Lincoln Center has always had expensive taste. It spent more than $1 billion on a series of renovations by Diller Scofido + Renfro, while leaving two of its largest buildings (the opera house and concert hall) untouched. Now it plans to spend $500 million to renovate the interior of David Geffen Hall (known as Avery Fisher Hall until September, when David Geffen made a $100 million gift). By comparison, the budget for the Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center, a ground-up building, is estimated at $200 million.
Some of Lincoln Center’s $500 million will go Diamond Schmitt Architects, a Toronto firm that has designed some 40 theaters, and Heatherwick Studio, run by the London polymath Thomas Heatherwick. And some will go to a local architect, yet to be named.
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