The project mediates between a vast expanse of asphalt to the East and the internalized white volumes of Yamasaki’s neo-gothic modernism to the West. Consequently the building brackets a landscape that serves both the college and community creating a one-eighth mile long axis extending south from Tappan Square, the historic center of Town. This axis becomes an entry plaza, drawing activity to the center of the building where it splits, continuing south or ascending the building as a series of steps and terraces leading to third floor roof gardens. Multi-story lobbies to either side of the plaza provide vertical access to all four levels. Below the plaza are student lockers and a public way, allowing the controlled movement of instruments from basement storage and archives to all points in the complex. Above is the Sky Bar, serving as the new social hub for the Conservatory and College. Together, this sequence of spaces offer a circulation loop around the new urban entry highlighted variably by gardens, borrowed views and intellectual loitering. The landscape, like the building, challenges notions of prescriptive use. Changes in level, material, and scale occur in, on, and around the building and can be seen as sculpture, function as seating, or be appropriated as performance venues.