Situated inside a 100-year old carriage house, Brown's Grant / Fulton Hall has been transformed into a new state-of-the-art recital/classroom space serving conventional and electronic ensembles. As the music department's primary performance venue, the room's technical infrastructure accommodates multi-channel playback/surround…
Bowdoin’s new music facility is a unique adaptive reuse project, converting the 100-year-old McKim Meade and White natatorium into a 285-seat concert/recital hall. The narrow building has a lobby at one end, a rehearsal room at the other, and the…
Honored by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) for project uniqueness, innovation in construction techniques and owner satisfaction, the renovation of Fort Myer Conmy Hall has met with considerable success. Originally built in 1934 as an indoor equestrian facility,…
As the largest community theatre in Michigan, Grand Rapids Civic Theatre (GRCT) reaches over 90,000 patrons annually. Its School of Theatre Arts offers a full range of acting, dance, and technical theatre classes, as well as a summer camp and…
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…
Royal Festival Hall was based on an unprecedented design approach at a time when Londoners were still dealing with post World War II rationing. It was intended to be a favorite gathering place for the people of London and beyond,…
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 Rhinehart Music Center serves a wide range of university groups, musical ensembles, and community performance events, including a community band and youth orchestra. It offers large rehearsal rooms for band and chorus, recording room, practice rooms, classrooms, teaching studios…
The Overture Center for the Arts transformed a city block of downtown Madison, renovating a historic Rapp & Rapp theater into a 1,200-seat multi-purpose theater, adding a new 2,250-seat theater for symphony, opera, and musical theater, creating a new 330-seat…
The Roselle Center for the Arts is a welcoming new facility, designed to blend in with the federal-style brick building that are typical of the University of Delaware’s campus. It is the school’s primary performance venue for the theater and…
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…
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 [...]
The Music Center at Strathmore, in the suburbs of Washington DC, boasts a beautiful building in a peaceful wooded setting accessible by Metro. The 2,000-seat concert hall is the second home for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra while also offering a…
This 2,000-seat hall is the home for the Omaha Symphony. The space serves the orchestra’s classical series and pops performances, as well as chamber music and popular events. The narrow shoebox shape of the Peter Kiewit Concert Hall creates an…
Room acoustics, mechanical noise and vibration control, and audio/visual consulting services to renovate Stanford's home of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) and the Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities. The building holds a…
Room acoustics, noise and vibration control, and audio/video systems design for this dynamic new facility which presents opera, popular music, Broadway musicals and is home to the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Phase 1 included a new 440-seat theatre, studio theatre, music…
The Overture Center for the Arts created a beautiful new home for the major arts organizations of Madison, including Madison Opera. The centerpiece of the project is the 2,250-seat Overture Hall, a stunning new room for opera, dance, and musical…
Pressure Point's new recording studios were built around a new SSL console and integrated into a narrow site. Sound isolation, mechanical noise control, and room acoustics for this design work with the creativity of space utilization sought throughout every available…
The Mountain Laurel Center's new pavilion forms the core of a growing multi-use arts complex, and is a summer performance venue for the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia Symphony Orchestras. As the seed project for this mountainside home for the arts, the…
Built in 1732 and repeatedly underpinned and shored up over the course of two centuries, St. Luke’s Church on London’s Old Street finally succumbed to bad soil conditions in 1959, when the roof and interior structure were removed to prevent…
The legendary quality of Carnegie Hall’s acoustics were the result of numerous progressive architectural modifications to the room, including the removal of part of the stage ceiling in a pre-1900 effort to stage opera in the space. Generations of performances…
A generous donation was the impetus for the Howard Performing Arts Center at Andrews University. When dreams inevitably outstripped the budget, Kirkegaard worked with the client to develop strategies for maximizing what their dollars could buy. The client chose to…
The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center at Emory University is where teaching, learning, and performance merge on campus, providing a vital arts presence and space for engagement with the broader community. The facility includes an 820-seat concert hall with recording…
Beginning in 2007 Kirkegaard began the process of working with Carnegie Hall to determine the best loudspeaker design for the iconic Stern Auditorium, known to most people simply as Carnegie Hall. The existing loudspeaker system had been identified in [...]
Kirkegaard provided comprehensive acoustics and audio/video design consulting services for The Red Rocks Visitor Center in Morrison, Colorado. Integrated into the natural rock formations at the top of this world-renowned Amphitheater, interactive displays feature the geologic and music history of…
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.
Room acoustics and sound isolation with mechanical noise and vibration control for the Paul Porter Center for Performing Arts. The new building includes the 700-seat Scott Concert Hall which can be used equally well for full orchestra concerts and intimate…
Currently the home of the London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Barbican Concert Hall was originally planned as a conference facility for 2000 people, with a design that emphasized audience proximity to the stage. Its reconception as…
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…
This new performing arts facility complex contains the 1,747-seat Meymandi Concert Hall, home to the North Carolina Symphony and the 604-seat A. J. Fletcher Opera Theater, a proscenium lyric theatre that also serves as an intimate chamber music and recital…
Recommendations for improvement of symphonic acoustics in the 2,325-seat Southam Hall, including the installation of a reverberation enhancement system.
Meyerhoff opened in 1982 and was designed as a 2,400-seat concert hall for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, with pops and other musical performance activities rounding-out their performance calendar. Kirkegaard was retained for an acoustics improvement renovation that took place in…
Built in the heart of Midtown Atlanta, Symphony Center will be a cornerstone of the Woodruff Arts Center's Village of the Arts. Involved with the initial site analysis and evaluation, Kirkegaard has provided programming, room acoustics and mechanical noise control…
Room acoustics, and noise control services for a new 175-seat planetarium and classroom complex at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. The Rauch Planetarium provides a high-tech, multi-media learning venue for the presentation of educational programs supporting astronomy and space science…
Situated on the north end of the College Park Campus of the University of Maryland, the 318,000-square-foot Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center functions as a “village” of ten interconnecting buildings that spread across 17 acres, bringing together the University’s School…
Review of acoustical design features and recommendations for this 5,000-seat, tensioned membrane outdoor performance venue.
The Benedict Music Tent is a performance facility at the Aspen Music Festival in Aspen, Colorado. This 2050-seat space was designed primarily for music performance and rehearsal for groups including large symphony orchestra (110+ musicians), orchestra with chorus, chamber orchestra…
The Renaissance Center in Dickson, Tennesee contains a 350-seat multiple use theatre, planetarium, video and audio recording studio, music and dance rehearsal rooms, and classroom space. Kirkegaard's scope of work included room acoustics, sound isolation, and building systems noise control.
The Museum of Science and Industry Rotunda is a flexible space with eight (8) potential stage locations and a seven - ten (7-10) second reverberation time depending on the nature of the exhibit in the North Gallery. The sound system…
Over the years as new exhibits are installed, Kirkegaard has worked on various projects at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. Repeat services for this client have included the museum's original "Sue" Exhibit, featuring the world's largest, most complete, and…
From 1992 to 1999, Kirkegaard contributed to a comprehensive reworking of the facilities for the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. The first step was the conversion of a 100-year-old gymnasium into the Dieterle Vocal Arts Center, with a choral…
Room acoustics, mechanical noise, and audio/video systems consulting services for the new campus music facility, including classroom space, a recital hall, and practice rooms. The recital hall was designed to take advantage of the building's stunning view of Coy Pond…
Room acoustics and mechanical noise consulting services for the renovation of a 1930's era 500-seat lecture hall to serve as a dedicated concert hall facility with upgraded lobby, backstage rehearsal rooms, and faculty offices. The hall's raked floor and new…
Acoustics design for full range of improvements for the 2,900-seat historic home of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Opera Company of Philadelphia. The project provided backstage improvements, improved seating, a new stage floor, a new orchestra pit, and new audio…
The Alys Robinson Stephens Center is a tribute to creativity, but not just in the way you might expect. When UAB set out to build a performing arts center to serve its arts program and present visiting artists, the initial…
Renovation of 2,750-seat Paramount Theatre which has been rededicated the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, for the Oregon Symphony. New construction includes the 880-seat multi-use Newmark Theatre; 330-seat Dolores Winningstad Theatre, a courtyard theatre for drama, opera, recitals and receptions.
As construction was starting on their twin skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, the Petronas oil company decided that the 400-seat meeting room nestled between the towers should be changed to a concert hall, the first such room in Malaysia. Because of…
Room acoustics, and noise and vibration control for a $15 million addition to the historic Adler Planetarium on Chicago's lake front. This building is the first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, and the world's only museum with two full-size planetarium…
Acoustics, noise control, and audio/video systems design for the new 1,800-seat Robert E. Jacoby Concert Hall with organ, and renovation of the 600-seat Herman & Mary Virginia Terry Theater and 3,000-seat proscenium Jim and Jan Moran Theater.
Acoustic and Audio/Video systems design including reverberation enhancement system for this 1,100-seat room which serves small scale opera, dance, chamber ensembles, recitals, and touring epic drama.
