NYU’s John A. Paulson Center combines performing arts spaces, housing, and athletic facilities within one building. Join Morgan Miller and Gerry Lourentzatos of Severud Associates for a tour of the five-story, steel-framed podium, which features a 350-seat proscenium theater and other venues acoustically isolated from noise and vibration. Steel trusses span over two below-grade levels and provide space for basketball courts and a swimming pool. The cellars were designed as a waterproofed “bathtub” and are supported by drilled caissons. An 18-story faculty housing tower and 13-story dormitory block are framed with steel and the Girder-Slab system, which reduced erection time, dead load, and structural depth. We will highlight many of these systems along the tour.

Stops along the tour will include exploring NYU’s new gym and floating running track, one of three acoustically isolated theaters, one of the several music practice spaces, an internal atrium which is used as one of the main gathering spaces for students and faculty. The tour will conclude in the lobby of the building where visitors can admire part of one of the main transfer trusses that made this building possible.

No photography allowed.