New York City Center has been central to the vitality of the performing arts of New York since its first renovation in 1943 when Mayor LaGuardia dedicated it as Manhattan's first performing arts center. Since then it has been providing…
The renovated 550-seat Fairchild Theatre has an enhanced orchestra pit to support opera and musical theatre. With a stage level lift, a generous platform supports a wide range of ensembles. A series of orchestra shell towers infills the expanded proscenium…
The world's first Forest Theatre-Nine Trees Future Art Center officially opened in September 2019. The art center is located in Fengxian District, Shanghai. It is the landmark project of Art Business Card of South Shanghai and also it's the first…
The Humanities Building at SUNY Purchase complements the school’s performing arts center by offering students who are not necessarily arts majors an opportunity to gain experience in the arts. Kliment Halsband Architects designed a gut renovation of Venturi & Rauch’s…
Comprehensive renovation of this historic 900-seat theatre and adjacent 19th-century buildings to serve as additional public, administrative, and backstage space. As the largest community theatre in Michigan, GRCT reaches over 90,000 patrons annually. Its School of Theatre Arts offers a…
The Theatre and lobby went through an extensive seven-month renovation that included 5,550 sf of new lobby space at both main and upper level that expanded seating area, restroom capacity and concessions. As part of the project the 585 seats…
The acoustic design challenges were a central concern when the project was designed. The wide range of uses required the design of acoustic curtains and banners to reduce reverberation and reflections and offer different acoustic Environments. At the same time,…
Kirkegaard performed initial programming and room acoustic design for an addition to, and extensive renovation of this, one of many, major building of the Boston Conservatory campus. Program included a 325-seat multi-function theatre for dance, opera, musical theater, and theater,…
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…
In the Fall of 2008, an international design competition was held to redevelop the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland at its current Earlsfort Terrace location. The project objective was to provide three performance auditoria with the highest international standards [...]
Antwerp's Queen Elisabeth Hall brings a new world-class concert hall and conference space to life within the shell of the existing facility. This new concert venue seats 1,900 in a flexible music, conference, and theatre space serving the KMDA (the…
The Overture Project is remarkable in many ways. The construction cost of $205 million was a gift from a single donor, local businessman Jerry Frautschi. His extraordinary generosity provided Madison, Wisconsin, with a beautiful new performing arts center designed by [...]
Acoustic and Audio/Video systems design including reverberation enhancement system for this 1100-seat room which serves small scale opera, dance, chamber ensembles, recitals and touring epic drama.
Acoustic design consulting services for this Elizabethan outdoor courtyard located in the scenic town of Ashland, Oregon. The stage of the venue is patterned after London's historic Fortune Theater (completed in 1599) and is the second playhouse to stand on…
Damaged by an electrical fire in 2003, the newly restored Gozo’s Teatru Astra sprang into life just in time for the October 2005 Festival Mediterranea. Built in the 1960s, the theatre now boasts new backstage facilities, a modified stage and [...]
The acoustic renovation of the Tennessee Theatre was integrated into the historic fabric of the building so carefully that most observers would be unaware that any of the work was “acoustical.” The wide oval room was challenging because it produced [...]
Meymandi Concert Hall is a new facility located beside the existing 2,000+ seat multi-purpose Memorial Auditorium in Raleigh, North Carolina. The primary purpose of the hall is to serve the North Carolina Symphony as a space for rehearsal as well [...]
The Peace Center for the Performing Arts consists of two newly constructed, free-standing multi-purpose theaters built on the site of an old textile mill in downtown Greenville, SC. Several mill buildings were renovated as support, administrative, and retail spaces, while [...]
The Centre East Theatre is an 848-seat multi-purpose proscenium theater that is part of the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts. The space is designed to support a wide range of productions including local symphony orchestras, drama productions, musicals, [...]
Acoustics design and mechanical systems noise control for this 2,100-seat concert hall/music theatre and 450-seat playhouse within a $300 million mixed-use complex including retail and office spaces. The Belk Theater serves as the primary venue for the Charlotte Symphony, the…
Acoustics and audio/video design for new arts center including 230-seat recital hall, 300-seat drama theatre, and blackbox theatre/video studio; audio/video design for support facilities including a recording studio and video edit suite.
This effort supported five separate projects: new music building with 300-seat recital hall, 250-seat studio theater, 100-seat recital hall, classrooms, offices, and teaching studios; extensive renovation of 750-seat lyric theatre; renovation of 400-seat drama theatre; conversion of a historic gymnasium…
The Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center is a new structure built adjacent to the 1960s music building at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. The PAC complements the existing facilities by focusing on performance halls. It includes the 1300-seat Jemison [...]
Room acoustics, mechanical noise, sound isolation, and infra-structure audio/video systems design for this new state-of-the-art facility. Anchored into a sloping hilltop overlooking the Hudson River, this dynamic venue features a 1,200-seat performance hall; a 400-seat theatre; two studios providing interactive…
The University of Delaware's Center for the Arts is a superb new facility serving the needs of the Theater and Music Departments. The building includes a 464-seat proscenium theater with pit and full flytower; a 250-seat recital hall; a large…
Room acoustics mechanical noise control and audio/video system design for a new 500-seat proscenium theater, 125-seat black box, radio studios, television studios, graphic arts lab, lecture hall, faculty office, practice rooms and art exhibit space.
