The program features a recording studio, flexible rehearsal and performance spaces, teaching studios and practice rooms, a prominent privately held jazz recordings and rare photographs collection; all coupled with a sequence of distributed informal public spaces. The building is organized, inside and out, to promote social engagement and creative exchange.

The project mediates between a parking backlot and Yamasaki’s neo-gothic white modernism. Consequently the building brackets a landscape that serves both the college and community creating an axial alle to Tappan Square, the historic center of Town. This axis organizes exterior and interior building circulation ascending and culminating in a roof terrace atop the recording studio. The Sky Bar hangs above the axial plaza, serving as a new social hub and completing a circulation loop between new and old; highlighted variably by gardens, borrowed views and intellectual loitering.

Kohl Building

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