The Redesign of the Harmony Atrium
[NYSun] 6/13/06
The plans seem to be quite different, with the Morphosis plan relying heavily on the high-tech digital displays that crop up elsewhere in the Lincoln Center redesign,and the Tod Williams Billie Tsien plan emphasizing more old-fashioned, physical experiences.
Thom Mayne, the founder of Morphosis and winner of the 2005 Pritzker Award - architecture's Nobel Prize - described their plan as being "one smooth, fluid space of movement, part traditional architectural and part information." Curved walls and ceilings would become surfaces for L.E.D., computer, and video displays. "The whole space is basically made up of information," Mr. Mayne said.
Tod Williams Billie Tsien's plan, by contrast, would create a space where a person could sit down for a glass of wine before going to a Lincoln Center performance. Mr. Williams and Ms. Tsien want to build the "world's largest coffee table" - a 20-by-40-foot table made out of the same polished travertine as Lincoln Center's main buildings. Visitors could sit at it (or on it) to have a bite to eat; for live performances, it would become a stage. They also want to create the "world's largest solari board" - the kind of information board, with its distinctive clicking sound, found at train stations. The board would sometimes display Lincoln Center information, sometimes visual designs programmed by artists.
Despite the possibility for computerprogrammed designs, the Tod Williams Billie Tsien plan is decidedly lower-tech than the Morphosis plan. "What draws people to Lincoln Center is the ability to see people physically doing something, whether it's dancing, playing an instrument, or singing," Ms.Tsien said. "Especially in Times Square, there's all these digital crawls and huge images on the side of buildings, and after a while you don't see it anymore. We thought we would make something that's happening physically - a sort of mechanical thing."
The plans seem to be quite different, with the Morphosis plan relying heavily on the high-tech digital displays that crop up elsewhere in the Lincoln Center redesign,and the Tod Williams Billie Tsien plan emphasizing more old-fashioned, physical experiences.
Thom Mayne, the founder of Morphosis and winner of the 2005 Pritzker Award - architecture's Nobel Prize - described their plan as being "one smooth, fluid space of movement, part traditional architectural and part information." Curved walls and ceilings would become surfaces for L.E.D., computer, and video displays. "The whole space is basically made up of information," Mr. Mayne said.
Tod Williams Billie Tsien's plan, by contrast, would create a space where a person could sit down for a glass of wine before going to a Lincoln Center performance. Mr. Williams and Ms. Tsien want to build the "world's largest coffee table" - a 20-by-40-foot table made out of the same polished travertine as Lincoln Center's main buildings. Visitors could sit at it (or on it) to have a bite to eat; for live performances, it would become a stage. They also want to create the "world's largest solari board" - the kind of information board, with its distinctive clicking sound, found at train stations. The board would sometimes display Lincoln Center information, sometimes visual designs programmed by artists.
Despite the possibility for computerprogrammed designs, the Tod Williams Billie Tsien plan is decidedly lower-tech than the Morphosis plan. "What draws people to Lincoln Center is the ability to see people physically doing something, whether it's dancing, playing an instrument, or singing," Ms.Tsien said. "Especially in Times Square, there's all these digital crawls and huge images on the side of buildings, and after a while you don't see it anymore. We thought we would make something that's happening physically - a sort of mechanical thing."
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