The new 11,000 square feet eatery at Lincoln Center is designed to compliment the artistic culture of the campus. Designed in a pavilion-style form by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Lincoln is spread over two levels – one sub-level and one street-level – within the 65th Street location at Hearst Plaza.
The architects conceived Lincoln as an elegant glass-enclosed pavilion, overlooking the reflecting pool, Henry Moore sculpture and a grove of trees on one side and Avery Fisher Hall on the other, across from the Metropolitan Opera House. Architect Liz Diller worked closely with Nick Valenti to create the unique design for the multi-level space, which features various dining areas, an outdoor terrace and a central open chef’s kitchen. The restaurant is distinct for a 7,200 square feet grass roof, open to the public and shaped in a hyperbolic paraboloid.
Glass walls and open floor plan are intended to offer diners with a 360-degree, panoramic view of the centre’s public spaces and buildings, including the new ‘Avenue of the Arts,’ in each of Lincoln’s three dining rooms.
Interior of Lincoln features travertine carpet in colours and textures to compliment the surrounding buildings. The restaurant features Azul Ataija stone tiles in cascading patterns. Lighting through uplights and other recessed fixtures creates an obscure glow throughout, suitable for an eatery.
The space wears a light-weight, floating appearance thanks to the use of damask-upholstered, sapphire-hued seating; oak wood tables; maple-hued banquettes, and other furniture pieces. The eatery also features crème-coloured leather barstools and chairs, custom-designed by German manufacturer More.
The lawn roof at street level, above the restaurant, offers an exterior pedestrian landscape. It offers unique ceiling heights throughout the interior, highlighted within by a seamless, mahogany veneer over resin-based wood. This design idea has been adopted out of the desire to design a destination restaurant without consuming public space on the Lincoln Center campus. The green roof has been designed as a new kind of interface between public and private. The twisted plane of lawn acts as an occupied green canopy over the glass pavilion restaurant.
Lincoln Center is home to thousands of opera, dance, music, film and theatre performances presented each year.
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