The last public building erected as part of the original master redevelopment plan for the World Trade Center site, it has been two decades in the making.
If you work or live near the World Trade Center, you are regularly confronted with impermanence. A pathway that has been blocked for months by plywood partitions and concrete barricades is suddenly accessible as a corridor for authorized vehicles and swarms of tourists. Corrugated tin walls, a shield for large-scale HVAC equipment resembling steampunk vents, become a cheery Instagram backdrop when splashed with colorful murals.
On a crystalline spring day, I put on a hard hat and met PAC NYC’s chief development and marketing officer, Bob Pilon, at the busy worksite. With its closed-off staircases and two-by-fours laid down as rickety ramps, the space was still something of a labyrinth as we made our way up to the lobby level on the second floor. Dollies and sawhorse tables were scattered across the floor like abandoned children’s toys.
What I experienced on my walk-through with Pilon was merely one possible configuration of the venue’s interior walls. A central feature of the Perelman’s design is its ability to adapt to whateverit might house at a given moment: The walls and seats can be arranged into 60 iterations, from a standard proscenium to a theater-in-the-round to
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