QUINN EVANS | ARCHITECTS transformed Peabody’s campus by opening it to the neighborhood, enhancing its historic facilities, creating new music education spaces, and improving existing space to meet modern performance standards. By restoring the original entrance on Mount Vernon Place and renewing the South Terrace, the campus no longer turns its back to the community. The new arcade, designed to be Peabody’s “main street,” creates a central circulation spine and serves as a gathering space for students, faculty, and patrons. A variety of new performance and rehearsal spaces were created from previously underutilized space, including an orchestra rehearsal hall, a 100-seat recital hall, and prefabricated rehearsal rooms. In the adjoining George Peabody Library, QE|A converted the Reading Room into an exhibit space and provided modern engineering systems to protect its collection of 300,000 historical volumes. |
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