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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
control room
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The satellite's launch brought cheers from the mission control room.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A visitor to the control room of this nuclear missile submarine might pass it by without a second thought.
▪ In accordance with local procedures, he had locked the control room door to prevent unauthorised access.
▪ In the immediate vicinity, sensitive monitors relay readings back to the central control room.
▪ The competition, in its eighth year, was organised by Wytch Farm control room operator Dave Handley.
▪ This interface takes its physical form in the control room.
▪ Unlike radio, the anchor / readers do not have to be in eye contact with the control room.
▪ You see engineers in the control room.
Wiktionary
control room

n. 1 The area inside a recording studio designed to facilitate the mix of audio for studio recordings. 2 A room serving as the centre of monitoring a building, control an operation etc.

WordNet
control room

n. a room housing control equipment (as in a recording studio)

Wikipedia
Control Room (film)

Control Room is a 2004 documentary film about Al Jazeera and its relations with the US Central Command ( CENTCOM), as well as the other news organizations that covered the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Made by Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim, the film was distributed by Magnolia Pictures (owned by 2929 Entertainment).

People featured in the film include Lieutenant Josh Rushing, a press officer from US Central Command, David Shuster, an NBC correspondent, and Tom Mintier, a CNN correspondent. Al Jazeera was represented by Samir Khader, a senior producer, Hassan Ibrahim, a Sudanese journalist who attended American universities and headed the BBC Arab News Service before joining Al Jazeera, and Dima Khatib, a Syrian journalist and a producer at Al Jazeera. Samir Khader later became the editor of Al-Jazeera. Josh Rushing started working for Al Jazeera English in 2006, Shuster started working for Al Jazeera America in 2013.

Control room

A control room, operations center, or operations control center (OCC) is a room serving as a central space where a large physical facility or physically dispersed service can be monitored and controlled.

Usage examples of "control room".

We must seize the control room of the Wanderer if we're to save the ship.

If your timetable is correct, we should be entering the control room just about the same time Scotty is bringing the first of those fusion plants back on line.

And it's very close to where the control room is supposed to be located.