The New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center unveiled new details of the redesign of the perpetually troubled 1962 David Geffen Hall on March 9, as contractors rush to complete the project for an October 2022 opening.

In an unusual division of labor, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien were brought in to reimagine the hall’s lobby and other public spaces in 2019, joining the Toronto-based architecture firm Diamond Schmitt–designers of concert halls and opera houses in Montreal, Toronto and St. Petersburg, Russia–which was hired in 2015 to renovate the performance space, now coming to life clad in rippling panels of beech wood.