A white travertine opera house and glass-fronted halls face a wide paved plaza with a round fountain at its center.
What Lincoln Center looks like
is the paved square that serves as the gateway to the complex, opening at Columbus Avenue and West 64th Street. Three halls face onto it, and the Revson Fountain stands at its center. Its choreographed water shows run daily, with jets that reach 40 feet.
The sits at the western end of the square, clad in white travertine. Its plaza face is five concrete arches with glass and bronze between them, rising 96 feet above the paving. The house has fourteen stories, five of them below grade. has a glass front on the square, and the faces the same paving.
The on the 1 line has an entrance at Broadway, with green steel railings and a black station sign. Its platform walls are tiled, and the exit signs point toward Columbus Avenue.
At the 's Irene Diamond Building, glass covers the ground floor and the name is set in the glass above. A subway entrance sits at the curb beside it.
Shot in Lincoln Center
Four films have used the plaza or its fountain as a backdrop. Two shot at the fountain and two on the paving with the opera house behind.
Ghostbusters, 1984
The Revson Fountain
Played 1984
Venkman and Dana walk around the fountain at the center of Josie Robertson Plaza while he asks her out, after she leaves an orchestra rehearsal. The fountain was redesigned in 2009, so the 1984 film shows the earlier basin.
Pitch Perfect, 2012
In the finale, a shot shows the groups competing at the final arriving at Lincoln Center. The Metropolitan Opera House is visible behind the characters as they walk outside on the plaza.
Moonstruck, 1987
Key scenes were shot on the plaza in front of the opera house, and the film cuts to the fountain before its opera sequence. The La Bohème scene was shot at the Markham Theatre in Markham, Ontario.
Black Swan, 2010
Black Swan used the Revson Fountain as a backdrop. Any shot at the fountain today sees the basin from the 2009 redesign.
The two wings of the Palais de Chaillot form a wide arc around a broad esplanade, with a fountain in front of the palace, so a wide frame has much the same plan as the plaza. The palace was built for the 1937 exposition in a classicising moderne style, with sculptural groups at the attic level. The Eiffel Tower sits in the view from the esplanade, so a wide shot gives Paris away unless the frame stays on the palace. Keep the glass fronts of the Lincoln Center halls out of the frame, since modern glass gives the match away. Try searching wide esplanade fountain now.
The Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in EUR is clad in travertine over a concrete frame, the same stone as the opera house's facade. Its rows of arches were drawn from the Colosseum, and the building was designed in 1938 and finished in 1943. The arches fill the frame in a tight shot, so keep the plaza's fountain and the glass of the halls out of it. A wide view of the Lincoln Center plaza shows its modern glass and gives the match away. Try searching travertine arches now.
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