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 [...]
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 [...]
Curtis is one of the world’s leading music conservatories and is unique in that it has provided merit-based, tuition-free scholarships to all its exceptionally gifted students since 1928. When Curtis started exploring possibilities for expanding their facilities to include additional [...]
The new building for The Theatre School at DePaul University’s Lincoln Park campus provides much-needed performance, rehearsal, instruction and office facilities for this top-ranked conservatory program. The complex includes extensive scenery and costume shops, multimedia computer lab, a lighting laboratory, [...]
The historic Studio Towers, added to Carnegie Hall during 1894-1897, has undergone a full renovation to support the educational missions of the Weill Music Institute and provide greatly-improved spaces for Carnegie Hall’s backstage, archives, and offices. The newly created Resnick [...]
Audio and Video systems consulting services for the new construction of Northwestern Memorial Prentice Women’s Hospital. Design services included systems for the first and third floors of the building in auditoriums, classrooms, and an administrative conference center. This LEED silver-rated [...]
Located on the historic campus of S.C. Johnson & Sons, in Racine, WI, Fortaleza Hall commemorates the 1998 expedition to Fortaleza, Brazil, taken by Sam Johnson and his family in a replica Sikorsky S-38 amphibious airplane. The plane was identical [...]
The renovation of the University of Pennsylvania's music building incorporated the restoration of a beautiful 1890 Italianate brick building along with a graceful new addition, modern in nature but proportioned and detailed to complement the historic surroundings. The addition houses [...]
Home to a college, museum, library and archive, Chicago's new Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies opened in November, 2007 and sponsors programs that run the gamet of Jewish culture. The Institute's new facility, located on Michigan Avenue [immediately adjacent to [...]
Mesirow Financial’s new 45-story office building contains the firm’s corporate headquarters, filling floors 4 through 17. The elegant architecture is complemented by near-invisible technology infrastructure, linked through an extensive IT network. Each of the building’s conference rooms includes extensive audio, [...]
The Detroit School of the Arts represents the culmination of a decade-long dream. When the first High School for the Fine and Performing Arts opened in 1992 with a class of ninety ninth graders, the school’s vision was to be [...]
Room acoustics and noise control consulting services for a new LEED-certified academic building for Judson University, located 45 miles northwest of Chicago in Elgin, Illinois. The 88,000 square foot Harm A. Weber Academic Center, completed in 2007, includes library, classrooms, [...]
Since the early ’90s, Indiana University (IU) has repeatedly called upon Kirkegaard to oversee the acoustics design of expanded facilities for the Jacobs School of Music, which prides itself as one of largest and most prestigious music schools in the [...]
