Plans for Rebuilding
A Center for Community, Arts and Culture is at the heart of the Conservancy’s effort to help rebuild key public programming spaces at Saint Peter’s destroyed by the 2021 city water main break.
Restoration of areas devastated by the city water main break will see intentional and distinct continuity with the celebrated original Vignelli-designed spaces. The space features Caledonia granite stretching across the floor, with organized and clean elements to welcome people into an entire level of the building dedicated to the performing arts and community.
At the Center of the theatre will be a renovated Theatre. The design restores the original black box from 1977 with flexibility that allows for an array of works, including readings, plays, and musicals. The Conservancy is contracting with an experienced theater operator who will work with theater companies to stage performances here.
A Community Hall that reflects the modular nature of the Vignelli-designed Sanctuary serves an array of purposes. With smaller meeting rooms around the perimeter, the center can be configured in countless ways as an exhibition space, a projection room, or combined use. Inherent is both an openness for events and a privateness for meeting and consultations.
A series of small-scale rehearsal spaces will be acoustically isolated, allowing for multiple rehearsals, lessons and/or musical warm-up to happen simultaneously.
For the Future
For the Future is the joint capital campaign of The Arts and Architecture Conservancy at Saint Peter’s and Saint Peter’s Church. This campaign seeks to fund the Center for Community, Arts and Culture, as well as restoration of the Church’s Modernist Sanctuary, world-class organ and Nevelson Chapel.
Expressions of light throughout the Center for Community, Arts and Culture will help the lobby and corridors, in particular, feel spacious and airy -- bringing the feeling of the iconic street and plaza levels underground.