The large video production Studio A is a traditional video studio with flexible setups, a dedicated control room, and a portable 100" 4K LCD touch display. Three of the four small video production studios serve the university's extremely popular high-tech…
The MMR is a unique space, used for CIRMMT’s ground-breaking research in ensemble communication as well as rehearsals, performances and recordings. For this challenging range of uses, we created a neutral, highly flexible acoustic environment. The walls of the room…
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…
To better serve their growing student body, the COCA underwent a major renovation and expansion. The Ferring East Wing expansion features a state of the art Berges Theatre with full fly loft and orchestra pit while also housing three new…
TCT's desire for the Emery Theatre is to have a large performance space where they will have unlimited access and capabilities for their weekday performances to school-age children. The space is being designed to be flexible enough to accommodate smaller…
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…
This fast-paced project includes two 2,400 sf live rooms that require clear sightlines to the large central newsroom. Kirkegaard assisted in selecting a glazing system that would preserve sound isolation in the live rooms while maintaining the transparency desired by…
Room acoustics, noise control and AV systems design for this 720-seat auditorium. The multipurpose room serves both musical performance and theater without the use of a flytower. The unique approach of using a non-proscenium room to serve these user groups…
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 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…
Starting in 2012, Kirkegaard helped to undertake a thorough renovation, combining it with the building next door to create a versatile home for the Augusta Symphony. The venue now hosts a wide variety of performance, ranging from unamplified symphonic music,…
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 Atrium Health Amphitheater is a new 10,000-person outdoor performance venue located in Macon, Georgia. The Amphitheater includes 4,000 fixed seats that are protected by a sound-absorptive canopy, and a lawn zone that is capable of seating up to 6,000…
The Dance Building has four studios of various shapes, ranging in size from 2,000 sf to 4,000 sf. The largest is the Dance Performance Studio Theatre, with 126 fixed theater seats, steeply raked for excellent sightlines, control room, performance lighting,…
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Powell Hall Renovation and Expansion The SLSO and Kirkegaard Kirkegaard is proud to be on the design team for the expansion and renovation of one of the most historic [...]
The TD Stage is an outdoor pavilion at the Peace Center in Greenville, South Carolina, with a seating capacity that can vary up to 1,400+. Patrons can sit along the tiered seat-walls or bring blankets and lawn chairs to the…
The thorough renovation of the Lab Theatre dramatically upgraded the technical capabilities of the theater, adding a walkable grid and improved seating, lighting and rigging. Kirkegaard designed comprehensive new systems for audio, projection, IT and security. These systems support performances…
Recently Opened to the Public! Macon Bibb Gets A New Amphitheater The new Atrium Health Amphitheater is a 10,000-person outdoor performance space with 4,000 fixed seats and a lawn zone that seats up [...]
Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts at Colby Newly Opened to the Public! The Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts is the largest building at Colby College dedicated to [...]
McGill University – Schulich School of Music – Music Multimedia Room Renovation Music Multimedia Room Renovation The Music Multimedia Room (MMR) is a unique space, used for Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music [...]
Radford University, a state school in western Virginia, wanted a new building to encourage interdisciplinary learning – especially interaction between the arts and the healing arts. The new building replaces several older buildings, drawing Music, Theater, Dance, Art, and Design…
The building was designed as part of the Mizzou New Music Initiative which began in 2009 with the intention to position the school as a leading center for the composition and performance of new music. It became clear to the…
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…
Fixing the Collaboration Wars, Google, Microsoft, Zoom. AVWeek 624: Host Brian Heidergerken Fixin' it yourself. What companies like Microsoft are doing to let AV professionals do to fix, repair, and update their own gear. [...]
Kirkegaard is pleased to welcome Clay Benning as a Principal on the Integrated Systems Design team (KIS). Clay joins Kirkegaard from the Alliance Theatre where he has been the Resident Sound Designer for 23 years. He has designed over 150 [...]
EMPAC is a signature work of architecture that brings together four main venues as well as artist-in-residence studios, audiovisual production and post-production suites, student facilities and lab spaces for cross-disciplinary collaboration under one roof. Spaces can be used independently and…
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 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…
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 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 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 Bowes Center sits on Van Ness Avenue with a view to City Hall’s dome from the 11th floor Barbro Osher Recital Hall. With its inherent flexibility, this beautiful room can be an event space or accommodate audiences of up…
The building offers nine dance studios, ranging in size from 1800 sf to 3600 sf including flexible 140 seat performance space along with new administration area. Ballet's size increased by more than 60% compared to their previous building. As the…
For years Cincinnati Shakespeare presented wonderful productions and built a loyal audience in a tiny storefront theater. In 2017 they finally moved into a new theater that matches the quality of their work and presents it without compromise. Designed by…
The light-filled Olentine Forum connects the main venues, and is a hub for student interaction, receptions, and informal performances. The Performance Hall has a beautiful and versatile acoustic character, with motorized curtains behind wood grillage allowing the hall to be…
The renovation retained the beautiful green lawn with space for 8,000, surrounded by a berm crowned with trees, but added tunnels for pedestrian access to the lawn and vehicular access to the stage. The bare performance platform became a new…
The University of North Texas - College of Music (COM) is one of the largest and most prestigious music education programs in the United States. The Music Building located at the heart of the campus is the creative hub for…
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 Mount Baker Theatre is a city owned facility on the National Historic Registry of Historic places and is managed by a not for profit organization called Mount Baker Theatre (MBT). The Theatre was built in 1927 as a luxurious…
The Betty Anne Rouse Bell Recital Hall is a 366-seat performance space for Berry College and its School of Music. This renovation of the 1928 Ford Auditorium transformed a worn and acoustically problematic room both visually and functionally and made…
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…
This facility provides accommodations for concerts/productions from community groups, broadway shows, and other professional performance entities, such as the New York Philharmonic that performed for the gala opening weekend, in addition to showcasing performances from the university’s music ensembles and…
The Linde Center for Music and Learning was conceived as a complement to the huge Koussevitzky Music Shed and intimate Seiji Ozawa Concert Hall, which seats 1,100 patrons within the hall, plus 1,000 on the lawn beyond the operable rear…
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…
This comprehensive project encompasses both a major addition and targeted improvements to the existing structure, carefully balancing the preservation of the venue's beloved acoustic character with modern performance and patron needs. A complete reimagining of the backstage area modernizes the…
