Jan 11, 2017

Take a tour inside Nick's new state-of-the-art Burbank Building, which officially opened today (11 photos)

Nickelodeon held a ribbon-cutting ceremony this afternoon to open their new studio building in Burbank, California, right next door to their current studio.

The new building includes a 400-pound statue of Stimpy in a Zen garden. The sustainable building, which will attempt to get LEED Gold Certification, expands the overall Burbank complex to over 200,000 square-feet, and will be able to accommodate more than 700 employees working on over 20 show productions. Nick quickly outgrew its original Burbank building, which opened in 1998, and until now, had been renting various office buildings in the area for more than a decade.

Shows that are currently being made there include The Loud House, SpongeBob SquarePants, Shimmer and Shine, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Here's some other highlights of the campus:

To help optimize energy-efficient performance for LEED certification, a Nick press release explains that “lighting power is reduced by over 50% through efficient LED fixtures, lighting controls, and use of daylighting. Priority was also placed on use of healthy and environmental building materials, such as low-emitting flooring and paint, and use of products with high recycled and regional content.”

STUDIOS Architecture, ARC Engineering, and Brightworks Sustainability led the design process for the new building.

Here's some photos of the pristine building before the artists take over the asylum: