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Jazz at Lincoln Center
New York, New York Located in Columbus Circle in New York City, the Frederick P. Rose Hall is designed according to the principles of town square design, to encourage the intimacy and interaction between the audience and musicians. The jazz complex includes the 600 seat Allen Room overlooking Central Park, the Rose Theater, a flexible 1,300 seat concert hall, and a jazz club. Varied forms influenced the design of the Allen Room, including a Greek amphitheater and the Rainbow Room. Seats can be raised hydraulically to expand the width of the tiers for banquet tables and dancing. In order to ensure acoustic integrity, the Rose Theater is essentially a box within a box, insulated and floating on steel and neoprene padding to ensure complete isolation from the rest of the Time Warner Center building and the subway station below. Acoustical baffles and curtains are adjustable according to the type of music performed; jazz performances need rooms that reverberate less than classical halls, while opera and theater productions (which are also performed at the Rose Theater) demand different acoustical reverberation. Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola is a 140-seat jazz club featuring nightly jazz performances. A state-of-the-art recording studio enables the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra to record on-site, with ample room for other orchestras to record alongside. All of the performing, rehearsal and classroom spaces are connected by fiber-optic cable to allow audio and video recording, and broadcast from anywhere in the complex. Educational classrooms, dressing rooms and the Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame, a multimedia exhibition on jazz history, complete this monument to Jazz. - - - - Home \| Who We Are \| Projects \| News \| Resources © 2001 - 2008 Jonathan Rose Companies LLC Email us \| Contact Information		Firm Role Jonathan F.P. Rose, Chair of Building Committee Project Description First state of the art performance, education and broadcast facility designed specifically for jazz Construction Type New Construction Architect Rafael Vinoly Architects PC Development Profile 175,000 sq. ft Total Development Budget $130 million Status Completed 2004