Juilliard Expansion and Renovation

In the years since its completion in 1969, Juilliard has outgrown its space. A major expansion and renovation of the facility is taking place via the opportunity afforded by Lincoln Center’s 65th Street Redevelopment Project. Construction commenced in summer 2006 and is scheduled to conclude in fall 2009.

The project allows Juilliard to create approximately 39,000 square feet of additional space in and around Juilliard’s current classroom building:

A new four-level wing above Alice Tully Hall’s lobby, whose footprint is expanded to the property line between 65th and 66th streets, on Broadway, is designed by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro. Juilliard’s portion will include new and renovated teaching studios; classrooms; practice rooms; offices; a multi-use 2,000 square foot performance space for dance, drama, and opera (it will be Juilliard’s 5th theater within the building); a state-of-the-art music technology center with two rehearsal rooms and a teaching/engineering studio that is connected to the multi-use theater for experimentation and performance; and a 1,100 square foot Writing and Communication Center with conference room, classroom, and a large tutoring and study area. A dance studio, with walls of glass on three sides, projects forward from the Juilliard building and is visible from Broadway.

Two open-air courtyards on the top floor of Juilliard have been enclosed and reclaimed for teaching studios and an acoustically calibrated 3,500 square foot orchestra rehearsal studio. Other interior spaces will be reconfigured to house a scholars’ reading room and a climate-controlled and secure storage room dedicated to the Juilliard Manuscript Collection, and even a new faculty lounge.

Juilliard’s entranceway – once separated on two levels that split traffic to the classrooms and the theaters – is reconfigured to street level, with a grand lobby and staircase, new box office facilities, and newly-organized suites for Admissions, the Evening Division, a student lounge and meeting room, and ADA services.

In grateful recognition of leading donors to the Juilliard Second Century Fund, Juilliard has named a number of areas to be created or renovated as part of its redevelopment project. As of summer 2007, these include the Irene Diamond Building (comprising the new wing in its entirety), The Peter Jay Sharp Theater (formerly the Juilliard Theater), The Stephanie P. McClelland Drama Theater, The Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater (new multi-use space), Glorya Kaufman Dance Studio, The June Noble Larkin Lobby, Morse Student Lounge, Janet and Leonard Kramer Box Office, and the Sidney R. Knafel Admissions Suite.