Façade installation is continuing to progress on the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center, a 138-foot-tall performance venue in the World Trade Center site in the Financial District. Designed by REX with Davis Brody Bond Architects as the executive architect and developed by non-profit company The Perelman, the structure is located between Skidmore Owings & Merrill‘s One World Trade Center to the west, Vesey Street to the north, Fulton Street to the south, and Greenwich Street to the east.
The marble cladding installation has proceeded rapidly since our last update in October, when the first panels had just begun to go up. Less than two months later, more than half of the facility is now enclosed. Photos from along Vesey Street show the reflected sunlight bouncing off the glass facade of Seven World Trade Center and shining on the marble skin, while both Three and Four World Trade Center tower above the flat roof parapet.
The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center Photo by Michael Young.
The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center Photo by Michael Young.
The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center Photo by Michael Young.
The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center Photo by Michael Young.
The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center Photo by Michael Young.
The southern façade facing the 9/11 Memorial and the eastern side lining Greenwich Street are underway and not too far behind. The sliver where the exterior mechanical hoist is located will be the last portion of the envelope to be filled in, along with the base of the venue that holds the main staircase and a ground-level ADA-accessible entrance directly next to the steps.
The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center Photo by Michael Young.
The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center Photo by Michael Young.
The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center Photo by Michael Young.
The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center Photo by Michael Young.
The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center Photo by Michael Young.
The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center Photo by Michael Young.
The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center Photo by Michael Young.
The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center Photo by Michael Young.
The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center Photo by Michael Young.
It’s amazing to see how far things have come since the early 2010s, when the site of the performing arts center was home to a temporary PATH train entrance.
The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center is scheduled to open sometime in 2023, with an official date yet to be announced.
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Wow. That marble is just stunning. The beauty in each of the slabs and how it all shines together is really spectacular. I actually have to admit, it’s better than the renderings. Very well done so far.
Oblique angles, straight angles, vertical and horizontal. All available in the World Trade Center site, sharp lines are very prominent: Thanks to Michael Young.
Thank G-d for sunlight !
Joining the Calatrava ‘contributions’ in this district, Schlock through and through
Nice stones, more cubes & boxes. Oh, well
The exact same performing arts center is being built at Brown University by the same architect.
not as easily impressed with this tastefully covered block as the rest of you are… Looking forward to seeing it lit up at night tho.