UNLV - Lee and Thomas Beam Music Center

This facility comprises a 300-seat recital hall, two large rehearsal spaces, several teaching studios, practice rooms, a recording studio and a library listening center.  Great care was taken for sound isolation in all spaces, being conscious of mechanical systems and locations, structural isolation, acoustical isolation between rooms and outside noise of vehicular and air traffic.

This is the first phase of an ultimate build-out of 50,000sf master planned for the site.  The second phase will include all percussion rehearsal spaces, a piano shop and several additional practice and teaching studios.

This new music center is intended to form the northeast gateway to the University of Nevada Las Vegas.  Utilizing the high volume spaces, the building curves gently along Maryland Parkway, pinching the street with its mass.  The public entry and lobby slice perpendicular from the parking through the curve, revealing itself to the street and allowing a reduction in scale for the pedestrian traffic.  At night the transparent lobby, surrounded by high opaque mass, comes alive with light, again calling attention to the edge of campus.

Location: Las Vegas, NV
Size: 35,000sf

American Institute of Architects - Nevada, Built Category Merit Award, 2002
American Institute of Architects - Nevada, Unbuilt Category Merit Award, 1997