Antunovich Associates collaborated with DePaul University to design a new state-of-the-art Music School and Performance Center at DePaul University’s Lincoln Park Campus. 

The Building houses several performance spaces, including concert, recital, and jazz halls. Student rehearsal rooms, practice rooms, and classrooms are strategically organized on the upper floors of the Building. The three-story atrium, known as Schaefer College Hall Lobby, greets visitors entering the venue and serves as a circulation spine, which helps to organize the programmed spaces of the building. This “interior street” is the eastern gateway to DePaul’s Lincoln Park Campus, open and accessible to all.

The building’s facade complements its historic Lincoln Park surroundings and is composed mainly of brick with stone panels and horizontal coursing as detail elements. Glass and stone, used throughout the exterior, are arranged to moderate the building’s mass and present a lively, active, atmosphere along Halsted Street. The building height is reduced at the edges through setbacks in the main volume to mediate between the required concert hall height and the surrounding residences.