John Storyk

WSDG educational facility design credits include distance-learning facilities for Hunter College in New York City (2016), the Ross School in East Hampton, New York, the $6.8 million NYU Steinhardt James L. Dolan Recording/Teaching/Research Complex in New York City (2009), the Berklee Music Education/Production Complex at 160 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston (2014), Berklee Valencia in Valencia, Spain (2012), Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2017), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York (2018), ICESI University in Cali, Colombia (2020), and Concordia University Irvine in Irvine, California (2020).

WSDG recording studio credits include Alicia Keys' and Ann Mincieli's Jungle City Studios a $6+ million New York City ‘Destination Studio’ completed in 2011, which was featured in the New York Times and Vanity Fair, and recognized with a TEC Award. In 2013, multi-Grammy & Academy Award-winning producer Paul Epworth utilized WSDG for the renovation of The Church Studios in London. WSDG-designed 55TEC Studios in Beijing opened in May 2017, producing nearly a dozen China Top-ten hits in its first ten months, including six #1’s. Storyk and WSDG's credits range from large recording facilities in Kuala Lumpur to New York City’s Jazz at Lincoln Center performance complex, Le Poisson Rouge and Feinstein's/54 Below, to studios in Argentina, Brazil, Europe and China.

In 1987, Storyk and his wife Beth Walters co-founded Walters-Storyk Design Group (WSDG). WSDG has produced the design and construction of over 3500 world-class audio and video production facilities, recording studios, radio stations, corporate media and conference rooms, educational, sports and entertainment facilities, clubs, restaurants and theaters. WSDG maintains a staff of fifty designers and engineers, and offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Buenos Aires, Belo Horizonte, Basel, Berlin, Beijing, Barcelona, Mexico City, Mumbai, and St. Petersburg.

WSDG is an eleven-time winner of the TEC Award for outstanding achievement in Acoustics/Facility Design, and since the debut of the TEC Awards in 1985, thirty WSDG studio design projects have been nominated (including four multiple-entry nominations).

As an aspiring musician and architecture student at Princeton and Columbia Universities, Storyk’s career has followed a natural pursuit of his two favorite subjects. After graduating from Princeton University in 1968, Storyk's first commission was for Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studios in New York City's Greenwich Village, a studio that continues to be utilized by notable acts ranging from Adele to Daft Punk and Ed Sheeran.

John Storyk (born May 10, 1946) is a registered architect and acoustician who, together with wife and business partner Beth Walters, co-founded Walters-Storyk Design Group (WSDG). Beginning in 1968 with Electric Lady Studios for Jimi Hendrix in New York City, and founding partner (with wife and business partner Beth Walters) of Walters-Storyk Design Group. Soon to celebrate his 50th anniversary as an innovative recording studio designer, he began his career in 1968 with Electric Lady Studios for Jimi Hendrix in New York City, Storyk and WSDG have produced the provided design, system integration, and construction supervision services for nearly 4000 professional audio recording and video production/post-production studios, performance venues, sports venues, houses of worship and educational facilities. His work includes private studios for Jay-Z, Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys, Whitney Houston, Bob Marley, Aerosmith, Green Day, Goo Goo Dolls and R. Kelly.