Two performing arts facilities increase New York’s cultural cachet
The ultimate public component for the rebuilding of the World Commerce Heart complicated in New York Metropolis is a performing arts middle that’s anticipated to open subsequent September. That month will even mark the one-year anniversary of the opening of an adaptive reuse which transformed what as soon as was a greenhouse in Tarrytown, N.Y., into a versatile, 8,000-sf efficiency and rehearsal house, artists’ gallery and studio.
The structure agency REX, working in collaboration with govt architect Davis Brody Bond, theater marketing consultant Charcoalblue, and Threshold Acoustics, designed the eight-story, 138-foot-tall Perelman Performing Arts Heart, situated in decrease Manhattan. The 129,000-sf cube-shaped PAC will present new areas for theater, dance, music, chamber opera, movie, and media occasions.
Its three theaters—the John A. Zuccotti Theater, that may accommodate 450 seats; the Mike Nichols Theater, with a 250-seat capability; and the Doris Duke Theater, which might have as much as 99 seats—may be adjusted or mixed into 10 totally different configurations.
The PAC can be adjoining to the World Commerce Heart Oculus and Transportation Hub. As a result of it’s being constructed over an present subway and rail complicated, the venture’s structural engineer Magnusson Klemencic Associates devised a system that will assist that constructing’s mass, consisting of seven mega columns via the present infrastructure that maintain aloft a belt-truss construction inside which the PAC’s auditoria “float.”
The constructing’s exterior is wrapped with practically 5,000 5×3-ft marble panels from Portugal, every weighing 295 lbs. (Entrance is the façade marketing consultant.) Inside, the PAC is organized into three ranges: a public stage accessible by grand staircase or elevator that encompasses the foyer concourse and stage; an “artists” stage with dressing rooms, inexperienced rooms, and wardrobe areas; and a “play” stage for the three theaters and rehearsal house.
Rockwell Group designed the constructing’s foyer and restaurant idea restaurant. The venture’s estimated value is $500 million. Its constructing workforce consists of Sciame (CM), ARUP (circulation marketing consultant), Atelier Ten (sustainability marketing consultant), and Wilson Ihrig (noise and vibration marketing consultant)
From greenhouse to inexperienced performing arts middle
Pocantico Heart, the 216-acre former Rockefeller household property in Tarrytown, housed John D. Rockefeller’s historic Orangerie, an orange tree greenhouse with 26-ft-high ceilings, that was opened in 1906.
The Orangerie had lengthy been dormant when the Rockefeller Brothers Fund employed the structure agency FXCollaborative to rehabilitate the constructing right into a multidisciplinary arts middle that will even be a mannequin for sustainable design, and inclusion.
This adaptive reuse, now referred to as the David Rockefeller Inventive Arts Heart, “is rooted in supporting the artistic course of throughout inventive disciplines,” mentioned Brandon Massey, AIA, LEED GA, Senior Affiliate at FXCollaborative, in a ready assertion. This renovation, at a price of $26 million, was accomplished throughout the pointers of the Nationwide Belief for Historic Preservation. (Li Salzman Architects was the venture’s historic preservation marketing consultant.)
The reno added concrete slab flooring and sectioned off totally different areas of the constructing’s inside for particular efficiency or set up areas. The constructing workforce added stage and rehearsal studios that may pivot 90 levels. Additionally added have been 40-ft-wide doorways at the back of the constructing.
The design and development aspired the constructing to attain net-zero power efficiency and LEED Platinum certification. The constructing’s inexperienced options embrace power environment friendly home windows, photo voltaic panels, and rainwater recapture.
The constructing workforce on this venture included York Building Corp (CM), Silman Structural Engineers (SE), Langan Engineering (CE), Altieri Sebor Wieber (MEP/FP), and Envoie Tasks (proprietor’s rep.).
