Within this 1930 Tudor Revival, a comprehensive renovation provided office & instructional spaces for a variety of programs. Kirkegaard's primary focus was the conversion of a gymnasium into a 250-seat Recital Hall for the Department of Music. The insertion of…
The new Ute and William J. Bowes, Jr. Center for Performing Arts does three critical things for the Conservatory: it provides housing for SFCM students; adds rehearsal and performance spaces; and supports SFCM initiatives in Technology and Applied Composition (TAC)…
The 1959 modernist building has remained mostly untouched since constructed and has long suffered from poor sound isolation and unremarkable, undersized performance spaces. The design team did a comprehensive renovation that included replacing the building mechanical systems and much of…
The venerable Oregon Bach Festival has long presented concerts of Bach, his contemporaries, and modern music that draws inspiration from early and baroque music. OBF rehearsed and performed at various venues around Eugene, relying heavily on the University of Oregon's…
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…
Rubendall Recital Hall is a 250-seat room shoehorned into a Dickinson College century-old structure. First renovated from a gymnasium building in 1981, the Weiss Center for the Arts' latest transformation features a highly flexible interior, lightweight recital screen, fabric ceiling,…
This renovation focused on transforming a 35,000 gsf Designated City Landmark into functional rehearsal, performance, support, and office spaces for the San Francisco Opera. Kirkegaard's design services encompass room acoustics, sound isolation design, and mechanical noise and vibration control consulting…
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 building has a narrow rehearsal room shoehorned in behind the stage at the gallery/lobby…
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…
Acoustics design and mechanical noise and vibration control for renovation of the 900-seat concert/recital hall, The Martin Theatre, to 850 seats including addition of a fixed performance shell, refurbishing of seating, and reshaping of walls and ceiling.
Planning and design services for the adaptive reuse of a ruined 1732 church into a rehearsal, recording, education, and performance space for the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO). With only the initial exterior walls, crypt and spire remaining, innovative solutions were…
This new performing arts facility functions as a "village" of ten interconnecting buildings that bring together the University’s Music, Theatre, and Dance departments. Major spaces include a 1,200-seat concert hall, 300-seat recital hall, 650-seat proscenium theatre and a 200-seat dance…
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…
Renovation of the historic Sydney Conservatorium of Music restored an 800-seat concert hall and added two new 250-seat recital halls; a 300-seat opera theatre (shown with orchestra pit and extended seating covered); and new teaching, practice, and rehearsal spaces. Originally…
The Conservatory's home in the heart of San Francisco's arts district was created from the fabric of the old Athletic Club - a beloved downtown building. Altogether nearly 73,000 net square feet of space was created to accommodate the Conservatory's…
In 1987 Rice University hired Ricardo Bofill to create a new music building that would draw together their scattered music program under one roof. The resulting grandly-scaled neoclassical building includes a 1000-seat concert hall, a 250-seat recital hall, a black…
The Mary Baker Russell Music Center provides a new home for the strong choral and instrumental music programs at Pacific Lutheran University, with Lagerquist Concert Hall at its heart. The 535-seat hall has a stage sized for full orchestra or…
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, 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 noise control design for an elegant 269-seat recital concert hall, the primary performing space for Chinese University of Hong Kong's music department.
