A Look at Oberlin’s Next Performance Venue
Birenbaum Space intended to unite campus and community.
August 24, 2016
Julie Gulenko '15
![construction blueprint.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_760/public/content/news/image/birenbaum_blueprint.png?itok=HjG2WuUX)
Upon the completion of the gleaming new Hotel at Oberlin this summer, construction began underground for the conservatory’s latest venue: the William and Helen Birenbaum Innovation and Performance Space. A meeting and teaching space, a jazz club, and an intimate concert hall in one, the subterranean facility was designed to link the creative energies of the conservatory, college, and community. Take a look at the aerial blueprint of the sleek space and progress photos taken on August 12, 2016.
Photos by Julie Gulenko '15.
![interior of Birenbaum under construction.](/sites/default/files/content/conservatory/images/birenbaum6.jpg)
![interior construction of Birenbaum Space.](/sites/default/files/content/conservatory/images/birenbaum5.jpg)
![interior construction.](/sites/default/files/content/conservatory/images/birenbaum4.png)
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![interior construction.](/sites/default/files/content/conservatory/images/birenbaum2.jpg)
![interior construction.](/sites/default/files/content/conservatory/images/birenbaum1.jpg)
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