Your eyes land on The Egg, the unusually shaped performing arts venue in Albany. Named for its shape, the building was designed by Harrison & Abramovitz as part of the Empire State Plaza project and was built between 1966 and 1978. You can feel the confidence of a structure that has become an icon of New York's Capital District because of its unusual shape and central location.
The Egg is owned by the state of New York and managed by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Performing Arts Center Corporation, a not-for-profit created in 1979 to manage the performing arts facility in the Empire State Plaza. Its governance is deliberate: an eleven-member board chosen by the New York State Governor, the New York State Senate, the New York State Assembly, and the Albany County Executive, and including a member from the New York State Office of General Services. Construction itself was managed by the New York State Office of General Services, which upon completion assumed operations and contracted with Porter Van Zandt, a Broadway director and former executive.
The Egg anchors the northeast corner of the Plaza, its unusual shape still making you reassess scale.