The principal academic building for the Harvard Music Department, the hall contains classrooms, seminar rooms, faculty offices, practice spaces, administration offices and the 437-seat Concert Hall built in 1914. This project includes the classroom and faculty office renovation, new practice room installation and building mechanical systems improvements and air conditioning for Paine Concert Hall, originally renovated by RO+A in 1990. The project optimized the use of the building for teaching, performing and practicing music.