Best Green Building: UM's Patricia Louise Frost Music Studios
Located in the heart of the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus, the Frost Music Studios project is part of a $61.5-million master plan that will nearly double the school’s space while preserving its historically significant architectural elements.
The project includes two new three-story buildings and 17,000 sq ft of renovations. UM’s school of music’s existing facilities comprised a group of disparate buildings dating from the 1950s. The Skanska and HOK team integrated the two new buildings by designing them as wings of the existing facility that could not be removed due to its historical significance. The two new buildings flank the renovated building with a 27,000-sq-ft north wing and a 14,000-sq-ft south wing. Designed with attention to acoustical requirements, the buildings contain two rehearsal halls plus 77 music studios.