The New World Center, home to the state-of-the-art New World Symphony, is located in the heart of Miami Beach’s Art Deco District. The facility provides artistic professional development for outstanding instrumentalists from around the world. It was designed to support practice, rehearsals, performance, recording and broadcasting for its distinguished students, with high-quality acoustics and sound attenuation throughout. Our Team provided preconstruction services, estimating, project management and construction services for this sophisticated 6-story, 106,000 SF facility. The building includes a 50,000 SF variable seating performance hall, a digital music library, 26 individual rehearsal rooms, six ensemble rehearsal rooms and a multi-purpose room-all outfitted with Internet 2 technology. Signature features of the campus include the east façade of the building, which showcases a glass curtain wall, allowing passersby a glimpse of the inside architecture, and a projection wall on which live concerts, master classes, large-scale images and films can be viewed from the new park in front of the building. The shoebox shaped building has an 80-foot tall atrium with four free-form, free-standing multi-function rooms set between the 756-seat performance hall and a six-story office building, which also houses practice studios and mechanical rooms. The building designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry has earned world-wide recognition and in 2012, Our Team received the Associated Builders and Contractors Eagle Award for excellence in construction.