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Fixing Lincoln Center: Step No. 1

By Richard Pyle

Associated Press; NY Times

April 14, 2004

NEW YORK -- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has outlined plans to transform a nondescript Manhattan side street into a pedestrian friendly space and make the cultural complex more accessible to theatergoers, music lovers, film buffs, and people-watchers.

Instead of parking garage entrances and "opaque walls" that give no hint of what goes on inside, the long block of West 65th Street off Broadway will become a glassed-in "front door" for the Juilliard School of Music and a host of other performance facilities, officials said.

At a news conference Tuesday, architect Elizabeth Diller used computer animation to give observers an unnervingly realistic virtual tour of what the site will look like when the $325 million project is completed, and what she called an "architectural striptease" to show how the blank travertine walls of the venerable Alice Tully concert hall will be removed and replaced with transparent glass façades.

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Lincoln Center unveils $325m redesign plans April 15 2004

Designs for the transformation of the Lincoln Centre and West 65th Street have been unveiled by the New York performing arts centre.

The $325m project, designed by architect firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, will see the renovation and expansion of several of the complex?s facilities, including a 30,000 square foot expansion of the Julliard School and a redesign of the Alice Tully Hall. The Lincoln Center Theater and The Film Society of Lincoln Center will also be improved.

Lincoln Center?s ?Street of the Arts? initiative will span West 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue and is the first in a series of independent, but related, building projects planned for the next decade.

In addition to offering improved access and facilities, the redesigned West 65th Street and adjoining public spaces on both street and plaza levels will offer a more welcoming space than the current windswept plaza.

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