Notes of Interest
The redesign of Alice Tully Hall transforms the venue from a good multi-purpose hall into a premiere chamber music venue with street identity and upgraded functionality for all performance needs. The sloped underside of Juilliard's expansion serves as a canopy framing the hall, its expanded lobby, and box office; the opaque base of Pietro Belluschi's building is stripped away to reveal the hall's outer shell and a shear one-way cable net glass façade puts the hall on display.
Illumination emerges from the wood skin of the hall much the way a bioluminescent marine organism exudes an internal glow. A percentage of wood liner is constructed of translucent custom-molded resin panels surfaced in veneer to match and blend seamlessly with the wood, binding the house and stage with light. Like raising a chandelier signaling the start of the performance, the blush will be part of the choreography.
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JURY COMMENTS
Alice Tully Hall shows a
new way to add to a modern
building, extending and
transforming its
architectural language.
This project takes an
introverted anti-urban
building and engages it with
the city, bringing a sense of
performance and theater
right out to the sidewalk.
With its heightened
theatricality, as well as its
intimacy and warmth, this
renovation provides a clear,
strong, independent and
forward thinking identity for
Alice Tully Hall, making it a
premier venue at Lincoln
Center.
2010 INSTITUTE HONOR AWARDS FOR ARCHITECTURE JURY
Richard L. Maimon, AIA (Chair)
KieranTimberlake
Philadelphia
Jeanne Gang, FAI
Studio/Gang Architects
Chicago
Sam Grawe
Dwell /At Home in the Modern World Magazines
San Francisco
Jeffrey Lee, FAIA
Pearce Brinkley Cease & Lee P.A.
Raleigh
Justine N. Lewis
AIAS Representative
Atlanta
Miguel A. Rivera Agosto, AIA
Miró Rivera Architects
Austin
Mark Simon, FAIA
Centerbrook Architects & Planners
Centerbrook, Connecticut
H. Ruth Todd, AIA
Page & Turnbull Architects
San Francisco
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