Article: Face lift for Lincoln Center

NEW YORK -- Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has outlined plans to transform a nondescript Manhattan side street into a pedestrian friendly space and make the cultural complex more accessible to theatergoers, music lovers, film buffs and people- watchers.

Instead of parking garage entrances and "opaque walls" that give no hint of what goes on inside, the long block of West 65th Street off Broadway will become a glassed-in "front door" for the famed Juilliard School of Music and a host of other performance facilities, officials said.

At a news conference Tuesday, architect Elizabeth Diller used computer animation to give observers an unnervingly realistic virtual tour of what the site ...

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