Designed by FXCollaborative with ESI Design, the project invites visitors to consider the meaning behind an iconic symbol of one of the country’s founding concepts.

The new area is part of New York City’s efforts to ease foot traffic at the country’s busiest train station.

The 26,000-square-foot project represents the first new building undertaken by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation since the 1980s.

Built up on a plinth, and clad in relentless swaths of travertine, Lincoln Center was once considered by many to be a remote acropolis of culture.