Hall, the Los Angeles Music Center, the Colburn School of Music, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Broad Art Museum. The facility includes seven buildings totaling . The final costs for construction were $171.9 million, and for the entire project $232 million. Architecture The facility was designed by the project team of HMC Architects (Architect-of-Record) and the Austrian firm Coop Himmelb(l)au (Designer-of-Record). They were selected through a design competition in September 2002. In 2006, ground was broken on the school. The design has been controversial, with the school described as "bold", "unconventional", its forms "stunning" and "a testament to the provocative power of art;" its interior spaces as having "a surprisingly rich range of personalities", "prosaic," "almost barracks-like;" its classrooms as "confined and airless," and the cafeteria as "cave-like." The school's most iconic form, a tower over the performing arts building, is a unique and highly visible sculptural form, intended to provide a point of identification and a symbol for the arts in the city. It was envisioned to be a public space accessed via the ramp that winds around the tower with a viewing platform on top. School officials objected, and so it remains inaccessible and a non-functional sculptural form. An excerpt from Hawthorne's "Starchitecture High" states: "What…the school has taught [its students] about the architecture is not so much what they like and dislike about the design, or about what works and what doesn't, but rather the surprising and ultimately thrilling ways in which their high school campus reminds them of themselves and their peers. Like them it is something of a proud outcast: gangly, dreamy, and beautiful at the same time, trying to make its way in a culture that prizes familiarity over strangeness and sameness over individuality. For a teenager who dreams of becoming an artist or a dancer, and has maybe not always found that ambition popular or easily understood by others in his family or neighborhood, what kind of campus could be better?" The campus has seven buildings, an outdoor swimming pool, and a full-sized athletic playfield. Administration Building #1 includes the main entry and administration offices as well as the Dance Academy. Library Building #2 is a cone-shaped building that incorporates the library. Theatre and Visual Arts Building #3 includes the Visual Arts Academy and the Theatre Academy. Theatre/concert hall Building #4 includes a 927-seat performing arts theater used for assemblies, plays,