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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Project Name: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Year: Current
Owner: Lincoln Center
Location: New York, NY, USA
Building Type: Commercial
Type: Intensive
System: Single Source Provider
Size: 10500 sq.ft.
Slope: 25%
Access: Accessible, Open to Public
Submitted by: John Shepley

Designers/Manufacturers of Record:
Plant Supplier: Emory Knoll Farms
Greenroof System: American Hydrotech

The redesigned Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts' glass-walled restaurant topped with a 10,000-sf, sloped vegetated roof will double as a campus lawn. "The roof, in the form of a hyperbolic paraboloid, will reach a full height of 11 feet from the plaza level and 23 feet from the sidewalk level; it will extend down to the plaza on the south end, providing access for pedestrians. The slope varies from a 1:12 pitch at the landing point to a 3:12 slope at the edges. About 50% of the roof is at a 2:12 slope—providing a “fairly comfortable climb” for visitors, (Barista, 2007).

"The skeleton of the green roof that will cover a new restaurant overlooking the north plaza reflecting pool, in front of Lincoln Center Theater, is taking shape; it is scheduled to open in September 2010," (Pogrebin, 2009).

"The green roof — part of Lincoln Center's $650 million West 65th St. redevelopment plan –– won't be installed until the spring or summer of 2009. In the meantime, the architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro and FX Fowle Architects, in collaboration with a turf expert, Frank Rossi, and a horticulturalist, William Harder, have been testing a mock-up of the lawn, 1/16 the size of the real one, in a little-used parking lot in New Jersey," (Taylor, 2006).

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Read the May 10, 2009 article by Robin Pogrebin "Lincoln Center Upbeat About Face-Lift" in the New York Times here , the February 1, 2007 article by Dave Barista "5 Tips on Building a Sloped Green Roof" in Building Design and Construction here , and the October 26, 2006 article by Kate Taylor "Lincoln Center Grows a Green Roof" in the New York Sun here . Learn more about Emory Knoll Farms/Green Roof Plants in The Greenroof Directory.

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