The new 5-story building will be home for the graduate, MBA and Executive Education programs and will feature approximately 10 tiered case study classrooms, a prominent raked-seating auditorium, a career management center plus the requisite administrative and faculty support spaces.

The design is highly novel acoustically, open, fluid and flexible, enabling a myriad of performance opportunities for every program in the Herb Alpert School of Music at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia.  Despite the curious shaping, the sound is rich, warm and highly uniform. All musical styles and cultures represented in the school's curriculum can be accommodated by the pavilion's flexible design including addressing serious functional needs of our school such as additional rehearsal and classroom space.  The 3,200-square foot structure seats about 100 when closed; its open-air band-shell configuration accommodates an audience of well over 700.  See the NBC feature at http://www.nbclosangeles.com/station/as-seen-on/Cal_Arts_Wild_Beast_Roars_Onto_Campus_Los_Angeles.html

In March 2008, the City of Santa Barbara reopened the $45M, 1600 seat Granada Theatre to rave reviews. Initially opened in 1924 as a film and vaudville venue, the Granada treated audiences to live performances by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Helen Hayes,  world-class ballet companies, the New York and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras and the Cleveland Orchestra. It's now the new home to the highly regarded Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra. Close Details Since the 1970s the venue served principally as a film theater and had fallen into significant disrepair.  The Granada now serves as a large-scale, year-round venue for theater, dance, orchestra, recitals, opera, musicals, film series (including premiers and film festivals), lectures and conferences. Of prime importance, is  its new role as the home of the much lauded Santa Barbara Symphony. Much was required to bring it up to the expectations of both today's performers and  audiences including back-of-house support in a full, new basement plus expansion of the backstage.  MCH was engaged to provide both acoustical and audiovisual  quidance and design to meet the needs of all performers.  MCH's work involved noise control design for entirely new HVAC and exterior noise control in an urban environment, scrupulous interviews with the extraordinarily wide range of user groups, careful acoustical modeling and subsequent design for acoustical improvements, design of  a custom orchestra shell, variable acoustics and full audio and film & video recording and projection systems to serve all users including the Santa Barbara Film Festival.   Opening night inspired rave reviews.  Steven Libowitz (Monticeto Journal) commented "The acoustics in the new theater are so crisp, so clear, each instrument so articulate. I'm not sure I ever want to hear music in any other hall in Santa Barbara again". A 15 year veteran violinist commented that "he was simply overwhelmed and overjoyed by the acoustics.....that the Granada was as good as the great halls of the world, including the Berlin Philharmonic."

CSUF's Performing Arts Center, opened in 2006, boasts 4 new venues with some unusual characteristics to to meet the needs of music, theater, and dance. The 800-seat Meng Hall features wrap-around seating and cathedral-like ceilings requiring creativity from the MCH team to find a curvature of the kites, not apparent to the eye, but enough to spread the sound energy exactly. A variable acoustics was imperative to allow Meng Hall to successful host a range of performances. Young Theatre is a 250-seat thrust theater with a balcony to create an intimate feel and features state-of-the-art lighting and audio-visual systems.  Designed for smaller plays and experimental works, the 150-seat Hallberg Theatre is a ‘black-box’ theater. Movable seating platforms and risers allow completely flexible configurations. Although relatively small, the room has state-of-the-art lighting and audio-visual systems, a full catwalk system, and absorptive walls, banded in cherry wood, designed to dampen reverberation – excellent for spoken word.  The Samuelson Musical Rehearsal Hall, McGarvey Dance Studio  along with additional dance studios, recording studio, scene shop, classrooms and faculty offices complete the facility.  MCH provided full-scope acoustical consulting on this $48.5M, 109,000sf center.  Visit: http://calstate.fullerton.edu/news/2005/performingarts/create.html                "A first class concert hall."  - Orange County Register The $95M Mesa Arts Center, when it opened in  September 2005, became both a major cornerstone and revitalization project in downtown Mesa consuming a very large city block.  As the largest Arts and Performing Arts Complex in Arizona, the 178,530sf center includes 4 performance venues (1,600-seat, 550-seat, 200-seat and 99-seat studio theatre), an arts education facility (both graphic and performing arts), an art gallery and meeting spaces.  Additionally,  three acres of the site provide for civic gatherings and outdoor performances. The venues depicted here are the Ikeda Theatre (variable acoustics for the Mesa Symphony and 1st run touring roadshows such as Annie), the Piper Theater (fixed-variable optimized acoustics for drama, the Sonoran Desert Chorale, touring and local groups’ use) and the Playhouse Theater (Children's and other community use).  MCH provided full-scope acoustical and audiovisual systems planning and design for the entire complex.  Visit:  http://www.mesaarts.com/aboutTheCenter.htm

The building is also now home to one of the nation's largest PBS stations, KAET/8, and is the culmination of a unique partnership between ASU and the City of Phoenix.  Featured prominently in the 6-story building is a two-story public forum with balconies for formal events and informal gatherings.  Five working newsrooms cover TV, print, radio multimedia and PR.  Two TV studios with adjoining digital control rooms provide daily newscasts and satellite feeds supported by multiple edit bays and related teaching-function spaces. Public radio KBAQ is provided with production recording and control studios.  Additional academic spaces include a 150-seat theater style auditorium, 12 classrooms of which four are now fully mediated.  MCH provided full-scope acoustical, audiovisual and broadcast systems design.