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Lincoln Center's "Illumination Lawn" Opens
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Jen Chung
Published May 21, 2010
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Today, Lincoln Center opened up its Illumination Lawn, as part of its renovations by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The lawn, which is near West 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam, replaces a footbridge that used to connect Lincoln Center with Juilliard and the Walter Reade Theatre and underneath the lawn will be the future site of a restaurant. The NY Times' architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff calls the lawn "the project’s most dazzling space, [it] warps up on two sides, so that climbing it can make you feel as if you were about to float off into the air on a carpet of green."
Other components of the renovated Lincoln Cener include Alice Tully Hall and the beloved fountain. And fun fact: Lincoln Center and the city are negotiating over liability for future slip-and-falls.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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