New York City’s new Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) has been praised for its design since it opened this fall. Lower Manhattan’s dynamic new 129,000 sq.ft. home for the arts was designed by architectural firm REX in close collaboration with theater consultant Charcoalblue, and executive architect Davis Brody Bond. The building provides unparalleled theatrical flexibility, fosters powerful artistic expression, and delivers technologically advanced and digitally connected spaces for creative performances. The 138’-tall, cube-shaped building offers radically flexible capabilities, housing three principal venues—the John E. Zuccotti Theater, the Mike Nichols Theater, and the Doris Duke Theater—which can be used independently or by combining them. In all, the auditoria can transform into 10 different proportions that collectively reconfigure into more than 60 stage-audience arrangements with capacities ranging from 90 to 950 seats.
Read more about the design of the PAC NYC in the PLSN October 2023 issue on page 44
