Judging by Diller Scofidio + Renfro's splashy renovations of and additions to New York's Lincoln Center in recent years, it's surprising that Hugh Hardy and his firm, H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, would have added something so discreet to the arts complex. Furthermore, Hardy's sleekly tailored two-story LCT3, which sits atop the existing Vivian Beaumont and Mitzi Newhouse theaters, counters the image of the architect who indelibly forged his career in the 1960s with skewed geometries and brightly colored exposed mechanical ducts. Sure, it's been a while since he founded his own firm in 1962—which became Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer in 1967 and then H3 in 2004. Yet the pop pizzazz that Hardy brought from the start to school, museum, and theater commissions (such as the Playhouse in the Park in Cincinnati, 1968, and the Mt. Healthy School in Columbus, Indiana, 1972) figured prominently in the generational shift away from monotonous corporate Modernism.
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