There are few Manhattan locations as codified as the Lincoln Center, a monolithic collection of modernist slabs housing 12 of the city's most celebrated opera, theatre, chamber music, and orchestra companies. Oh, and the Juilliard School, a storied and beloved icon; a symbol of elite and profoundly competitive education for starry-eyed performers around the world. Until recently, though, the facade has been as inaccessible as the program, the physical entry as difficult as the educational.
Diller Scofidio and Renfro are breaking the door down – literally. The architecture firm is expanding the existing building out into an open triangle formed by the sweep of Broadway, and replacing the Brutalist 1950s front with a double-layered glass slice of a facade and a sloped cantilever of a roof.
The move connects the building with the street, performers with the audience, and current students with prospective. And it's not the only change. Embracing the spectacle of performance and turning New York's tradition of street-side gawking into a prescribed decision, the architects are introducing a sloped hyperbolic lawn over the North Plaza, turning the cool stage set of Alice Tully Hall into a glowing cocoon, and engaging in, as Liz Diller says, 'an architectural striptease.' It might not have been a theatrical quick-change, but it'll be a welcome one.
By Eva Hagberg
@Source: http://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/lincoln-center-ny/2495
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