Page 8 - APAP Inside Arts - Spring 2020

VO!CE
HALL
TOGETHER
NOW
Lincoln Center and the New York Philharmonic team up to reenvision performance space.
AFTER SEVERAL YEARS OF STOPS AND STARTS, plans for the reimagined David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center are moving forward with a design focused on intimacy and community. Leaders from Lincoln Center and the New York Philharmonic have joined forces and resources in an initiative they’re calling Working In Concert.
“We have three goals: To create one of the world’s finest concert halls, dynamic community spaces, and a building that connects in innovative and bold ways with our outside world,” Lincoln Center president and CEO Henry Timms and New York Philharmonic president and CEO Deborah Borda
With those goals in mind, Diamond Schmitt Architects
will design the concert hall, while Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners will design the public spaces. They join acoustician Paul Scarbrough of Akustiks and theater designer Joshua Dachs of Fisher Dachs Associates. The new hall is slated to open in March 2024, with two short closures for construction, during which the New York Philharmonic will play in other venues in the city.
David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center
said in a joint statement. “David Geffen Hall will now sound and feel intimate and connected. We are moving the stage forward, wrapping the audience around the orchestra, reducing the number of seats and improving sightlines in every part
of the hall. The environment will
be vibrant, warm and welcoming – with terrific acoustics. One of our big priorities for this project is a true sense of community. The concert hall will bring everyone closer to the music, but people also want to feel closer to one another.”
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