![]() Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts / Richard Barnes “There is music, dance, theater in the building and the landscape,” Hollander added. “The experience is inside and outside simultaneously.” The buildings shape the landscape and vice versa their forms riff off each other. In a tour organized by the American Institute of Architect’s DC chapter, Chris McVoy, a senior partner at Steven Holl’s office, and Hollander, explained how the building and landscape were designed as one. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts / Edmund Hollander Defined by its curving white titanium concrete walls and open lawns and gardens that also host performances and events, “it’s not for the elite it’s for everyone.” The Reach at the John F. That imposing building is now complemented by perhaps its opposite: a lyrical new extension, The Reach, which architect Steven Holl’s firm designed with Hollander after winning the competition for the project six years ago. ![]() Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1971, evokes images of former First Lady “Mamie Eisenhower wearing pearls and a mink stole.” The towering white marble facades architect Edward Durell Stone created represent “architecture for the wealthy elite.” Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts / Richard Barnesįor landscape architect Edmund Hollander, FASLA, the monumental form of the John F. ![]()
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