■  The Arizona State University Music School joins an ensemble of three monumental public buildings; the Gammage Center by Frank Lloyd Wright, The Fine Arts Center by Antoine Predock, and the Music Building by the Taliesin Fellowship. The Music Building Expansion incorporates a recital hall, a rehearsal hall, departments for jazz, percussion, electronic music, choral, organ, and music education, and a 30,000 square foot music library. The project also includes faculty studios, graduate teaching assistant offices, practice rooms, and the auxiliary, technical and administration spaces. Mathes Brierre Architects, formerly The DWL Architects and Planners in Phoenix.

■  The Music School incorporates a 900 seat Concert Hall, a 200-seat organ/ recital hall and an art gallery. The Organ/Recital Hall is a multi-functional space with seating that is moveable and can be rearranged. Recitals take place upon a stage at one side, while organ performances are viewed from the opposite end. This space also features a viewing balcony, allowing a raised position for the pipe organ, enhancing the quality of the organ's sound. The curvilinear lobby connects all the primary building spaces including the courtyard. This central space is an important design element and symbolic to the Mennonite faith, respecting the founders of Goshen College.

■  The design concept for the library was to blend a new aesthetic with the existing Tudor Gothic architecture of the original campus buildings. Matching brick and cast stone were used to emulate the original architecture, but larger window openings allow significantly more diffused light, though red (Jesuit) crosses, into the spacious interiors. The Library has recently (2009) been rated the 5th best in the country by the Princeton Review.

■  The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts was established in 1973 as a “training center” for students in theater, music, dance, communications, and the visual arts. From 1973 until 1999, it was housed in the old LaSalle School in uptown New Orleans and produced world famous performers like Wynton Marsalis and Harry Connick, Jr. The new NOCCA weaves all classrooms, studios, and performance facilities into a campus environment evoking the spontaneity and creativity of the students and incorporating several existing historically significant cotton warehouse buildings and new buildings for the specialized spaced required for the activities that take place therein.

■  The Building consists of 64 faculty studios, 80 practice rooms, a band rehearsal hall, a choral rehearsal hall, opera rehearsal hall and an ensemble hall as well as a small recital hall, library, classrooms and administrative offices. The design borrows art deco detailing from other buildings on campus, though the detailing has been simplified to modern brick construction. Monumental murals by world-renowned abstract artist, Frank Stella, adorn the Opera Lobby ceiling, the rear wall of the mezzanine and the oval shaped catwalk of the Opera Hall itself.