Valley Performing Arts Upcoming!
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6/29/2010 (Updated - 7/7/2010)
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 The $125M project is transforming into what will be known as VPAC - the Valley Performing Arts Center. The VPAC will be the first large-scale venue to provide a unique cultural experience for residents of the San Fernando Valley and surrounding areas. It will actually be the first - and only - major performing arts venue north of downtown Los Angeles! MCH is providing full-scope acoustical and audiovisual consulting on the entire project. |
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“The Valley Performing Arts Center at CSUN will serve as a world-class venue for student and professional theatrical and musical productions. This new venue will allow Valley residents to enjoy a variety of theater performances right in the heart of the San Fernando Valley, enhancing the cultural and intellectual spirit of the community,” said Congressman and CSUN alu mus, Brad Sherman.
The VPAC will be the new home for ArtsNorthridge and KCSN-FM radio, boasting an acoustically tunable main performance hall including 1,700 seats, making it an ideal place to attend symphonies, dance, opera and other theater performances. There will also be a 178-seat black box theater for the smaller types of productions, indoor and outdoor public and entertainment areas as well as a lecture hall.
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MIT Media Lab
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6/17/2010 (Updated - 7/7/2010)
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The new MIT Media Lab is world renowned for invention and innovation, requiring a radical architectural approach to encourage cross-disciplinary research and collaboration.
 Seven double-height research labs with open views are vertically staggered around a central atrium, promoting strong visual connections, stimulating circulation, and encouraging interaction among researchers.
Common research areas are wrapped by mezzanine offices and interspersed with conference rooms and exhibition areas. A central atrium vertically connects all six floors.
The auditorium, meeting rooms, and café are on the top floor, allowing stunning views of the Boston skyline and the Charles River.
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Architect: Maki and Associates, Tokyo, Japan
Architect of Record: Leers Weinzapfel Associates Architects, Inc., Boston, MA, USA
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Construction Cost: $90 million
Size: 163,000 SF on six occupied floors
Completed: March 2010
Acoustical consulting provided as a Cavanaugh Tocci Assoc. Inc., Sudbury, MA, project; K. Anthony Hoover, FASA, Principal Consultant.
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Historic Ford Theatres Study Underway
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6/22/2010 (Updated - 6/29/2010)
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 MCH is embarking on a
detailed look at upgrades
for Hollywood's historic (1931) John Anson Ford Theatres. As for the historic amphitheater itself, designed to evoke the gates of
ancient Jerusalem, the study will address prospective upgrades, expansions and preservation of its historic features. Within the 45-acre site, the amphitheater seats 1,250 and
the 87-seat [Inside] Ford theatre is housed below rear seating. On the list to consider are a rehearsal hall, a fully-functioning covered performance space, a restaurant and the requisite support and administrative spaces.
MCH was retained on several occasions over the past 15 years to study the acoustics of the space including reducing freeway noise impacts (the busy Hollywood [101] Freeway lies 800ft away) and providing recommendations to permit chamber orchestras to perform satisfactorily. By the late 1990s both goals had been nicely accomplished but programming at the Ford and new sound systems at the Bowl (only 1500ft distant) have conspired to require new examinations in the course of the Master Plan Study.
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ASU's Carey School
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2/14/2010 (Updated - 6/29/2010)
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 ASU's Carey School of Business adds to MCH's portfolio of 6 other prestigious business schools, including the Weatherhead School of Management (Case Western Reserve), Anderson Graduate School of Management (UCLA), Hilton School of Business (Loyola Marymount), Marshall School of Business (USC), Eller College of Management (Univ. of AZ) and the Morrison School of Management & Agribusiness (ASU Polytechnic Campus). The project is to start construction early 2011 and is anticipated to achieve LEED Gold certification. |
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 The new 4-story, 128,000GSF building will be home for the graduate, MBA and Executive Education programs and will feature tiered case study classrooms, a 300-seat raked auditorium, a career management center plus the requisite administrative and faculty support spaces.
Previously, MCH consulted on ASU's Morrison School of Management at their Polytechnic Campus in Mesa and their Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix.
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Carpenter Family Theater Opens
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6/9/2010 (Updated - 6/28/2010)
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Richard Carpenter (of '70s pop duo, "The Carpenters") donated $1M toward the $4M recently-completed theater renovation at Westlake High School (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) for which MCH provided AV systems design. The state-of-the-art, $250,000 system is highly unusual among high school performance venues. MCH was tapped specifically for the project by the school only after re-construction was well underway (floor slabs were being poured) and opening night was a short 8 months away! 
During the gala re-opening in late May, Richard took his post behind the piano as choral members — including his daughter and son - provided the audience with a singing extravaganza that included Carpenters’ 1970s hits such as “Top of the World,” recently featured in the animated movie “Shrek Forever After.” “It’s like a gift that keeps on giving,” Carpenter joked about the 1973 upbeat ballad. “Some of the royalties paid for this theater.”
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View to stage from MCH-designed sound control porch. Richard & Mary Carpenter cutting.
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