How a 7,000-Ton Broadway Theater Was Hoisted 30 Feet
How a 7,000-Ton Broadway Theater Was Hoisted 30 Feet
Abstract
The Palace Theater, a home for Broadway shows, was designed by the architectural firm Kirchhoff & Rose in the Beaux-Arts style. It was a crucial part of a $2.5 billion transformation of the building, which will include a 661-room hotel and an outdoor stage facing Times Square when it opens next year. The theater will have a new entrance on West 47th as well as a new lobby. The project will also include a new Lobby, marquee, marquee. ‘I feel. 'I feel like it’s worked like a charm,’ says the engineer on the project. 'It's been quite a quite a few people huddled in a plywood shack with their eyes on monitors installed in the theater. A slight tilt less than half a degree one way or another would have been enough for a hard stop,” said Robert Israel, an executive vice president of L&L who worked