Arts, Museum & Civic

Performance arts

Professional music performance & practice spaces have exacting acoustic requirements & enclosure design is a key component of meeting them, particularly in noisy urban environments. We collaborate with the design team to achieve world class audio conditions by:

Developing, assessing, & selecting acoustic glass assemblies to best meet aesthetic & performance goals,

Adding sound-controlling mass to facade framing without limiting thermal, seismic, and other movements.

Sample performance arts projects

Kwai Tsing Theatre – Hong Kong
San Francisco Conservatory of Music – San Francisco, CA
SFJAZZ Center – San Francisco, CA

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

The floodlit stone, glass & steel facade of the front of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music set against a night sky.

Kwai Tsing Theatre

SFJAZZ Center

Museums

Museums require precise daylight, temperature, & humidity control to preserve & display artwork. On our museum projects we therefore provide:

Comparative visualizations of daylight control for the specific requirements of each type of artwork displayed,

Facade detailing to eliminate condensation potential through robust thermal control, e.g., thermal breaks and thermal continuity at interfaces.

California Academy of Sciences

Panoramic view of the California Academy of Sciences building in Golden Gate Park showing the curvilinear grass roof with deep photovoltaic overhangs.

Cantor Visual Arts Center, Stanford University

The domed & vaulted roof interior of the Cantor Visual Arts Center at Stanford University.

Lisbon Aquarium

The illuminated facade of the Lisbon Aquarium against an inky sky & ocean.

de Young Museum

The punctured brown metal facade of the twisted tower and rectilinear building of the de Young Museum against a bright blue San Francisco sky.

Frederic C. Hamilton Building, Denver Art Museum

The cream angular facade faces of the Denver Art Museum set against a cloudy blue Colorado sky.

Sample museum projects

Ashmolean Museum – Oxford, UK
California Academy of Sciences – San Francisco, CA
Cantor Visual Arts Center – Stanford University, CA
Contemporary Art Museum Presidio – San Francisco, CA
de Young Museum – San Francisco, CA
Frederic C. Hamilton Building, Denver Art Museum – Denver, CO
Lisbon Aquarium – Lisbon, Portugal
Museo Nacional del Prado Extension – Madrid, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art – Los Angeles, CA
National Portrait Gallery – London, UK

Civic

Government building enclosures always require supplementary security features.

Some of these enclosures also need to be hardened to withstand blast & bullets.

We partner with the design team to develop robust enclosures that meet security requirements without compromising the aesthetic vision or other performance needs.

Seattle Convention Center

The charcoal and blue glass facade of the Seattle Convention Center.