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WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER WINTER GARDEN
New York, New York

CLIENT Confidential
PROGRAM 250-seat performance venue and “speakers’ corner” that retains the benefits of the Winter Garden’s to-be-demolished grand stairs and improves connectivity
AREA 550 m² (6,000 sf)
COST Confidential
STATUS Feasibility study 2011
ARCHITECT REX
PERSONNEL Vincent Appel (PL), Joshua Ramus
CONSULTANTS Magnusson Klemencic

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The Winter Garden’s existing grand stairs provide necessary connections, a theater of informal meeting functions, views to the Winter Garden and its occupants, and an important venue for public activities.

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In addition, the grand stair defines the Winter Garden as a significant urban room within the city.

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The proposed new connection to the World Trade Center…

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…removes the grand stair and its benefits, while reconfiguring the Winter Garden as a pass-through.

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However, it also increases connectivity to the World Financial Center’s towers and its new ground floor functions.

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Yet, the new second floor retail and dining terrace remain poorly connected and their draw remains weak.

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Is there a way to increase second floor connectivity?

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Improve draw from within and without?

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While preserving ground floor connectivity?

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And resurrecting the benefits of the grand stair?

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Reconstituting the grand stair as a floating public venue…

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…improves connectivity and draw, while reasserting the Winter Garden as an urban room.

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Image Credits: 1, 2, 15, 16: Luxigon

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