Lincoln Heart for the Performing Arts, Inc. (LCPA) has introduced the preliminary design for the Amsterdam Avenue facet of its campus. The area will likely be designed by Hood Design Studio (Panorama Architect), WEISS/MANFREDI Structure/Panorama/Urbanism (Design Architect) and Moody Nolan (Architect of Report).
The venture creates a brand new, world-class out of doors efficiency venue, group park areas, and removes the wall that has separated Lincoln Heart from Amsterdam Avenue—creating new, welcoming entrances alongside the advanced’s west facet. Responding to Lincoln Heart and native communities’ need to take away this wall at Damrosch Park, will probably be changed with a sequence of inviting transition areas from the road into Lincoln Heart’s iconic campus. This extends larger welcome alongside the west of the performing arts heart, whereas making a extra usable and welcoming public park and efficiency venues that higher meet the wants of artists and audiences in the present day.
Key options embody:
A welcoming entrance that dramatically opens up Lincoln Heart’s Amsterdam Avenue face to neighbors approaching from the west.
A group park that includes a garden, water function, tree groves, and backyard for public enjoyment.
A brand new, world-class efficiency venue that can significantly enhance artist and viewers experiences.
The design balances the interventions made to the east facet of Lincoln Heart’s campus greater than a decade in the past, which created extra inviting out of doors areas on the north and east of campus wanted to ship on its founding mission of the humanities for all.
The brand new design incorporates in depth group suggestions from an ongoing participatory course of that started in 2023, which engaged 1000’s of native neighbors, NYCHA residents, group teams, college students, and New Yorkers in discussions about how the western facet of the campus is used and helped form the design.
The $335 million capital marketing campaign to assist the transformation of the west facet of Lincoln Heart’s campus has raised 65% to-date, together with beneficiant assist from the LCPA Board of Administrators, who’ve championed and prioritized this essential work from the start, in addition to a $10 million dedication from the State of New York.
The Stavros Niarchos Basis (SNF) is a Founding Companion of this visionary course of, with a $75 million grant that features their preliminary assist when the venture started and builds upon their assist of free programming all through Summer time for the Metropolis and the continuing Legacies of San Juan Hill initiative.
A lead reward from The Starr Basis supplies invaluable assist, anchoring the venture which aligns with its longstanding assist of the humanities, tradition, and important New York communities.
The Stavros Niarchos Basis (SNF) Lincoln Heart West Initiative continues LCPA’s daring investments within the vibrancy of New York and helps guarantee the humanities are accessible to all—together with the enlargement of free creative packages, the design and implementation of a Select-What-You-Pay ticketing mannequin, the reopening of the redesigned David Geffen Corridor, and work with companions throughout town—cultivating audiences’ sense of belonging by means of engagement with artwork from a spread of cultural traditions. Building is anticipated to start in spring 2026 and to be accomplished by spring 2028.
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