IT’S DINNERTIME IN NEW YORK
Where do you go after you reach the very top of Manhattan’s dining scene? For New York architecture studio MN, the answer is simple: You head right back down to the street to start pounding the pavement all over again. Granted, these days, it’s some pretty lofty pavement that they’re pounding.
After completing the latest in a growing portfolio of destination dining environments last August — Saga, on the 63rd floor of a Financial District skyscraper — MN is now at work contributing to Diamond Schmitt Architects and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects’ revitalization of David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. Placed in charge of the hospitality spaces, the 20-person studio envisions a new restaurant that will spill out into the venue’s monumental courtyard. “We really want the restaurant to feel like part of that larger shared space outside,” says Jonathan Garnett, the firm’s creative director. “We’re making a real, painstaking effort to open it up and create something remarkably transparent.”
For Garnett and the rest of MN’s leadership team — Preeti Sriratana, Anya Gribanova and Steven Harper — getting selected to work on such a prominent landmark is a profound accomplishment not only because it involved
