1221 Sixth Avenue Plaza has been immortalized in the photographs of tourists visiting New York. Opened in 1969, the space between Manhattan's West 48th and 49th streets on Sixth Avenue has entertained tourists and locals with a hollow outdoor plaza and a large traingular sculpture. Yet that space will soon look completely different, as it was recently announced by the Rockefeller Group that Italian architects Citterio-Viel & Partners have been tasked to redesign the plaza for the first time in decades.

The plan is to add 35,000 square feet of retail space to the area that is currently the sunken public plaza. Then, the architects plan to create a beautiful set of staircases leading down into the space, allowing customers and visitors alike to have multiple perspectives of the stores as they move up or down the staircase. Whether it will take away any of the fame or glitz of the nearby sunken ice rink in front of 30 Rockefeller Center will remain to be seen.

While there is no confirmed cost associated with the project, a story in New York Post indicated it will be in the “mid-to-high eight digits.” The redesign is expected to be completed by 2019.