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…
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…
This project is based on an innovative and successful urban high school prototype also designed by Kirkegaard for the Chicago Public School system. Kirkegaard provided Room Acoustics, Mechanical Noise Control and Audiovisual design of the gymnasium/auditorium, multi-purpose/dance room, pool, instrumental/choral…
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 first phase of this complex is home to UMBC's 280-seat Proscenium Theatre, 130-seat Black Box Theatre, English departments, as well as the Dresher Center for the Humanities. The second phase of the building houses the university's departments of dance,…
Built in 1910, the Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson designed 1,200-seat concert hall is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Kirkegaard provided complete design services in acoustic and AV design for the renovation of this magnificent space. The team's…
When Curtis started exploring possibilities for expanding their facilities to include additional music education spaces and add student residences, they involved Kirkegaard in the assessment of planned uses, feasibility, and cost. The resulting new building, Lenfest Hall, provides an orchestra…
Northwestern's new Music 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, enabling the Bienen School of Music to consolidate all its programs in one location.…
The historic Studio Towers above Carnegie Hall has undergone a full renovation to support the educational missions of the Weill Music Institute and The Academy, which is a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute's…
Audio and Video systems consulting services for the new construction of 947,500 sq ft. 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.…
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…
Alumnae Hall is the largest assembly space at Wellesley College. The original 1923 beaux arts building by Cram and Ferguson consisted of a 1,300-seat auditorium with a ballroom below, equal in size to the auditorium. Kirkegaard installed a new audio…
The renovation of Penn's 25,000 sq ft. music building incorporated 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 four…
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 gamut 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 School of Arts is a six-story building in Midtown that stretches along Seldon Street, near Detroit’s Orchestra Hall. Its long footprint allows ample natural light into the classrooms that line the faces of the building. Larger, multi-story rooms are…
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…
Room acoustics and noise control consulting services for a new LEED-Gold Certified academic building for Judson University, located 45 miles northwest of Chicago in Elgin, IL. The 88,000 square foot Harm A. Weber Academic Center, completed in 2007, includes library,…
