Music & Dance Building/ General Administration Building

This centre for fine arts education offers advanced teaching,
exhibition and performance facilities within two new buildings within York University. The project facilities houses the Faculty for Fine Arts departments for Music, Dance and Theatre, the York University Art Gallery and the Department of Visual Arts' new student-run art gallery.

The program includes state-of-the-art classrooms ranging from 30- to 500-seat capacity, a 325-seat recital hall, a 325-seat proscenum theatre, a 500-seat cinema and a 80-seat screening room, a performance halls lobby, specialized dance and music studios.

Zeidler Partnership Architects and B+H Architects as joint-venture architects led the design team using an innovative fast-track design-build process with PCL Constructors inc. leading the construction team. The Accolade Project received a Bronze citation in the 2006 Design Exchange Award's Interior Design - Commercial category, and an Honourable Mention in the 2006 Canadian Design Build Institute Design Build Award of Excellence.