Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

LINCOLN
CENTER
FOR
THE
PERFORMING
ARTS

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is the premiere performing arts complex in the US and the first worldwide to bring all the arts to one campus. After 50 years of wear and tear since it was conceived by Gordon Bunshaft, Philip Johnson, Eero Saarinen and others, Lincoln Center was in need of both a physical and philosophical update. DS+R’s renovation and redesign reinterprets the modernist genetic code of the existing 16 acre campus into a language that speaks to a diverse audience after several generations of social and political change. The redevelopment project touched virtually all aspects of the campus — its public spaces, the Juilliard School, the 1,100 seat Alice Tully Hall, and the School of American Ballet.

  • Aerial view of original Columbus Avenue entrance
    Aerial view of original Columbus Avenue entrance
  • Aerial view of new Columbus Avenue entrance
    Aerial view of new Columbus Avenue entrance
  • Pietro Belluschi’s 1960's Juilliard School building
    Pietro Belluschi’s 1960's Juilliard School building
  • Expanded and transformed Juilliard School building
    Expanded and transformed Juilliard School building
  • 1960's Alice Tully Hall
    1960's Alice Tully Hall
  • Redesigned Alice Tully Hall
    Redesigned Alice Tully Hall

Public space projects included the design of a new grand entrance to the campus over a submerged access road; a redesigned main plaza and fountain; a bosque and redesigned reflecting pool; a network of smart technologies integrated with traditional building materials to deliver real-time information throughout the campus; the Hypar Pavilion, a twisted grass lawn over a new destination restaurant and screening rooms for the Film Society; the Lincoln Center Pedestrian Bridge, and the conversion of 65th Street from a service roadway into the new “Avenue of the Arts.”

  • Lincoln Center's original three-block frontage at Columbus Avenue
    Lincoln Center's original three-block frontage at Columbus Avenue
  • Transformed Columbus Avenue frontage with Infoscape
    Transformed Columbus Avenue frontage with Infoscape
  • View of original North Plaza before Hypar Pavilion
    View of original North Plaza before Hypar Pavilion
  • View of North Plaza and new Hypar Pavilion with Lincoln Ristorante
    View of North Plaza and new Hypar Pavilion with Lincoln Ristorante
  • View of Lincoln Center Bridge before transformation
    View of Lincoln Center Bridge before transformation
  • View of new Lincoln Center Pedestrian Bridge
    View of new Lincoln Center Pedestrian Bridge
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  • View through submerged drop-off on Columbus Avenue
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Project information
ClientLincoln Center for the Performing ArtsSize (GSF)699999
Location         New York, United States
Milestones
Commission2003South Campus and Josie Robertson Plaza Complete200965th Street and North Plaza Complete2009
Infoscape Complete2010Hypar Pavilion and Lincoln Ristorante Complete2010The Juilliard School Renovation and Expansion Complete2009
Alice Tully Hall Renovation and Expansion Complete2009School of American Ballet Expansion Complete200765th Street Pedestrian Bridge Completed2012
    Photography by Iwan Baan,Nan Melville,Matthew Monteith,and Michael Hundsnurcher