Some 450 University of Iowa music students will score big this fall when the new, state-of-the-art Voxman Music Building opens.
Did you know?
The School of Music’s home is named for the late clarinetist Himie Voxman, a UI graduate and longtime music educator who served as the school’s director from 1954 to 1980. He taught hundreds of students, advised more than 40 doctoral students, and published what are considered the standard texts for wind musicians.
The 189,000-square-foot facility, which is centrally located in downtown Iowa City, will reunite under one roof the School of Music, which has utilized several interim facilities across campus and Iowa City since floodwaters irreparably damaged its previous home along the Iowa River in 2008.
The new space—designed by LMN Architects and Neumann Monson PC, with construction management provided by Mortenson Construction—includes classrooms, teaching studios, a library, offices, recital spaces, a rooftop terrace, and a 700-seat recital hall (replacing the flooded Clapp Recital Hall). Its rehearsal rooms and recital halls feature elements that isolate sound and enhance acoustics.
Check out this construction webcam.
