Juilliard School, The Lincoln Centre

The near 100,000 sq ft expansion and renovation restores some of the building’s lost architectural characteristics whilst positioning this dance, drama and music area for the future. Features of the renovation include an entrance lobby and box office, a black box theatre, an orchestra rehearsing space and recording studio, jazz studios, a large dance rehearsal studio, a library expansion, an archive for rare music manuscripts, plus several smaller studios, rehearsal rooms, classrooms, administrative offices, lounges and teaching studios. Many of those areas are located in the more than 38,000 sq ft expansion of the original Juilliard building into an open triangular site toward Broadway. Two interior courtyards also were enclosed and have become useable interior. The Juilliard School has 800+ full-time undergraduate and graduate college students in dance, drama and music, as well as 900 adult evening students each semester. In addition, approximately 350 music students age 8 – 18 study at Juilliard on Saturdays. The school presents more than 700 performances each school year in its own five halls, as well as elsewhere throughout New York City.  

Located in such a prominent area of New York, it was constructed in view of thousands of passers by and with students taking part in lessons on a daily basis, it was essential that the installation was highly co-ordinated, contained and that the final result was aesthetically pleasing. 

Mike Awad, project manager from W&W Glass, said: “The project had a complicated geometry with an intricate structural steel system. W&W Glass and Pilkington were brought in early in the project programme to assist in the design, not only to help meet the demanding aesthetic needs of the architecture team, but to also aid the structural engineers by maximising performance abilities, accommodating large varying building movements and loading the building in very specific ways.”
  
Pilkington Planar™ specifications

Cable wall:
19.52mm Integral laminate comprising of:
  6mm Toughened Pilkington Optifloat™ Clear
  1.52mm SentryGlas® Interlayer
  12mm Toughened Pilkington Optifloat™ Clear
 
Fin walls:
Double glazed laminate insulating unit constructed as follows:
15mm Toughened Pilkington Optifloat™ with sun coating
16mm black spacer
13.52mm laminate comprising of:
  6mm Toughened Pilkington Optifloat™ Clear
  1.52 Pilkington Planar™|SentryGlas® interlayer
  6mm Toughened Pilkington Optifloat™ Clear 

Laminated Glass Fins with vertical splice

Fittings:

902 Bolts
905J Bolts
NYPH Castings

W&W Glass LLC
302 Airport Executive Park
Nanuet, New York 10954-7403

Phone: 845-425-4000
E-mail: ww@wwglass.com