and designing the full content creation workplace for production of entertainment programming in tv, film,radio and news broadcasting, from corporate headquarters to production and transmission plants, MDA/DPX will exhibit at MITIL, Vevey, Switzerland, June 12-15th. In an innovative format, MDA/DPX will offer its design expertise through introductory consultations in a courtesy Media Facilities Design Center for those attending the trade show.

Describing the purpose of this free clinic, Meridian's Bice Wilson, AIA, said, "The shape of broadcasting facilities is undergoing tremendous change in the digital revolution. As conference participants apply what they learn at MITIL, it will change their workplace, and Meridian will be able to share some of our 20-plus years of experience in creating very successful and forward-looking media production environments."

Led by Bice C. Wilson, AIA, Managing Principal , and Antonio Argibay, AIA, Principal in charge of Design and Production, MDA is a 20 year-old design and planning firm specializing in studio/broadcast facility design. MDA has pioneered the new digital content creation paradigm, as well as being pioneers in community media production facilities.

The firm undertakes everything from long-term planning to site selection, political approvals, and full planning and architectural services and Project Management. The international staff of MDA/DPX is familiar with the business practices of many countries, from the US throughout the developed and the developing world.

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This Center is hosted by Meridian Design Associates, Architects, PC

Meridian Design Associates is a 20-year-old design and planning firm, lead by Bice C. Wilson, AIA, and Antonio Argibay, AIA. Wilson and Argibay are architects whose unique backgrounds include pioneering interactive telecommunications and video art in the 1970s. Now, with offices in New York's Soho district, Miami, and Geneva, Switzerland, and an association with a firm in New Delhi, India, ongoing clients include CBS/Viacom, Tribune, CNN, AOL Time Warner, ABC, NBC, Spanish Broadcasting System, and many other companies throughout the industry. Meridian Design Associates also works in the high-end hospitality and residential fields.

MDA has won awards for urban design and for practical implementation of the concept of bio-regionalism in regional planning. It is also known for its work in urban and suburban redevelopment, incuding the re-establishment of a social community in the design of what is now known as Willingboro Town Center, New Jersey, on what was previously a 57-acre abandoned shopping mall from the post-WWII Levittown developments.

Bringing its architectural expertise into an artistic context, MDA is developing The Global Music Project. Site specific sculptures located around the world in various regional installations will be triggered by the sun at high noon to create sound and video transmissions via multimedia technologies to the web, in an exploration of the integration of place, time and sound.

Studio City New York (www.studiocityny.com)
Seven years in development, this exciting facility of 15-stories and 700,000 square feet will have penthouse suites, five major studio spaces, post-production facilities and offices, all in one building with one central elevator core. Designed for total content creation of television, film, radio, commercial production, and news broadcasting, SCNY includes Media Flex Space, involving 60,000 square feet of relatively column-free loft area and 28-foot ceilings, which can be developed as needed into studios, newsrooms and other small production and post-production spaces.

SCNY will have several screening rooms, the largest of which can seat 300. The rooftop, on the 9th floor, has a one-acre backlot to accommodate production sets or enhance premieres and receptions with a dramatic Manhattan backdrop, as well as serving as a private park for the creative community.

The project development team includes Lehman Brothers, Hines, PB Group LLC, Pacifica Ventures and Meridian Design Associates.