Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts | Favorite Architecture

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (simply known as Lincoln Center) is a 16.3-acre (6.6-hectare) complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It hosts many notable performing arts organizations, which are nationally and internationally renowned, including the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Ballet and the New York City Opera,More info:wiki

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On May 1, 2000, the New York State Office of Historic Preservation (SHPO) issued an official determination that Lincoln Center is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, in response to a comprehensive, professional report prepared by LW! proving its exceptional significance as the nation’s original cultural center. Now, Lincoln Center has enlisted architects Diller, Scofidio + Renfro to renovate the campus’ public spaces and alter the Juilliard School building (Pietro Belluschi, 1969).

Alterations to “eligible” properties must be reviewed by the SHPO under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1964, which provides some measure of protection against unsympathetic renovations if state or federal funds are used. Lincoln Center claims that no such funds will be applied to the current phase of the project, which impacts Juilliard, West 65th Street, and Plaza North. Since Spring 2003, LW! has met several times with Lincoln Center President Reynold Levy, Chairman Bruce Crawford, and members of the design team to discuss preservation issues raised by the proposed scheme. On April 28, 2004, we wrote a letter to Lincoln Center President Reynold Levy in response to conceptual plans developed by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro. In January 2005, after the project commenced the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) to win approvals for a series of special permits, LW! received a follow-up briefing.

#7       Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Redevelopment Project,More info:area-arch

The Lincoln Center Redevelopment Project is one of the most important urban, civic transformations in New York City’s recent history. To preserve its cultural status and avoid obsolescence, Lincoln Center required a thorough overhaul – a project that took over a decade, USD $1.2 Billion, and an extensive stakeholder engagement that included the independent constituent organizations of Lincoln Center and warranted the creation of the City’s first Task Force.

A half century after its construction, the performing arts campus, designed by prominent modernist architects, was physically crumbling and in need of facility expansions and upgrades to accommodate new artistic and audience requirements throughout the campus, as well as safety and energy standards. Lincoln Center also had to make good on the “publicness” of its public spaces, a quality missing since its inception.

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Lincoln Center is the world’s leading performing arts centre. Located on 16.3 acres in New York City, the complex comprises 12 Resident Organisations, including the Metropolitan Opera, the New York Philharmonic, New York City Ballet, New York City Opera and the Juilliard School.

The expansion and renovation of the Center’s Julliard School and Alice Tully Hall focuses on the existing concert hall, music school and associated smaller halls and rehearsal spaces. The project adds approximately 150,000ft² of new spaces to the existing building and upgrades interior finishes, building services and life safety systems. This project is the flagship of the ongoing major redevelopment of Lincoln Center.

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Whether you’re interested in theater, opera, dance, music or film, few names are as synonymous with high culture as Lincoln Center. Originally built in the late ‘50s with financial backing from John D. Rockefeller III, the 16-acre complex, made up of 30 separate venues, is a dream for performance art lovers. On any given night visitors sitting by the Josie Robertson Plaza enjoying the glowing lights of the fountain might see Metropolitan Opera patrons in full gowns, classical musicians with instruments on their backs and young children pirouetting, inspired by the latest from the New York City Ballet. In recent years the Lincoln Center Theater’s Broadway productions have included Tony Award-winning revivals of golden-age favorites like The King and I and South Pacific, while Film Society Lincoln Center remains a favorite among film buffs for its selection of small, but powerful indie and foreign films. If you’ve always wanted to know more about the design, acoustics, and the internationally renowned performers, take a guided tour ($20, students $18). And if you’re young and hoping you’ll one day tread upon those storied boards, then the Juilliard School, also at Lincoln Center, is a good bet for training, but be forewarned the conservatory has one of the lowest college acceptance rates in the country–but ticket prices to their phenomenal performances are very attainable (average price $20)

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