Winter Garden
100 West Street | also 225 Liberty Street | Battery Park City | built 1987
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- 1988
Armand Hammer's Stop Cancer gala opens the palm-filled Winter Garden
On the night of October 12, 1988, industrialist Armand Hammer held a $2,500-a-person concert and dinner for his cancer-research drive in the new atrium, drawing 800 guests including Governor Mario Cuomo, Barbara Walters and Merv Griffin. Mstislav Rostropovich conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra, with Isaac Stern soloing. The night raised about $2 million, Cuomo proclaimed Stop Cancer Day, and owner Albert Reichmann paid the bill.
Source: latimes.com
- 1988
Cesar Pelli's Winter Garden atrium opens at the World Financial Center
Architect Cesar Pelli designs the Winter Garden with Diana Balmori as part of the World Financial Center, and the glass-vaulted pavilion opens on October 14, 1988. It rises ten stories, about 120 feet, and the total cost is $60 million. A 400-foot pedestrian bridge over West Street originally ties the atrium to the World Trade Center.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2001
Falling Trade Center debris shatters the Winter Garden's glass vault
When the twin towers collapse on September 11, 2001, falling debris smashes many of the glass panes in the Winter Garden's vault. The pedestrian bridge that connected the atrium to the World Trade Center is also destroyed. The pavilion is then rebuilt during the first year of the Financial Center's recovery.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2002
The rebuilt Winter Garden reopens with President Bush present
The Winter Garden reopens on September 17, 2002, after a $50 million reconstruction that needs 2,000 glass panes, 60,000 square feet of marble floors and stairs, and sixteen new palm trees. It is the first major structure to be fully restored after the attacks. President George W. Bush attends the reopening ceremony.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2003
A recovery exhibit and the eight finalist designs for the new buildings go on view
Early in 2003 the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation put up an exhibit in the atrium on the recovery of the World Trade Center, including early designs for Libeskind's Freedom Tower. Later that year the competition for the new buildings reached eight finalists, whose designs were revealed and shown there.
“In early 2003, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation installed an exhibit documenting the recovery process of the World Trade Center…”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2015
David Rockwell hangs 650 lanterns from the Winter Garden ceiling for the holidays
In 2015 designer David Rockwell created the Luminaries, an installation of 650 lanterns hanging from the Winter Garden's ceiling. Every hour from 8 AM to 10 PM they staged a light show set to a holiday song, and visitors could change the colors at a wishing station of touch-sensitive cubes. Brookfield donated $1 per interaction, up to $25,000, to Outreach, a group that helps young people struggling with addiction.
Source: Wikipedia
- 2018
The Winter Garden hosts a five-borough Winter Biergarten brewery challenge
For three weeks in February and March 2018, the atrium turns into a Winter Biergarten for the 5 Borough Challenge, in which five breweries, one from each borough, compete for guests' votes. The event is held with the nonprofit New Yorkers for Parks and raises $46,000 from beer sales, all of it going to the group. The atrium also hosts concerts, ballet performances, and Tribeca Film Festival screenings.
Source: Wikipedia
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