The Diana Center has been designed to facilitate and encourage greater interaction, exchange of ideas, and rigorous and creative thinking by everyone in the Barnard community. The state-of-the-art facilities and event spaces will strengthen the teaching and learning that takes place at the College through expanded academic, cultural, and community programs.

First opened in 1971 as the Cross Campus Library, Bass Library as entirely gutted in the course of a renovation completed in 2007. The library accommodates a 150,000 volume core collection and a variety of study areas in a two story, 60,000 square foot underground structure. Jaffe Holden consulted on room acoustics, sound isolation, and mechanical systems noise and vibration control. The main reading areas have quiet environments and are sound isolated from individual study areas.

JaffeHolden collaborated with Perkins Eastman on this High School for International Students. The project included a 400-seat multi-use theater, band room, choral room and string room. The stage house is confi gured in wood panels with the proscenium walls folding back, so that in the music mode the room is a concert hall, both visually and acoustically.

Designed by world famous theater Architect Malcolm Holzman of Holzman Moss Architecture in New York City, the 1500 seat concert hall features 2 wrap-around seating galleries and rear orchestra platform choral seats. The acoustical design includes 4 copper-clad overhead acoustical reflectors, large swaths of adjustable acoustical curtains to vary the reverberation time for different programs and a “floating” wood stage floor. The stage fl oor construction features a hollow wood cavity for the string sections and a more rigid base for the winds, brass and percussion to provide more even balance of the orchestra’s sonic energy.

The lecture hall at the Doudna Fine Arts Center seats 150. A handsome combination of wood, fabric, glass and plaster gives this room a warm feel. State of the art audio and video systems present clear sound and images. The room is linked to the master control room of the facility for recording and monitoring. A relatively low ceiling due to existing conditions provided a challenge for our equipment designers - we used low profi le speakers and projectors and a hidden screen behind wood panels on the rear wall.

The new home for the Schools of Business will use state-of-the-art technology and ground-breaking design to foster heightened faculty-student engagement. The hall will be built around a “living room” concept that brings faculty and students together in new ways, including flexible classrooms and collaborative spaces that take advantage of technological advances and allow for interactive learning. Graduate students and undergraduate students will have the opportunity to interact within this new shared space.

This new Morris Cultural Arts Center is located on the campus of Houston Baptist University. The project includes a 1200-seat University Theater and 365-seat Belin Chapel and Recital Hall. The theater features orchestra, parterre, mezzanine boxes, balcony and balcony box area seating. The flexible space is designed for the Music and Theatre Department as well as community orchestras and touring productions. The Chapel at HBU is a marvelous space for acoustic music because of the tall acoustic volume.

JaffeHolden’s scope for this project was architectural acoustics, sound isolation, noise and vibration control. The theatre is an intimate double rake seating confi guration with a fixed acoustic. Adjustable side panels in the side technical lighting coves allow for better reflection of sound depending on where the panels are located. The panels double as lighting masking as well. The studio theatre features a tension wire grid and is acoustically isolated from the classrooms above via a sound control ceiling. The recording studio, in the lowest level of the complex is a box-in box construction with floating floors, walls and ceilings. The studio has adjustable drapes and non-parallel walls and a diffusive ceiling and prefabricated isolation booth. The control room has a large window into the studio and features low frequency bass traps, diffusive rear wall and adjustable wall absorption panels.

The recital hall is a beautiful wood room with an over-stage canopy for musician cross-stage hearing. The room incorporates adjustable banners on the upper side walls and curtains in the attic all motorized to adjust the acoustics for different music ensembles as are typical for a music school.

The new Performing Arts Center at Sam Houston State University has been a dream of the Fine Arts departments at this State University an hour north of Houston. The center has become the home for the school’s music, theater, and dance departments becoming the connecting tissue between the existing music building and drama buildings built in the 70’s. Designed by WHR Architects, the facility includes a magnifi cent 800 seat concert hall, 150 seat recital hall, 150-seat dance performance hall, and rehearsal and education studios. The 101,945 square foot Performing Arts Center will bring the three departments together and will allow them to collaborate and partner in new ways not possible previously.

The School of American Ballet is part of the official training academy for the New York City Ballet. The new addition includes two new dance studios within the space of the two existing dance studios. The stacked studios are each 10 feet floor to ceiling in height. The new studios appear to fl oat within the existing studios.

The centerpiece of the downtown redevelopment plan for the City of Columbus is a new $45-million landmark building that opened in 2001. This facility features the 2,000-seat, Bill Heard multi-use hall, the 450-seat Legacy Recital Hall with organ and an experimental theater. Included in this complex is the new School of Music for Columbus State University, which encompasses four large rehearsal rooms, teaching suites and numerous practice rooms all acoustically isolated with sound control doors, windows, fl oors and ceilings.

The Science and Engineering Research and Classroom Complex houses the expanding College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and the College of Engineering. Designed to attract the best researchers, the complex was built to help the University of Houston reach its goal of becoming a top-ranked research institution.

The new business school building complex will include approximately 250,000 gross square feet of office, meeting and instructional spaces with complementary spaces such as cafe, library, and business incubator spaces. This facility will be located in the heart of Innovista, the university’s research district.

The Forbes Center is home to the School of Music and the School of Theatre and Dance. Accommodating two concert halls, three theaters, as well as a collection of rehearsal, studio and practice rooms, the facility’s acoustical design provides a superior performing and learning environment for all who pass through its doors.

The Juilliard School’s new spaces include: instrument practice rooms on three of the four added floors, faculty teaching studios, administrative offi ces, a recording studio, a multi-form “black box” theatre, two jazz teaching and ensemble studios, a large dance studio, several organ practice rooms and a large orchestra rehearsal room. A major interior circulation route follows a spectacular four-story high glass curtain wall on the Broadway façade, allowing prominent views both into and from the building.

Brown University opened the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the CreativeArts in 2011 to foster interdisciplinary work between the arts, humanities and the sciences. Programs and courses have been developed for collaboration between these groups to create new art forms, new approaches to collaborative work, and explore, examine, and extend our understanding of the creative process.

Bass Concert Halls renovation was to focus on two main areas. First was to improve the acoustics for Broadway and headliner shows. The second was to provide a new sound reinforcement system to deliver clear, bright, intelligible sound for those acts. While Bass Hall’s primary function is to support amplified events, it was also important that the acoustics were still superior for the classicalconcerts put on by the well respected University of Texas Orchestra. Extensive adjustable systems were integrated into a new ceiling design and the side walls of the hall were re-shaped. Now the hall can provide acoustic excellence for both the amplifi ed and classical events.

The handsome, 1,100-seat Hodgson Hall demonstrates that world-class acoustics can be achieved even when the budget suggests something less than world class. Careful attention to detail and close collaboration between the architects and JaffeHolden allowed the University to get the best of both worlds, a concert hall that Atlanta Symphony Orchestra music director Yoel Levi has called a “truly a first-rate concert hall” and a building that met the University’s strict budget constraints.

The project entailed the renovation of an existing 1920’s era Albert Kahn building, which was constructed for a Hartford Cadillac dealership. While the exterior of the building was preserved, the interior was converted for the performance and teaching facilities for the University of Hartford’s, Hartt School of Fine Arts. The center consists of two large black box performance theaters, several dance rehearsal rooms, movement studios, ensemble classrooms and studios. To gain the needed volume for the rehearsal rooms, the roof was opened up and the height of the room extended. All of the spaces are sound isolated without the use of concrete, instead mass loaded gypsum board partitions were used to save thickness, weight and cost. The results achieved very high degree of sound isolation.

The centerpiece of the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music is the Moores Opera House, an 800-seat “jewel box” theater that can accommodate the full range of student productions—operas, symphony orchestra concerts, jazz ensembles, and popular music events.

The world-class, 1,100-seat Winspear Performance Hall is the showpiece of the University of North Texas’s dazzling new Murchison Performing Arts Center. The facility houses the university’s Department of Dance and Theatre Arts as well as its College of Music, internationally recognized as one of America’s foremost institutions for preparing professional musicians in all fields. Winspear Hall is designed to accommodate choral, symphonic, and ensemble performances. JaffeHolden acoustic consultants advised on many aspects of the design of the Murchison Center, which also contains rehearsal halls, offices, a recording studio, and the 400-seat Lyric theater.

The Diana Center has been designed to facilitate and encourage greater interaction, exchange of ideas, and rigorous and creative thinking by everyone in the Barnard community. The state-of-the-art facilities and event spaces will strengthen the teaching and learning that takes place at the College through expanded academic, cultural, and community programs.

First opened in 1971 as the Cross Campus Library, Bass Library as entirely gutted in the course of a renovation completed in 2007. The library accommodates a 150,000 volume core collection and a variety of study areas in a two story, 60,000 square foot underground structure. Jaffe Holden consulted on room acoustics, sound isolation, and mechanical systems noise and vibration control. The main reading areas have quiet environments and are sound isolated from individual study areas.

JaffeHolden collaborated with Perkins Eastman on this High School for International Students. The project included a 400-seat multi-use theater, band room, choral room and string room. The stage house is confi gured in wood panels with the proscenium walls folding back, so that in the music mode the room is a concert hall, both visually and acoustically.

Designed by world famous theater Architect Malcolm Holzman of Holzman Moss Architecture in New York City, the 1500 seat concert hall features 2 wrap-around seating galleries and rear orchestra platform choral seats. The acoustical design includes 4 copper-clad overhead acoustical reflectors, large swaths of adjustable acoustical curtains to vary the reverberation time for different programs and a “floating” wood stage floor. The stage fl oor construction features a hollow wood cavity for the string sections and a more rigid base for the winds, brass and percussion to provide more even balance of the orchestra’s sonic energy.

The lecture hall at the Doudna Fine Arts Center seats 150. A handsome combination of wood, fabric, glass and plaster gives this room a warm feel. State of the art audio and video systems present clear sound and images. The room is linked to the master control room of the facility for recording and monitoring. A relatively low ceiling due to existing conditions provided a challenge for our equipment designers - we used low profi le speakers and projectors and a hidden screen behind wood panels on the rear wall.

The new home for the Schools of Business will use state-of-the-art technology and ground-breaking design to foster heightened faculty-student engagement. The hall will be built around a “living room” concept that brings faculty and students together in new ways, including flexible classrooms and collaborative spaces that take advantage of technological advances and allow for interactive learning. Graduate students and undergraduate students will have the opportunity to interact within this new shared space.

This new Morris Cultural Arts Center is located on the campus of Houston Baptist University. The project includes a 1200-seat University Theater and 365-seat Belin Chapel and Recital Hall. The theater features orchestra, parterre, mezzanine boxes, balcony and balcony box area seating. The flexible space is designed for the Music and Theatre Department as well as community orchestras and touring productions. The Chapel at HBU is a marvelous space for acoustic music because of the tall acoustic volume.

JaffeHolden’s scope for this project was architectural acoustics, sound isolation, noise and vibration control. The theatre is an intimate double rake seating confi guration with a fixed acoustic. Adjustable side panels in the side technical lighting coves allow for better reflection of sound depending on where the panels are located. The panels double as lighting masking as well. The studio theatre features a tension wire grid and is acoustically isolated from the classrooms above via a sound control ceiling. The recording studio, in the lowest level of the complex is a box-in box construction with floating floors, walls and ceilings. The studio has adjustable drapes and non-parallel walls and a diffusive ceiling and prefabricated isolation booth. The control room has a large window into the studio and features low frequency bass traps, diffusive rear wall and adjustable wall absorption panels.

The recital hall is a beautiful wood room with an over-stage canopy for musician cross-stage hearing. The room incorporates adjustable banners on the upper side walls and curtains in the attic all motorized to adjust the acoustics for different music ensembles as are typical for a music school.

The new Performing Arts Center at Sam Houston State University has been a dream of the Fine Arts departments at this State University an hour north of Houston. The center has become the home for the school’s music, theater, and dance departments becoming the connecting tissue between the existing music building and drama buildings built in the 70’s. Designed by WHR Architects, the facility includes a magnifi cent 800 seat concert hall, 150 seat recital hall, 150-seat dance performance hall, and rehearsal and education studios. The 101,945 square foot Performing Arts Center will bring the three departments together and will allow them to collaborate and partner in new ways not possible previously.

The School of American Ballet is part of the official training academy for the New York City Ballet. The new addition includes two new dance studios within the space of the two existing dance studios. The stacked studios are each 10 feet floor to ceiling in height. The new studios appear to fl oat within the existing studios.

The centerpiece of the downtown redevelopment plan for the City of Columbus is a new $45-million landmark building that opened in 2001. This facility features the 2,000-seat, Bill Heard multi-use hall, the 450-seat Legacy Recital Hall with organ and an experimental theater. Included in this complex is the new School of Music for Columbus State University, which encompasses four large rehearsal rooms, teaching suites and numerous practice rooms all acoustically isolated with sound control doors, windows, fl oors and ceilings.

The Science and Engineering Research and Classroom Complex houses the expanding College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and the College of Engineering. Designed to attract the best researchers, the complex was built to help the University of Houston reach its goal of becoming a top-ranked research institution.

The new business school building complex will include approximately 250,000 gross square feet of office, meeting and instructional spaces with complementary spaces such as cafe, library, and business incubator spaces. This facility will be located in the heart of Innovista, the university’s research district.

The Forbes Center is home to the School of Music and the School of Theatre and Dance. Accommodating two concert halls, three theaters, as well as a collection of rehearsal, studio and practice rooms, the facility’s acoustical design provides a superior performing and learning environment for all who pass through its doors.

The Juilliard School’s new spaces include: instrument practice rooms on three of the four added floors, faculty teaching studios, administrative offi ces, a recording studio, a multi-form “black box” theatre, two jazz teaching and ensemble studios, a large dance studio, several organ practice rooms and a large orchestra rehearsal room. A major interior circulation route follows a spectacular four-story high glass curtain wall on the Broadway façade, allowing prominent views both into and from the building.

Brown University opened the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the CreativeArts in 2011 to foster interdisciplinary work between the arts, humanities and the sciences. Programs and courses have been developed for collaboration between these groups to create new art forms, new approaches to collaborative work, and explore, examine, and extend our understanding of the creative process.

Bass Concert Halls renovation was to focus on two main areas. First was to improve the acoustics for Broadway and headliner shows. The second was to provide a new sound reinforcement system to deliver clear, bright, intelligible sound for those acts. While Bass Hall’s primary function is to support amplified events, it was also important that the acoustics were still superior for the classicalconcerts put on by the well respected University of Texas Orchestra. Extensive adjustable systems were integrated into a new ceiling design and the side walls of the hall were re-shaped. Now the hall can provide acoustic excellence for both the amplifi ed and classical events.

The handsome, 1,100-seat Hodgson Hall demonstrates that world-class acoustics can be achieved even when the budget suggests something less than world class. Careful attention to detail and close collaboration between the architects and JaffeHolden allowed the University to get the best of both worlds, a concert hall that Atlanta Symphony Orchestra music director Yoel Levi has called a “truly a first-rate concert hall” and a building that met the University’s strict budget constraints.

The project entailed the renovation of an existing 1920’s era Albert Kahn building, which was constructed for a Hartford Cadillac dealership. While the exterior of the building was preserved, the interior was converted for the performance and teaching facilities for the University of Hartford’s, Hartt School of Fine Arts. The center consists of two large black box performance theaters, several dance rehearsal rooms, movement studios, ensemble classrooms and studios. To gain the needed volume for the rehearsal rooms, the roof was opened up and the height of the room extended. All of the spaces are sound isolated without the use of concrete, instead mass loaded gypsum board partitions were used to save thickness, weight and cost. The results achieved very high degree of sound isolation.

The centerpiece of the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music is the Moores Opera House, an 800-seat “jewel box” theater that can accommodate the full range of student productions—operas, symphony orchestra concerts, jazz ensembles, and popular music events.

The world-class, 1,100-seat Winspear Performance Hall is the showpiece of the University of North Texas’s dazzling new Murchison Performing Arts Center. The facility houses the university’s Department of Dance and Theatre Arts as well as its College of Music, internationally recognized as one of America’s foremost institutions for preparing professional musicians in all fields. Winspear Hall is designed to accommodate choral, symphonic, and ensemble performances. JaffeHolden acoustic consultants advised on many aspects of the design of the Murchison Center, which also contains rehearsal halls, offices, a recording studio, and the 400-seat Lyric theater.