Lehman College
Multimedia Center

 

Carman Hall – B-Level
FxFowle Architects

Lehman College’s high-tech Multimedia Center is situated on two levels beneath the plaza of Carman Hall—the primary classroom building on campus. It was designed by FxFowle Architects as a state of the art multipurpose, cross-discipline facility for the education and training of future journalists, digital media producers, broadcasters and audiovisual creators. A leading, all-digital tapeless facility at CUNY, the Center is recognized within the region and actively used by students, faculty, and commercial ventures with production and post production needs.

The Center offers cross-platform equipment for television production, news writing and digital animation projects; and provides an opportunity to experiment with the latest tools. Facilities include: media-rich classrooms, a digital newsroom used by students to create a community newspaper; editing suites used in sound, graphic and audio programs; graphic workstations for creating digital art; a music recording control room, and an isolation booth for overdubbing. The Center houses its own computer servers, as well as conference rooms, staff offices and other comfortable spaces to accommodate those being recorded.

The Multimedia Center bisects the basement level of Carman Hall. One enters through the building’s perimeter corridors from either College Walk or Goulden Avenue. Daylight streams down on the Center’s two levels, accessible by either a central staircase or elevator. Extensive use of steel and glass in the Center creates a modernistic, sleek, open look. This is complemented by artist Nade Haley’s installation Outside In featuring a wall of digitally enhanced, naturalistic images encased in translucent glass.    

 

Janet Butler Munch