Renzo Piano Building Workshop, S.r.l.

Lenfest Center For The Arts

Lenfest Center For The Arts
© Nic Lehoux - Courtesy RPBW
Lenfest Center For The Arts
© Nic Lehoux - Courtesy RPBW

Lenfest Center for the Arts

Renzo Piano Building Workshop

COLLOBORATE
Davis Brody Bond Llp(New York)

CLIENT
Columbia University

PHOTOGRAPHY
Nic Lehoux - Courtesy RPBW (11), Renzo Piano Building Workshop (6)

YEAR
2017

LOCATION
New York, NY, United States

TYPE
Cultural › Cultural Center Educational › University

LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS NEW YORK ,USA

Renzo Piano Building Workshop designed the eight-story, 60,000-square-foot structure with Davis Brody Bond, LLP, as executive architect and Body Lawson Associates, a Harlem-based certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), as associate architect—the same team that designed the Jerome L. Greene Science Center.

Lenfest Center For The Arts
© Nic Lehoux - Courtesy RPBW
Lenfest Center For The Arts
© Nic Lehoux - Courtesy RPBW

The design team utilized innovative structural techniques to achieve high ceilings and large open spaces uninterrupted by columns—critical elements for a performing arts center that cannot be attained with standard I-steel beams.

Windows in some of the venues allow for flexibility in controlling natural light, including a skylight on the ceiling of the 8th floor’s flexible presentation space, which features custom lighting and motorized shade tracks.

Lenfest Center For The Arts
© Nic Lehoux - Courtesy RPBW
Lenfest Center For The Arts
© Nic Lehoux - Courtesy RPBW
Lenfest Center For The Arts
© Nic Lehoux - Courtesy RPBW

The Lenfest Center for the Arts stands prominently behind the “Small Square” public plaza on West 125th Street between Broadway and 12th Avenue, just west of Columbia’s Jerome L. Greene Science Center.


Lenfest Center For The Arts
© Nic Lehoux - Courtesy RPBW
Lenfest Center For The Arts
© Nic Lehoux - Courtesy RPBW
Lenfest Center For The Arts
© Nic Lehoux - Courtesy RPBW


Lenfest Center For The Arts
© Nic Lehoux - Courtesy RPBW
Lenfest Center For The Arts
© Nic Lehoux - Courtesy RPBW
Lenfest Center For The Arts
© Nic Lehoux - Courtesy RPBW


Lenfest Center For The Arts
Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Lenfest Center For The Arts
Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Lenfest Center For The Arts
Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Lenfest Center For The Arts
Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Lenfest Center For The Arts
Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Lenfest Center For The Arts
Renzo Piano Building Workshop

Renzo Piano Building Workshop, S.r.l.
T +39 010 61711
Renzo Piano Building Workshop, S.r.l.
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