This is a proposed design for the new Royal Academy of Music in East London. It shows the same level of functionality as a used tube of toothpaste.
But why stop there? This is the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
This is the Paris Conservatoire.
And ugliest of all, Juilliard.
I guess you don’t go to music school to learn about beauty.
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