Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center
251 Fulton St, New York, NY 10007
REX won the 2014 design competition with a translucent marble cube around a reconfigurable interior. The completed building opened to the public on September 19, 2023, on a World Trade Center site that had long been reserved for a performing-arts center.
What got built
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What changed
- REX won an invited design competition for the site's performing arts center in 2014.
- The finished building is clad in nearly 5,000 translucent Portuguese marble tiles, half an inch thick Estremoz Luminati marble laminated with glass and insulated panels, matching the marble-cube exterior concept from the competition-winning design.
- The building opened to the public on September 19, 2023, more than two decades after a performing-arts center was first included in plans for the World Trade Center site.
- The interior was built to REX's stated concept of a raw, reconfigurable performance space behind the refined exterior, supporting frequent reconfiguration between theater layouts.
Why there is nothing to explain
The completed building follows REX's 2014 competition-winning concept, including the translucent marble exterior and reconfigurable interior. The sources reviewed establish the long interval between early site planning and opening, but do not support attributing that entire interval to one general cause.
Details
- Status
- Built, and it follows the rendering.
- Where
- New York, NY
- Neighborhood
- World Trade Center / Financial District
- Developer
- Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, later the Perelman Performing Arts Center nonprofit
- Architect
- REX (Joshua Prince-Ramus)
- Rendering credit
- REX, with rendering support credited to Luxigon, DBOX, Front, and K18
- The built result
- Photographed by Ajay Suresh, 2026-05-26
Sources
- REX: original design concept page rex-ny.com
- ArchDaily: opening coverage, September 2023 archdaily.com
- PAC NYC: official September 19, 2023 opening release the-pac-assets.s3.amazonaws.com
- PAC NYC: official venue site pacnyc.org
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