Charles Renfro, Mark Holden, Peter Rosenbaum
Introduced by Reynold Levy
Thursday, February 19, 2009
5:00 p.m.
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
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Charles Renfro, principal of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, will lead a tour of the newly redesigned Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. Mark Holden, principal of JaffeHolden Acoustics, and Peter Rosenbaum of Fischer Dachs Theater Designers, will provide additional commentary. Reynold Levy, President of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, will introduce the program.

Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s redesign in collaboration with FXFowle strips away the opaque base of Pietro Belluschi’s original building, revealing the hall’s outer shell. The sloped underside of Juilliard’s expansion serves as a canopy framing the hall, its expanded lobby, and box office.  A sheer one-way cable net glass façade puts the façade on display.  A commonly held opinion about the hall interior is that it lacked intimacy, both acoustically and visually.  A partial box-in box construction isolated the hall from the vibration of the 7th Avenue subway and a new high performance inner liner is acoustically engineered to distribute sound evenly throughout the house.  The inner of African moabi is tailored around all existing hall features and new programmatic elements, eliminating all visual noise that distracts the audience from the performance.

Photographs: Iwan Baan