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Frank Gehry and Gehry Partners

"This project has a unique combination of three unusual circumstances. I've always wanted to collaborate on a theater with Hugh Hardy because of his knowledge of and great love for theatre. I love Harvey Lichtenstein and am excited to contribute to the new BAM Cultural District. I found Jeffrey Horowitz's brief for Theatre for a New Audience's building compelling. The challenge for us is to animate a series of static rectangles that make up the building, creating something that interacts with its surrounding community to captivate the audience of passers-by. Theatre for a New Audience's work relies on engaging the audience. We have created a series of spaces that both draw people in and offer them a distinctive, intimate theatre experience."- Frank Gehry

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Hugh Hardy and H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture

"H3 is delighted to be a part of the Theatre for a New Audience. This flexible theater will be the first in New York City shaped specifically for Shakespeare. An intimate laboratory for theater exploration, it offers H3—in collaboration with Frank Gehry—the opportunity to create a setting with the intimacy of Shakespeare’s Globe.

As part of the BAM Cultural District, it’s also stimulating for us to take part in an initiative which employs arts to renew the city. We strive to create memorable places that connect architecture with people, hoping the flexibility of our design will make the theater useful to a host of new production ideas.

Finally, theaters, by nature, consume large amounts of energy. Working with TFANA has challenged us to create an environmentally responsible design that incorporates sustainable design methods and utilizes the latest in energy efficient systems. Our aim is to reduce the overall use of energy, making TFANA one of the first LEED certified theaters in the country." - Hugh Hardy

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H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture Team Members

Geoff Lynch, Associate, Project Manager
Mercedes I. Armillas, Project Architect

Jonathan F. P. Rose and Jonathan Rose Companies LLC


Photo by Fred J. Fuhrmeister/ Time Frame Images.

"When I first attended a Theater for New Audience performance, I was astounded by the way in which it so perfectly balanced the long history of theatrical traditions with a prophetic contemporary character. This deep commitment to both tradition and freedom informs every aspect of the Theater for New Audience's new home in Brooklyn. The theater will have all the tools of the past, such as understage traps (essentially, space under the stage for scene's such as Hamlet's graveside scene) along with state of the art lighting, sound and other technical systems to support the vision of emerging and future writers and directors. But most importantly, it has been designed to support the greatest intimacy between actors and audience, so that with writers and directors, they can together become one community." - Jonathan Rose

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Jonathan Rose Companies LLC Team Members

Sarah Haga, Director Owner's Representative Services
Eduardo Finkielsztejn, Senior Project Manager

The Project Development Team

Architects: Frank Gehry (Gehry Partners) and Hugh Hardy (H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture LLC)

Owner's Representative: Jonathan Rose Companies LLC

Theatre Consultant: Theatre Projects Consultants

Consultant to the Artistic Director: Jean-Guy Lecat

Structural Engineer: Robert Silman Associates

MEPF Engineers: Flack + Kurtz

Graphic Design: Milton Glaser Inc.

Construction Manager: F.J. Sciame Construction Company

Acoustic Consultant: Akustiks

Sustainability: Atelier Ten

Architectural Lighting: Fisher Marantz Stone