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Project • By Robert A.M. Stern Architects • Universities

Schwarzman Center

Yale’s Schwarzman Center transforms Carrère & Hastings’ historic Commons and three floors of the adjoining Memorial Hall—components of their 1901 Bicentennial Buildings—into a social hub for the university’s undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Capitalizing on its location at the geographic center of campus, the Schwarzman Center is dedicated to both cultural programming and student life, outfitted with state-of-the-art technology that enables virtual engagement with the Yale community away from campus, as well as with the broader public. © Francis Dzikowski/OTTO © Francis Dzikowski/OTTO © Francis Dzikowski/OTTO The renovations retain and restore the buil... More

Tom Arban

Project • By KPMB Architects • Heritages

Adams Center for Musical Arts, Yale University

Enhancing the artistic and cultural outlook of YaleThe Adams Center for Musical Arts forms part of a new locus for music learning and performance at Yale. Alongside teaching and practice spaces, the Center accommodates facilities for undergraduate programs such as the Yale Band, Glee Club, Philharmonia, and Symphony. It includes a new orchestra hall, a digital recording studio, and a commons area.The new addition is sited and massed to extend the façade alignment, scale, and materiality of Leigh Hall and the Yale Cross Campus ensemble of buildings from the west of College Street. It is also positioned to anticipate the future extension of the green, which would realize the long-term master plan vision that was proposed by John Russell Pope... More