Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line
Founded in 1979, Diller Scofidio + Renfro first stirred interest with its unorthodox exhibitions that blurred the boundaries between art and architecture. With the revamping of both the High Line and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, the interdisciplinary design firm had galvanized the public's attention. Between 2004 and 2011, DS+R, in collaboration with James Corner Field Operations, converted the derelict High Line into a sophisticated 1.5 mile elevated urban park. From 2003 to 2010, the firm redesigned Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and The Juilliard School, and built a free-standing, grass-covered pavilion, inventively modifying the public spaces connecting the complex’s existing buildings. As the architecture critic Martin Filler states in the film, "Both the High Line and Lincoln Center have had a really euphoric effect on life in New York. So it’s populism of a very high order."
Supported by the US Embassy in Egypt