GREEN MUSIC CENTER
Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
A 105,000-square-foot music village in the vineyards was designed to include a 1,400 seat concert hall opening to lawn seating for 2,000, along with an adjoining 300-seat recital/rehearsal hall, a donors’ lounge, reception lobbies, music practice rooms, musician and performer support spaces, and teaching studios. The facility serves as the home of the Santa Rosa Symphony, a touring venue for popular musical artists and dance groups, a university conference center, and the main home for the university’s Music Department. (Alan Joslin, as a Principal-in-Charge of Design with William Rawn Associates, Architects; executive architect A.C. Martin Partners, Inc.)
Realization
“...Weill Hall is not simply the most physically and acoustically beautiful concert/symphony hall in Northern California, it is also a musical instrument singing forth the finest pianissimos on the piano and fullest sounds an orchestra makes...”
Project Data
STATUS: Completed 2012
SIZE: 105,000 sf
COST: $110 million
Project Credits
OWNER: Sonoma State University
CONTRACTOR: Rudolph and Sletten
ARCHITECT: William Rawn Associates, Architects; A.C. Martin Partners, Inc., executive architect
IMAGE COPYRIGHT: Charles Gesell, and Scott Hess Photography; Al Forrester, Renderings
Honors and Awards
2017 North Bay Bohemian: Best Outdoor Music Venue
2016 North Bay Bohemian: Best Outdoor Music Venue
2014 CSU Facilities Management Conference: Best Practice in Architecture and Engineering Award
2014 CSU Facilities Management Conference: Overall Best Practice Award
2012 North Bay Business Journal: Top Real Estate Projects Special Award