The project was a joint venture with CRS of Houston, Texas. The firm’s responsibilities included contract documents, contract administration, and collaboration on design. The program was a multiform, multipurpose hall to accommodate audiences of various sizes for various types of performances, including symphony orchestra concerts, opera, ballet, chamber music, and plays.

The project was resolved into a wide fan-plan house with three levels of continental seating; orchestra, grand tier and flying balcony. 

The house, stage, and lobby spaces are contained or defined by four major concrete elements: stage house, two circulation towers, and a “great wall” which insulates the complex from an adjacent main railway. A folded plate roof spans from stage loft to the great wall. These prismatic masses are stitched together by glass at two entrances which are joined by one huge lobby sweeping along the great wall. One entrance faces the community; the other faces the campus. A sequence of landscaped terraces encloses support facilities, offices and an underground parking structure.