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20-523: Located one block north of Lincoln Road in the South Beach stretch of Miami Beach, the building also features a new 2.5-acre public park next to it, designed by the firm West 8 (after Gehry relinquished the job following a budget reduction). A half acre of that is the SoundScape area, which allows outside visitors to experience live, free "wallcasts" of select events throughout the season through

40-476: A pedestrian mall replete with shops, restaurants, galleries, and other businesses between Washington Avenue with a traffic accessible street extending east to the Atlantic Ocean and west to Alton Road with a traffic accessible street extending to Biscayne Bay. Originally, Lincoln Road was a forest of mangroves , as was most of Miami Beach. In 1912, Carl Fisher cleared a strip of the mangroves from

60-460: A building ... that spills over with populist ideas, sometimes to the point of distraction.... it reflects Mr. Gehry's belief that music, like other creative endeavors, should be more than an aesthetic matter. As a shared experience, one that reaches each of us at our emotional core, it helps unite us into a civilized community." Arrival of the center was hailed by Cathleen McGuigan , architecture writer for The Daily Beast , who said that "Miami Beach

80-455: A perceived faltering interest in classical music by the young." Gehry's role also confirmed that the " starchitect " phenomenon had reached the Miami area, following Herzog & de Meuron 's 1111 Lincoln Road the year before and with that firms's new Miami Art Museum in the works as well. The 100,641-square-foot (9,349.9 m) building cost some $ 160 million. Of that, $ 15 million came from

100-502: A performing arts venue, and ArtCenter/South Florida, a collection of studios and gallery spaces for artists. Street performers entertain a constant stream of tourists and locals on Lincoln Road. It is among the most popular destinations for visitors to the South Beach area. In 2006, the Miami Beach Preservation Board approved the closure of traffic of the west end of Lincoln mall for the purpose of extending

120-506: Is [now] home to world-class architecture and the sense of solid permanence that such buildings bring." Victoria Newhouse of Architectural Record wrote: "A welcoming openness to the exterior is provided by the atrium and reinforced by the Wallcasts, and the auditorium combines intimacy with remarkable physical and acoustical flexibility. The magic sparked by the collaboration of Gehry and Thomas just might fulfill their hope to turn around

140-601: Is steeply banked, allowing concertgoers to be close to the musicians (no seat is more than thirteen rows from the stage). Gehry said "the audience is right in the music." Projections upon sail-like panels hanging from the hall ceiling allow performances to be accompanied by video presentations. For acoustical integrity, as well as to maintain the intimate feeling within the space, in lieu of standard acoustical plaster, BASWA Phon Finishes were applied to each panel allowing very specific amounts of sound absorption of high-frequency hertz bands. The center includes training facilities for

160-514: The Americas". Today Lincoln Road features a state-of-the-art multiplex cinema, the architecturally acclaimed 1111 Lincoln Road parking garage, the acclaimed New World Center concert hall, the offices of Viacom Latin America, as well as over 200 boutiques, local merchants, national retail stores, and fine restaurants and bars. Lincoln Road is also home to the newly restored Colony Theatre ,

180-593: The Atlantic (east) side of the island to the Biscayne Bay (west) side of the island and it eventually became the town's social center. Fisher maintained a real estate office on Lincoln Road. Over time Lincoln Road featured premium retail destinations like Bonwit Teller , Saks Fifth Avenue , and even Cadillac and Packard car dealerships. In the 1950s Miami Beach architect Morris Lapidus , whose credits include Miami Beach's Fountainebleau and Eden Roc hotels,

200-1083: The Modern Movement) led by architect Allan T. Shulman the thoroughfare was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Lincoln Road Mall . Cathleen McGuigan Cathleen McGuigan was editor in chief of the American magazine Architectural Record from 2011 to 2022. She previously served as an architecture critic and arts editor at Newsweek . Her writing has been published in The New York Times Magazine , Smithsonian , Harper's Bazaar , and Rolling Stone . McGuigan has also taught at Columbia University 's Graduate School of Journalism. McGuigan graduated from Brown University and also studied at Harvard. She and her husband live in Sag Habor, New York. This biographical article about

220-828: The city of Miami Beach, $ 25 million from Miami-Dade County , and the rest from private donations and the sale of the New World Symphony's previous home, the Lincoln Theater . Ground was broken for the structure in January 2008. It was built on the site of two old parking lots. A new parking garage was also constructed as part of the project. Lincoln Road Lincoln Road Mall is a pedestrian road running east–west parallel between 16th Street and 17th Street in Miami Beach , Florida , United States . Once completely open to vehicular traffic, it now hosts

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240-611: The free films, video art, and concert wallcasts there had "produced a much-needed sense of community." The New World Symphony was constructed by Facchina Construction Company, LLC and its team led by Jesus Vazquez, John Monts, Jazer Challenger and Modesto Millo. The acoustics for the center were designed by Yasuhisa Toyota . Gehry and Toyota had previously worked together on the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles . The intentionally small seating arrangement

260-690: The like. As Tilson Thomas said of the initial design process, "Gradually it started to turn into one of Frank's buildings turned inside-out, which is essentially what it is – and that it was going to be mostly like Miami." Reviews of the New World Center have been favorable. Christopher Hawthorne of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "This is a piece of architecture that dares you to underestimate it or write it off at first glance." Nicolai Ouroussoff , architecture critic of The New York Times , stated that Tilson Thomas and Gehry had "created

280-488: The new venue, a New World Symphony official said, "Ticket sales have been phenomenal." Unlike some of Gehry's best-known works, including the Disney Hall, the glass-and-white-plaster exterior is mostly rectangular and unassuming. (The acclaim for the prior work had been great enough to scare off potential clients, with Gehry saying, "When Disney opened seven years ago, I was never asked to do another concert hall!") This

300-552: The popular pedestrian mall west to Alton Road. In 2010, Raymond Jungles designed this additional block. Jungles' created an “urban oasis” by using eye-catching materials and biofiltration plants. In 2011, the FIU School of Architecture opened a sister campus to its main campus at University Park , on Lincoln Road, with classroom spaces for FIU architecture, art, music and theater graduate students. On May 6, 2011, by recommendation of DOCOMOMO (Documentation and Conservation of

320-624: The symphony. The symphony's artistic director, Michael Tilson Thomas , was instrumental in emphasizing the public outreach and digital technology aspects of the center. (Gehry and Tilson Thomas share personal history and a long friendship, with Gehry sometimes having baby-sat for Tilson Thomas when both were growing up in the Los Angeles area.) A prime goal of the whole enterprise was to provide ongoing experiments and architectural support towards making classical music more accessible and enticing to younger generations. After its first half-season in

340-463: The use of visual and audio technology on a 7,000-square-foot (650 m) projection wall. Such wallcasts are planned to occur at least twice a month. A sound system incorporating 155 individually tuned speakers augments the high-definition video presentation. During performances, QR codes are shown to enable the outside audience to scan them and obtain more information about the work in question. In addition to live broadcasts of events inside, works in

360-540: The video arts themselves can be shown on the wall, including those produced during the Art Basel Miami Beach event. The projection wall is said to be the largest permanently established projection surface in North America. Over a thousand people watched the wallcasts during each of the performances in the center's opening week. By the end of the park's first year, The Miami Herald wrote that

380-512: Was commissioned to redesign Lincoln Road. Lapidus' design for Lincoln Road, complete with gardens, fountains, shelters and an amphitheater, reflected the Miami Modern Architecture , or "MiMo", style that Lapidus pioneered in the 1950s. The road was closed to vehicular traffic and became one of the nation's early pedestrian malls and had its grand opening November 28, 1960. It billed itself as the "most magnificent mall in all of

400-402: Was done to stay in commonality with Miami Beach's predominantly plaster-and-glass architectural look, where Gehry's usual use of metals would have seemed out of place. However, once inside the atrium, which is lit by the sky during the daytime, the architect's usual assemblage of curved forms dominates, especially in a jumbled stack of over thirty rehearsal rooms, offices, recording facilities, and

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