Taxi House, London: Co-Living and Hotel AV Across 332 Rooms

332 Samsung hospitality TVs, zoned Q-SYS audio from the spa to the 10th-floor terraces, and a 110 inch screening room for Taxi House in Westbourne Park.

Corporate

Completed January 2026

Project leadDerek Pyle, Operations Director

Quick reference: Co-living and hotel AV for Taxi House (Mason & Fifth Westbourne Park), a 332-room, 12-storey flexible-stay building on the Grand Union Canal in west London: 332 Samsung hospitality TVs, one Q-SYS Core 110f driving zoned audio from the reception and co-working floors to the gym, fitness studio, sauna, steam room, pool and 10th-floor terraces, resident touch panels and Bluetooth inputs, and a screening room with a 110 inch LG display and Extron surround sound.

A 332-room co-living and hotel building on the canal

Taxi House is a 332-room, 12-storey flexible-stay building on the Grand Union Canal in Westbourne Park, west London, built for Cheyne Capital on the site of the former London taxi drivers' headquarters and now operated by Mason & Fifth. Guests and residents can stay for a night or for months, so the building mixes hotel-style rooms with the shared spaces of a co-living scheme: a reception and lounge, co-working floors, a gym, fitness studio, treatment room, spa with sauna, steam room and pool, a screening room and a 10th floor with a lounge, library, workspace, communal kitchen, listening room and terraces. Strive AV delivered the AV across all of it over two years, working with the electrical contractor and fit-out teams as the design evolved: a TV in every room, music in every shared space, and a cinema-standard screening room.

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"I would recommend Strive AV. They've been great partners to work with. This was such a detailed project—it was never going to be easy. You need agility, you need flexibility, and in my dealings with the wider team at Strive, I've certainly felt they've been agile to our approach and flexible to our needs. We've been delighted with the support we've received."

Dylan Murray, Operations Director, Mason & Fifth

The challenge: hotel rooms, co-living spaces and a spa on one system

The brand promise is that every stay feels like home, and music and in-room entertainment carry a lot of that. The audio had to cover very different spaces from one system: a busy reception, quiet co-working floors, a gym and fitness studio that need real volume, and a spa where speakers have to survive the heat and humidity of a sauna and steam room and the moisture of a pool hall. The screening room needed proper surround sound, every one of the 332 rooms needed a commercial TV guests could cast to, and requirements changed over a two-year programme, so the design had to stay flexible while the building went up around it.

Key Requirements

•A commercial TV with casting in all 332 rooms
•Zoned music across reception, co-working, gym, studio, spa and terraces from one system
•Speakers that survive sauna, steam room and poolside conditions
•Cinema-standard surround sound in the screening room
•Simple controls residents can use without staff
•Flexibility through a two-year programme with changing requirements

One Q-SYS system, a TV in every room and a screening room

Strive AV built the shared-space audio around a Q-SYS Core 110f with a QIO-GP8x8 expander, seven Crown DCI Dante amplifiers and four Sonos Port streamers, networked over Netgear M4250 AV switches. Speakers are matched to each space: JBL Control 28-1 and Control 68HP pendants in the entrance lobby, JBL SLP pendants in the reception, library, workspace and lift lobbies, Control 64 pendants on the co-working and breakout floors, Martin Audio X8 speakers with an X115 subwoofer in the gym, JBL AC195 speakers with an AC115 subwoofer in the fitness studio, and speakers rated for sauna, steam room and poolside use in the spa. Outdoor JBL speakers serve the canalside terrace and the 10th-floor communal, dining and private terraces. Residents and staff control their own spaces from Q-SYS touch panels in the reception, gym, studio, treatment room, library and communal kitchen, with Bluetooth input plates in the gym, studio, treatment room and library. The 10th-floor listening room has a four-channel DJ system with Martin Audio subwoofers. The screening room combines a 110 inch LG 4K display with an Extron SSP-200 surround processor, Monitor Audio and in-wall speakers, an in-ceiling subwoofer, a Blu-ray player and streaming, run from its own Q-SYS Core Nano and a 10 inch touch panel. Every room has a Samsung hospitality TV (305 at 43 inches and 27 at 32 inches) set up with TV management and casting, and the system is backed by a two-year service contract.

What went into each space
Space	Audio	Video and control
Guest and resident rooms (332)		Samsung hospitality TVs: 305 at 43 inches, 27 at 32 inches, with TV management and casting
Entrance, reception and lounges	JBL Control 28-1, Control 68HP and SLP pendant speakers	Q-SYS TSC-101 touch panel at reception
Co-working and breakout floors	JBL Control 64 pendants and Control 28-1 speakers	Zoned from the central system
Gym and fitness studio	Martin Audio X8 with X115 subwoofer (gym); JBL AC195 with AC115 subwoofer (studio)	Q-SYS touch panels and Bluetooth inputs in both
Spa: sauna, steam room and pool	Speakers rated for heat, humidity and poolside use	Zoned from the central system
Screening room	Extron SSP-200 surround processor, Monitor Audio and in-wall speakers, in-ceiling subwoofer	LG 110 inch 4K display, Blu-ray and streaming, Q-SYS Core Nano, 10 inch touch panel
10th floor and terraces	JBL outdoor speakers on the communal, dining, private and canalside terraces; DJ system with Martin Audio subwoofers in the listening room	Touch panels in the library and communal kitchen, Bluetooth input in the library
Headend	Q-SYS Core 110f, QIO-GP8x8, 7 Crown DCI Dante amplifiers, 4 Sonos Port streamers	Netgear M4250 AV switching

Featured Solution

332 Hospitality TVs

Samsung commercial TVs in every room (305 at 43 inches, 27 at 32 inches) with TV management and casting.

One Q-SYS System

Q-SYS Core 110f, seven Crown Dante amplifiers and Sonos sources serve every shared space and terrace.

Gym, Studio and Spa

Martin Audio and JBL systems with subwoofers for training, and speakers rated for sauna, steam and pool.

Screening Room

110 inch LG 4K display, Extron SSP-200 surround processing and its own Q-SYS Core Nano.

Video by @BétonBureau

Products used

Samsung HG43AU800EE
Samsung HG32EJ690WE
QSC Core 110f
QSC Core Nano
Q-SYS QIO-GP8x8
Q-SYS TSC-101-G3
Q-SYS TSC-50-G3
QSC unD610-BT
Crown DCI 8|300DA

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Crown DCI 4|1250DA
Sonos Port
JBL Control 28-1
JBL Control 68HP
JBL SLP14/T
JBL Control 64 P/T
JBL AC195
Martin Audio X8
Martin Audio X115
LG 110UM5K
Extron SSP-200
Monitor Audio Radius 90
Netgear M4250

The result

Project Success

332 rooms and every shared space handed over
Residents control music in the spaces they use
Delivered over two years as the design evolved, with ongoing support

Questions about co-living and hotel AV

What AV does a co-living or flexible-stay building need?

At Taxi House it came down to three layers: a commercial TV in every room that guests can cast to, zoned music in every shared space (reception, co-working, gym, studio, spa, terraces) from one central system, and standout spaces such as a screening room and a DJ-equipped listening room. Residents control their own zones from touch panels and Bluetooth inputs. More on AV for hotels.

Can you put speakers in a sauna, steam room or pool hall?

Yes, with speakers rated for the conditions. At Taxi House the sauna, steam room and poolside areas use speakers built for heat, humidity and moisture, zoned on the same Q-SYS system as the rest of the building so staff control the spa music from the same place as everywhere else.

How many TVs does a 332-room co-living building need?

One per room. Taxi House has 332 Samsung hospitality TVs: 305 at 43 inches and 27 at 32 inches for the smaller rooms, all commercial models set up with TV management and casting so guests can stream from their own phones. See hotel TV systems for how the options compare.

What goes into a residents' screening room?

At Taxi House: a 110 inch LG 4K display, an Extron SSP-200 surround processor decoding the surround channels, Monitor Audio and in-wall speakers with an in-ceiling subwoofer, a Blu-ray player and streaming, all run from a 10 inch Q-SYS touch panel so residents can start a film without staff.