EDUCATION

ASU Cronkite School - Journalism

In August 2008, ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication moved into its new state-of-the-art, 6-story journalism education complex in the heart of downtown Phoenix giving aspiring journalists and communication professionals unparalleled opportunities to work in academic and professional electronic journalism.

ASU McCord Hall

MCH provided full-scope acoustical and AV consulting on this dramatic new building by KPF and RSP which opened in 2013.

ASU Polytech Academic Complex

The new Academic Building complex at Arizona State University’s Polytechnic Campus in Mesa comprises 3 buildings to complement the technological emphasis of the polytechnic programs.

ASU School of Mgmt.

The old commissary at an Air Force Base in Arizona was completely renovated into an exciting facility with labs, classrooms and 2 tiered lecture facilities for ASU’s Agribusiness and Management School. Included, was the need to mitigate 113dB of golf ball impact noise to inaudibility in two adjacent classrooms.

Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music is a world-renowned educator and incubator of musicians, whose learning spaces often serve performance and recording. Renovations to various recital and recording spaces are essential to keeping up with leading-edge technologies.

CSUN Soraya

CSUN's new Soraya Performing Arts Center is rapidly becoming one of the top three destinations in Southern California for symphony, opera, pop, and Broadway performances.

CWR School of Mgmt.

A beautifully complex project in the Gehry style of steel and brick now serves the Weatherhead School. Interior geometries of doubly-curved, monolithic panels both sound reflecting and sound absorbing were optimized for excellent speech intelligibility in all the instruction spaces. State-of-the-art AV systems make it among the most leading edge facilities of its sort in the USA.

Cal Arts Wild Beast Music Pavilion

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 CalArts. Despite the curious shaping, the sound is rich, warm and highly uniform.

Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center

This facility operated by the Cleveland Clinic is dedicated to the research of neurological illnesses and serves as the headquarters for Keep Memory Alive.

Colburn School

Adjacent to LA’s Disney Concert Hall, sits another acoustically-prominent hall. Although it is considerably smaller, Zipper Concert Hall is no less revered for its fine acoustics, which are entirely adjustable – to suit its increasingly varied musical fare. The hall is only one component of a broadly serviceable series of spaces including rehearsal, recital, music and dance practice spaces plus faculty studios.

Fuller Theological Seminary Chapel

In its 50-year history, the largest seminary in North America has been without its own worship space. Because its performing arts work is a key component of its mission, it will soon have its own versatile, variable acoustics performing arts chapel with a prominent pipe organ.

Garrison Theater & Music Facility

This $12M Performing Arts center features an historic renovation of a 700 seat multipurpose hall, a new 110 seat highly flexible Recital/Rehearsal/Lecture Hall, multiple Faculty Music Studios and Music Classrooms as well as practice rooms.

Griffith Observatory

The original 1935 Planetarium was fully state-of-the art in its day. The sensitive expansion and renovation of the historic facility now boasts another truly state-of-the art planetarium perched above Hollywood, as well as expanded facilities underground.

Hameetman Center

The 26,000sf Hameetman Center at Caltech serves as a new community center, offering a modern gathering space for students and faculty. It completed as a renovation via an Integrated Project Delivery methodology in Spring 2019 for an undisclosed sum.

Harvard Hawes Hall Renovations

Harvard Business School is well known for case study methodology, utilizing collaborative discussions by all participants, and requiring excellent acoustics for speech intelligibility from all locations throughout the 65-person and 96-person classrooms.

Harvard Widener Memorial Library

This 1915 library stands at the geographical and intellectual heart of Harvard University. Its renewal called for a renovation that would redefine the programmatic and technical aspects of this academic research library, while maintaining the traditional aura and comfort.

ISU Stephens PAC

This large complex is the singular venue for serious music north of Salt Lake City and east of Seattle. Included are a 1200 seat Concert Hall with variable acoustics, a Thrust Stage theater and a Black Box.

Lovett Upper & Lower School

The Lovett School, founded in 1926 and located along the Chattahoochee River near Atlanta, is a private K-12 school. All of Lovett's 2008 graduates were admitted to four-year colleges.

MIT Dreyfus Chemistry Lab

The Dreyfus Chemistry Laboratory covers 130,000 sq. ft. at the heart of the MIT campus, housing primary research in organic chemistry, biochemistry, and physical chemistry.

MIT Media Lab

The MIT Media Lab, world-renowned crucible for invention and innovation, required a radical architectural approach to encourage its cross-disciplinary research

MIT Stata Center

This remarkable facility serves nearly all disciplines associated with the human/computer interface while successfully permitting close association of otherwise disparate, albeit closely- related subdisciplines.

Midwestern University Auditorium

MCH provided full-scope acoustical and AV consulting for this innovative, medical conference center divisible into 5 classrooms.

Music Academy of the West

The Music Academy of the West is a preeminent school for highly-gifted young classically-trained musicians from around the world.

NAU Kitt Recital Hall

Northern Arizona University's renovated and expanded Music Building on the NAU Flagstaff campus recently opened featuring the state-of-the art, 250-seat Kitt Recital Hall, rehearsal and practice room spaces for instrumental and vocal studies, as well as choral and instrument libraries.

NAU Science and Health Building

This 122,000sf, $53M building is scheduled for completion in Spring 2015. The project features departmental offices, lecture halls and classrooms, teaching labs, research labs and a new central chemical distribution facility for the entire chemistry department.

Notre Dame Campus Crossroads

In early 2014, the University of Notre Dame announced their $400M plans to turn their stadium into a centralized, year-round hub.

OCC Planetarium

This planetarium features a 129-seat state-of-the art Presentation/Lecture Hall/Dome Theatre, a Focault Pendulum, a NOAA Science on a Sphere Globe, an Exhibit Hall with interactive touch displays, and a gift shop.

Popejoy Hall & Keller Recital Hall

The 2200 seat Popejoy Hall at the University of New Mexico underwent a major renovation whose result was was improved audience access, easier stage operations, and most importantly, amazingly versatile acoustics.

Sierra Nevada Science Center

This LEED Platinum center with labs and academic facilities dedicated to studying and preserving pristine Lake Tahoe represents a fine collaboration between two interested academic institutions as well as the states of California and Nevada.

South Mt. Performing Arts Center

This two building project for Maricopa County Community Colleges provides wonderfully versatile facilities for teaching and performing in the arts. The acoustics of the main hall are recognized as a benchmark example for similar facilities in Phoenix while its architecture is widely praised by design professionals who have learned of the facility.

The Thacher School PAC

This $17M Performing Arts center for a preparatory academy, features a 450 seat multipurpose hall, a choral rehearsal room, dance studio and music practice rooms. MCH provided full-scope acoustical and audiovisual consulting.

Tufts Granoff Music Center

The Granoff Music Center opened in February 2007 to remarkable enthusiasm as the new home of the Music Department at Tufts University. The centerpiece, Distler Performance Hall, is acclaimed for both performance and recording.

UC Davis Mondavi Center

Since the night the main hall opened to marvelous accolades from the Sacramento Bee and Michael Tilson Thomas when he conducted his San Francisco Symphony, the entire facility has been a major “hit” in California as well as a key component of performing arts on the UC Davis campus.

UCLA Royce Hall Renovation

After the 1994 Northridge earthquake, UCLA’s 1800 seat Royce Hall was thoroughly renovated and sensitively restored to its Romanesque form while dramatically improving its acoustic versatility.

UCSB CA Nanosystems Institute

The California Nanosystems Institute serves both the CNSI scientists as well as bleeding-edge media technologies research and presentation programs of UCSB’s MATP students and faculty. Included is a 3-story “immersion” theater for both interdisciplinary work in cognitive sciences and performance experimentation examining such topics as ambisonics, auralization and 3D visualizations of hypothetic structures.

UCSC Music School

The UC Santa Cruz Music Center features an acoustically variable Recital Hall, two large rehearsal rooms and multiple faculty studios and practice rooms.