The new Virtua Health Replacement Hospital Campus is a 368-bed, 680,000 sq. ft. regional medical center that provides specialized, high-level care in a family centered atmosphere. The campus is located in Vorhees, NJ. The building design was based around the…
This transformative project finally gives DePaul's School of Music a facility that matches the quality of its faculty and students. The first phase is the Holtschneider Performance Center, a new 144,000 gsf music building with a unique 505-seat concert hall…
The Overture Center for the Arts created a beautiful new home for the major arts organizations of Madison. The centerpiece of the project is the 2,250-seat Overture Hall, a stunning new room for symphony, opera, dance, and musical theater. A…
The Bowld supports a full symphony orchestra in rehearsal and a full choir, chamber musicians or soloists in performance. With fixed seating for 190 and room for adding loose chairs, the room can accommodate an audience as large as 300.…
The new TCU Pavilion offers a huge step forward in the concert going experience for performers and audiences alike. Kirkegaard worked with Axis Architecture and Theatre Projects Consultants from the earliest planning stages to work out a comprehensive approach to…
Northwestern’s new Center for the Musical Arts building is located just south of the university’s Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, near the theater building and art museum. It wraps around Regenstein Hall, a brutalist music building from the 1970s, enabling the Bienen…
The Sandler Center for the Performing Arts in Virginia Beach’s Town Center is the heart of an innovative urban development business district. It has helped defined the new downtown by the addition of a first-rate cultural arts attraction for Virginia…
For decades, Hancher Auditorium has been both the largest performance space for the University of Iowa and the premier civic performing arts center for southeast Iowa. Over the years, it has presented a varied and ambitious slate of artists, including…
The new 5 story, permanent BYC at 1023 West Irving Park Road, a long, narrow site fronting on Irving Park near Sheridan Rd. The facility includes behavioral health offices, medical space and administrative offices; classrooms, recreational space and community programming…
The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, on the south edge of University of Chicago’s Midway Plaisance, is a beacon for the arts. The 184,000 sf building draws students, faculty, artists and community together to celebrate the creative…
The centerpiece of the Cobb Energy PAC is the 2,750-seat John A. Williams Theater—a room that deftly blends striking architectural and interior design elements, ultra-modern theater systems, and inspired acoustic and theatrical ingenuity. This opulent space is designed as a…
The dramatic new Sykes Chapel and Center for Faith and Values combines wood, glass and stone to create a warm but strikingly modern interior, matched by a warmly reverberant acoustic. The chapel is a non-denominational worship space as well as…
Chapin Hall’s concert hall is the largest gathering space at Williams College, used for graduation and baccalaureate services and as the principal performance space for the department of music and the Berkshire Symphony. This gorgeous building by Cram, Goodhue and…
The home for the Cavalier Marching Band is the two-story Hunter Smith Band Building which was named after Carl and Hunter Smith who initially founded the band in 2003 before funding the building in 2009. The building contains a 4,000…
Room acoustics, mechanical noise, and audio-video systems consulting services for this new 64,000 gsf facility. The building features a 270-seat lecture hall, library, computer center, meeting rooms, and presentation spaces. At the heart of the museum is an immersive multimedia…
Kirkegaard provided acoustic consulting for the MRIs and adjacent areas in the new Virtua Health Ambulatory Care Center. The MRI were adjacent to office space that was leased and maximum allowable noise levels were required. The building is located to…
Trinity-by-the-Cove is a lovely jewel of a church whose services include an excellent small choir and equally excellent organ. For the audio system renovation the goals were to increase speech intelligibility and intimacy and provide a high-quality recording system for…
As Phase 1A of a larger renovation that included the entire school, the new construction music wing includes dedicated Choir Rehearsal, Orchestra Rehearsal and Band Rehearsal spaces with gracious ceiling height to provide sufficient acoustic volume for the various ensembles.…
For two decades, Kirkegaard worked closely with Bora and the faculty and leadership of Michigan State’s College of Music to work out a comprehensive roadmap for improving their facilities. Their 1940s music building and adjacent 1970s practice room tower both…
The Town of Cary, in cooperation with the North Carolina Symphony and the Regency Park office park, had produced a very successful summer music series for many years, attracting an audience that had grown from several hundred initially to many…
The 250-seat Watts Theatre is a thrust theater with a stagehouse and a single balcony, protected from the hubbub of this busy building by a structural concrete shell. Actors need no amplification in this intimate space, but a sophisticated audio…
The Fritzsche Center is an addition with auditorium, toilets and lobby. A future phase may add rehearsal and practice spaces. The auditorium is designed for regular worship, assembly, and all kinds of performances: concert band, chorus, jazz band, solos, dance,…
The Saieh Hall for Economics is the new home for the University of Chicago's Department of Economics, with 150,000 gross square feet of lecture and research facilities across four buildings. The main building is an adaptive reuse of the historic…
The room’s retractable curtains and banners located behind the handsome acoustically transparent metal mesh walls allows the acoustic character of the room to be customized for each type of event. For excellent sound and vibration isolation, the main performance venues…
Programming was key to the success of this project. Kirkegaard established a rationale for improving the existing building by shifting the loudest and most compromised activities into an uncompromised new addition. The rooms that this freed up in the existing…
Recommendations for sound isolation and room acoustics of an existing hospital wing for the Labor/Delivery pods and Nurses' station.
The Spencer Theatre is a 500 seat drama theatre in the 1977 Olson PAC, home to the UMKC theatre department and the Kansas City Rep theatre company. This proscenium theatre has a demountable semi-thrust forestage that the users reconfigure for…
The new Betty and Kenneth Hawkins Centennial Chapel is ONU’s central gathering space for its student body, faculty and staff. In addition to supporting regular campus events and worship services, it also hosts numerous performances, including high-energy praise bands, orchestra,…
The new McCormick Place Marriott Marquis Hotel includes a 40 level building, with a 1200 room full-service hotel operated by Marriott International. The building is directly across the street from the new McCormick Place Event Center. The podium of the…
The new Valley City State University (VCSU) Center for the Arts is the creative hub of the campus, a space for fostering creative expression and experiential hands-on learning – in music and the visual arts – for the students of…
High-performance glass walls keep the main broadcast studio quiet while preserving a view across Van Ness Avenue. A production studio and two interview rooms are well isolated from each other and treated to sound as similar as possible, so recordings…
The Adams Center for the Musical Arts provides the teaching, practice, and rehearsal facilities that the Yale School of Music needed to carry their program into the future. The new building at the heart of the Adams Center links two…
Director of Marketing Ashley's admiration for the arts combined with her background in marketing for the AEC industry brought her to Kirkegaard. As a St. Louis native, she is deeply passionate about enhancing the local community through architecture and [...]
The Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park is a 12,000-seat outdoor facility for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Located in Alpharetta, about twenty miles from Atlanta, the ASO’s summertime home is nestled among fourty-five acres of trees and neatly landscaped grounds.…
The renovated portion of the music building captures space in the basement and backstage of Marshall Auditorium’s stagehouse, a 1992 addition to the 1907 auditorium in Roberts Hall that continues to be Haverford’s largest space for concerts. The renovation offers…
When Curtis started exploring possibilities for expanding their facilities to include additional music education spaces and add student residences, they involved Kirkegaard in the assessment of planned uses, feasibility, and cost. The solution was to replace the Locust Club building…
Director of Design Jeff Human came to Kirkegaard following a 13-year career as professional sound engineer and designer. His designs and mixes have been heard across the world on international Broadway musical tours, at world-renowned performing arts festivals, and [...]
Project Overview Room Acoustics Design Sound Isolation Mechanical Noise Control Audio Visual Systems Design Hacker Portland, OR Architect The Shalleck Collaborative Berkeley, Ca Theater Consultant 140-seat rehearsal / performance room 9,500 GSF Construction Cost 6.9 Million [...]
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The Jazz Market repurposed a shuttered market, creating a flexible 370-seat auditorium with a gracious lobby and an education/warm-up room within the shell of the old building. The client set clear priorities, demanding excellent natural acoustics in the auditorium while…
Room acoustics, mechanical noise, and audio/video systems consulting services for the home of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, integrated into a downtown historic building. This 335-seat recital / concert hall integrates a large window into the upstage wall, enhancing the…
Consultant Justin delivers refined solutions by leveraging his strong foothold of experience consulting for performing & recording arts spaces and applying lessons learned to other building types. Justin values a scientific approach when it comes to balancing acoustics with [...]
The Humanities Building at SUNY Purchase complements the school’s performing arts center by offering students who are not arts majors an opportunity to gain performance and production experience. Kliment Halsband Architects undertook a gut renovation of Venturi & Rauch’s 1973…
Since 1940 the Boston Symphony Orchestra has offered the Tanglewood Music Center as a summer music academy where talented students can work with professional musicians. As the summer home of the BSO, Tanglewood also draws thousands of music lovers to [...]
Senior Consultant Kaitlyn Hunt’s passions for physics, math, music, and theater led to her interest in acoustics and the development of her growing career in the field. Prior to joining Kirkegaard, Kaitlyn gained experience from working [...]
Bridget approaches AV systems with a multidisciplinary understanding of technology, design, and performance, focusing on the integration of AV systems into architecture and design. Her studies in AV technology and interior architecture inform her approach to every project, providing her [...]
Elisabeth Hall Antwerp brings a new world-class concert hall and conference space to life within the shell of an existing historically significant building. This new concert venue seats 1,900 in a flexible music, theatre and lecture space serving the KMDA…
The venerable Oregon Bach Festival has long presented concerts of Bach, his contemporaries, and modern music that draws inspiration from early and baroque music. For years, OBF rehearsed and performed at various venues around Eugene, relying heavily on the University…
Celebrating its 150th anniversary, NEC opened the doors to its new Student Life and Performance Center. Situated directly across the street from historic Jordan Hall, this new facility for NEC includes a 250-seat opera studio/ black-box theater, orchestra rehearsal/performance room,…
The Davenport Central High School addition includes a new 892-seat multipurpose auditorium and an 8-lane, 300 seat pool. The auditorium is designed to be used for drama performances, a wide range of music and choir ensembles, musicals, lectures and presentations.…
