The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center, which will be located on the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan, is clad in translucent marble resembling Rorschach blot patterns.
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The centre calls for three theatres that could be reconfigured for works of dance, opera, music and theatre. The Times shortened the name to “The Perelman Center”, so maybe that’s what it’s hoping to go by…?
UPDATE: Curbed has much more on the design, including this: “Not much in the building will be fixed in place, least of which will be the configuration of its theaters”.
The center, at the corner of Fulton and Greenwich streets, will be constructed from a translucent marble, laminated with glass, giving it an opaque look during the day, but will glow at night with the internal light from performances.
A previous design, by the architect Frank Gehry, was shelved in 2014.
The rooms and halls will have moveable walls able capable of creating up to 11 configurations, the largest of which will hold up to 1,200 people.
The center will be called the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center and is scheduled to open in early 2020.
Maggie Boepple, president and director of the venue, said the space would be both a “birthplace” for new shows and a local community centre.
The 90,000-square foot building will have three auditoriums and will host the annual Tribeca Film Festival.
It was announced in June that Perelman, CEO of business holding company MacAndrews & Forbes, would be donating $75 million in order to jumpstart construction on the project. The federal Housing and Urban Development Authority has already contributed $99 million.
Board members have not yet determined which productions will be staged.
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