NYC Regional City Program: Session 1A: The Shed

1 November 2019
9:00 AM – 11:30 AM

This project tour will present technical aspects of the design and construction of The Shed in NYC. The Shed’s open infrastructure can be permanently flexible for an unknowable future and responsive to variability in scale, media, technology, and the evolving needs of artists.

The Shed is dedicated to commissioning, producing, and presenting original works of art, across all disciplines, for all audiences. The Shed’s building—an innovative 200,000square-foot (18,500 m²) structure designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Lead Architect, and Rockwell Group, Collaborating Architect—is designed to physically transform to support artists' most ambitious ideas. Its eight-level base building includes two levels of gallery space, a versatile theater, a rehearsal space, a creative lab, and a skylit event space; a telescoping outer shell can deploy from its position over the base building and glide along rails onto an adjoining plaza to double the building’s footprint for large-scale performances, installations, and events.