VSBA

VSBA designed this major new multi-use music education and student residence building for the renowned Curtis Institute of Music. The expansion — on a historic block of Philadelphia’s Locust Street — provides state-of-the-art facilities for practice and teaching, an orchestral rehearsal room, and student residences, all in close proximity to existing facilities on Rittenhouse Square. […]

VSBA has worked with the renowned Curtis Institute of Music to expand its urban campus, from design of the new Lenfest Hall education, performance, and residence building through a series of renovations to different buildings. This renovation feasibility study was conducted for Curtis’s historic Main Building, which incorporates three structures — the George W. Childs […]

VSBA created this new organ studio for the Curtis Institute of Music. We renovated and adapted spaces in Curtis’s historic main building to create the practice facility. The new chamber accommodates a custom-designed pipe organ while offering open studio space for the organ console and its users. The instrument itself was designed and installed by […]

The Rock Resource Center library is an important study center and repository for the Curtis Institute’s printed and audio materials, archives, and digital collections. VSBA led the reprogramming and complete renovation of the building in two phases to improve reader services, study areas, collection storage, and staff offices. Building systems were replaced and a new […]

The Curtis Institute recently acquired 1620 Locust Street, which neighbors VSBA’s earlier Lenfest Hall.  We helped transform it into the Rubenstein Centre, a new administrative facility, by converting over 20 offices and supporting spaces.