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Welcome to my site about Lincoln Center. I can, and hopefully will, write pages and pages about Lincoln Center. I love the place, and I want this to be an evolving work. I especially intend to cover the upcoming renovations, as they unfold.
In the spirit of full disclosure, I work for one of Lincoln Center's resident companies (The Metropolitan Opera), but this website is personal, and the views expressed are my own. They have no connection with any of my employers, past present or future. I began the photography part of this project years before I began working there, and have collected books and articles for longer than that.
Philharmonic Hall (renamed Avery Fisher Hall)
Sept 23 1962.Max Abramovitz.
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Plaza Fountain
April 6, 1964Philip Johnson
New York State Theatre
April 23, 1964Philip Johnson
Vivian Beaumont Theatre
October 14, 1965Eero Saarinen
"Like jumping into an empty swimming pool"
Library & Museum of the Performing Arts
November 30, 1965Gordon Bunshaft (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)
Metropolitan Opera House
September 16, 1966Wallace K. Harrison
Guggenheim Bandshell
May 22, 1969Eggers & Higgins
Presiding over a concrete park, a concrete arch. Pretty, but wasteful and awful, I'm afraid. Hopefully this area will be next to be renovated. The location and geometry of "Damrosch Park" was forced on the original planners by that master of terrible ideas, Robert Moses. His requirements for the park severely limited the msater plan, and his attitude is to blame for the inhospitible concrete "park" that ruins a perfectly good 1/2 block of the Upper West Side. Moses would probably like the place, the bastard.
Alice Tully Hall
September 11 1969Julliard School
October 26, 1969> Pietro BelluschiPrismatic and brutalist, simutaneously. This building will get a makeover in 2006, plans show a sensitive renovation.
Rose Building
November 19, 1990Lew Davis, Davis Brody & Associates
Milstein Plaza
This is a concrete bridge over 65th St. Another winner of an idea from Robert Moses. He added it to the master plans in 1958. The project was designed in 64-65 by Harrison & Abramovitz, and renovated once in the mid 80s. This abomination to urban planning will be the first thing to go in the upcoming renovation. I can't wait.
North Plaza
Bibliography:
Prentice-Hall Inc.
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. 1971.
ISBN: 0-13-536748-4
External Links:
Lincoln Center Inc.
Resident Companies at Lincoln Center
The Metropolitan Opera
New York City Opera
New York City Ballet
New York Philharmonic
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center Theatre
The Julliard School
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Jazz at Lincoln Center
School of American Ballet
Lincoln Center Renovations:
Google Caches of
Reuters Article at CNN.com
NY Times Article at Ticketing Association
29 April 2004
© 2004 Paul Masck