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“We envision Harmony Atrium as an innovative, dynamic and interdisciplinary arts-oriented public space that reflects and exposes the delirious richness of Lincoln Center and New York City. Lincoln Center, with its eleven resident organizations, is a signature New York destination and a powerful cultural asset that significantly impacts the life and identity of the city and its citizens. New York City, characterized by its poetic density, its uniqueness, and its desirability, is one of the world’s great cities and attractions.

Conceived as both gateway and destination, we imagine Harmony Atrium as a cultural and artistic sanctuary that provides respite from the surrounding urban environment while simultaneously inviting visitors to discover a richly laden, engaging and informative interface that introduces them to the diverse offerings of Lincoln Center. We will endeavor to create a truly accessible and immersive space that provides a unique and memorable visitor experience—one that resonates and extends beyond the bounds of Harmony Atrium itself and one that compels visitors to return to both the Atrium and the greater Lincoln Center campus to participate in its program and performances. Ours will be an integrative approach that transforms this underutilized privately owned public space into a creative and inviting portal to Lincoln Center; It will not only attract and serve established Lincoln Center patrons but will serve as a catalyst for broadening Lincoln Center ’s exposure and expanding its audience into more diverse constituencies including the sophisticated younger demographic that Lincoln Center seeks to engage.

As illustrated in our conceptual sketches, our team has begun to explore alternative visions for an innovative 21st century environment that elegantly weaves architecture and technology together into a multi-layered, three-dimensional organization that emphasizes connectivity, fluidity and the symbiotic interaction between building, technology, information, performance and program. Iconic and bold architectural forms will provide an elastic armature for display of Lincoln Center ’s rich offerings. While singular and continuous in expression, a variety of seamlessly integrated, dynamic and interactive media installations will be both evocative and informative. Surfaces and forms will transform into interfaces that invite visitors to discretely engage with and learn about the unique offerings of each of the eleven constituent organizations. The Atrium’s series of contracting and expanding spaces and surfaces will provide a flexible backdrop accommodating a variety of performances as well as the constantly evolving activities that will occur simultaneously and separately, formally and informally, in large and small gatherings of artists, visitors, audience and staff. Transformed into a truly 21st century civic amenity, Harmony Atrium will create a new identity for Lincoln Center. It will become a beacon that draws visitors and that symbolically asserts Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts as an enriching and integral part of the cultural and intellectual life and fabric of city.”

Project Team:

Architect: Morphosis. Principal and Lead Designer: Thom Mayne, Senior Designer: Chandler Ahrens. Project Manager: Silvia Kuhle. Design | Media Art consultants: Rebeca Méndez Design. Principal and Lead Designer and Media Artist: Rebeca Méndez. Senior Media Artists: Aaron Koblin and Krister Olsson. Project Manager: Adam Eeuwens. Junior Designer and Production: Roxane Zargham. Design and Media Production: Trollbäck & Company. Theater Consultant: Auerback Friedlander Pollack. Acoustic Engineer: Jaffe Holden Acoustics. Architectural Lighting: L’Observatoire International. Structural Engineer: Dewhurst Macfarlane & Partners.