This project is to design a recital hall and related facilities for the School of Music at Queen's university in Kingston, Ontario. The challenge of this project lies not only in the need to provide an excellent facility for the various performing groups of the School - orchestra, choir, chamber ensembles and soloists - as well as visiting performing groups, but also to achieve economies in planning and construction methods, in order to make such a project viable under the present-day conditions of severe university budget constraints. In addition, the new recital hall constitutes an extension of a fine existing building, designed by one of Canada's greatest 20th century architects, Ron Thom, and thus requires an imaginative and sensitive architectural approach.

Required Accommodation

A) Public Area: entry vestibule, publicity and box office, coat room, public lobby-lounge for 300, concession/bar (including kitchen and storage), washrooms, janitorial and storage

B) Aditorium: seating area, stage platform, organ loft, control suite

C) Support Areas: performers' entry, loading dock, corridor surrounding stage, storage (grand pianos, percussion/harp, chairs, risers, music stands, sound and lighting) dressing rooms (including showers and washrooms), warm-up/choral room, backstage washrooms, janitorial and storage, choral/instrumental music library, mechanical and electrical services rooms