The buildings will assist the Drawing Center, the International Freedom Center, the Joyce International Dance Center and the Signature Theatre.
The Joyce International Dance Center will be Frank Gehry's first theater devoted to dance. Snøhetta will be the architect for the Museum Complex at the World Trade Center site.
LMDC received more than 60 proposals from firms around the world. The group seleted both firms for their design excellence, experience and creativity.
Gehry Partners LLP has extensive experience in the design and construction of theater, performance, museum, academic, institutional and commercial properties. Frank Gehry has built a career that has spanned four decades and produced public and private buildings in America, Europe and Asia. He is the recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Gehry Partners has worked successfully on the design and construction of a number of facilities for performing arts and fine arts institutions including the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles; the Richard B. Fisher Center for Performing Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; the Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago; the Ray & Maria Center in Cambridge, Mass.; and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain.
Founded in 1989, Snøhetta is an international architecture, landscape architecture and interior design company based in Oslo, Norway and has worked internationally during this period. It is most well-known for its completion of the Alexandria Library in Egypt and the Norwegian Embassy in Berlin, and the soon to be completed New National Opera in Oslo and the Turner Contemporary Museum in England. Craig Dykers and Kjetil Thorsen are the founding partners of Snøhetta. Since its formation Snøhetta has won numerous international awards and has been represented in exhibitions around the world. Many have characterized their work as having a presence that resonates with the surrounding context.
