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New England Conservatory
Student Life and Performance Center
Located in Boston’s East Fenway district, NEC offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, continuing education, and a K–12 music preparatory program. The Student Life and Performance Center creates a vibrant new environment for NEC’s academic and community life. Its lower floors house orchestra, jazz rehearsal and recording rooms, a black box opera studio, music library, dining commons, and gathering spaces. The upper floors provide social spaces and housing for 256 students in a combination of singles, doubles, and suites.
The exterior of the building is a composition of terracotta tiles applied in variegated patterns, with broad expanses of glass at street level and a stainless-steel screen cladding the performance wing. The project included revitalizing NEC’s two-block streetscape as an active campus and community setting, with seating, trees, and widened sidewalks.
New England Conservatory of Music
Completed 2017; LEED Gold
125,000 SF
Rehearsal Performance, Dining, Library, Residential
ENR New England Award of Merit Higher Education/
Research
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