Lincoln Center

[14] In March 2006, the center launched construction on a major redevelopment plan that modernized, renovated, and opened up its campus.

[17] When first announced in 1999, Lincoln Center's campus-wide redevelopment was to cost $1.5 billion over 10 years and radically transform the campus.

[27] The center management held an architectural competition, won by the British architect Norman Foster in 2005, but did not approve a full scale redesign until 2012, in part because of the need to raise $300 million in construction costs and the New York Philharmonic's fear that it might lose audiences and revenue while it was displaced.

[28][29] Among the architects that have been involved were Frank Gehry; Cooper, Robertson & Partners; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Beyer Blinder Belle; Fox & Fowle; Olin Partnership; and Diller & Scofidio.

[30] In March 2006, the center launched the 65th Street Project – part of a major redevelopment plan continuing through the fall of 2012 – to create a new pedestrian promenade designed to improve accessibility and the aesthetics of that area of the campus.

Topped by a sloping lawn roof, the film center is part of a new pavilion that also houses a destination restaurant named Lincoln, as well as offices.

Subsequent projects were added which addressed improvements to the main plazas and Columbus Avenue Grand Stairs.

[55][needs update] Lincoln Center Cultural Innovation Fund is the first of its kind as a grant program that seeks to make the arts accessible to all people, focusing on those who live in some of New York City's poorest neighborhoods.

David Geffen Hall , home of the New York Philharmonic in Lincoln Center
The David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, home of the New York City Ballet
Alice Tully Hall, home of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Auditorium of the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Interior of the David Geffen Hall before a concert by the New York Philharmonic
Interior of the David H. Koch Theater
Interior of the Rose Theater
Adrienne Arsht Stage, inside Alice Tully Hall. [ 53 ]