Guangzhou Opera House, China
2003-
Zaha Hadid Architects
PROGRAM: 1,800 seats Grand theatre, entrance lobby & lounge
Multifunction hall, other auxiliary facilities & support premises
CLIENT: Guangzhou Municipal Government
ARCHITECT: Design Zaha Hadid
Project Director Woody K.T. Yao, Patrik Schumacher
Project Architect Simon Yu
Project Team Jason Guo, Yang Jingwen, Long Jiang, Ta-Kang Hsu, Yi- Ching
Liu, Zhi Wang, Christine Chow, Cyril Shing, Filippo Innocenti, Lourdes
Sanchez, Hinki Kwong
Compeition Team 1st Stage: Filippo Innocenti, Matias Musacchio, Jenny
Huang, Hon Kong Chee, Markus Planteu,Paola Cattarin, Tamar Jacobs, Yael
Brosilovski, Viggo Haremst, Christian Ludwig, Christina Beaumont, Lorenzo
Grifantini, Flavio La Gioia, Nina Safainia, Fernando Vera, Martin Henn,
Achim Gergen, Graham Modlen, Imran Mahmood
2nd Stage: Cyril Shing, YanSong Ma, Yosuke Hayano, Adriano De Gioannis,
Barbara Pfenningstorff
CONSULTANTS:
Local design institute: Guangzhou Pearl River Foreign Investment Architectural
Designing Institute (Guangzhou, China)
Structural engineers: SHTK (Shanghai, China); Guangzhou Pearl River Foreign
Investment Architectural Designing Institute
Façade engineering: KGE Engineering (Zhuhai, China)
Building Services: Guangzhou Pearl River Foreign Investment
Architectural Designing Institute (Guangzhou, China)
Acoustic consultants: Marshall Day Acoustics (Melbourne, Australia)
Theatre consultant: ENFI (Beijing, China)
Lighting design consultant: Beijing Light & View (Beijing, China)
Project management: Guangzhou Municipal Construction Group Co. Ltd.
(Guangzhou, China)
Construction management: Guangzhou Construction Engineering Supervision
Co. Ltd. (Guangzhou, China)
Cost consultant: Guangzhou Jiancheng Engineering Costing Consultant
Office Ltd. (Guangzhou, China)
Principal contractor: China Construction
Third Engineering Bureau Co. Ltd. (Guangdong, China)
SIZE/AREA : 70,000 m2
Photos © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Conceptual Interpretation
Overlooking the Pearl River the Guangzhou Opera House is at the heart
of Guangzhou’s cultural sites development. Adopting state of the
art technology in its design and construction it will be a lasting monument
to the New Millennium, confirming Guangzhou as one of Asia’s cultural
centres. Its unique twin boulder design will enhance urban function by
opening access to the riverside and dock areas and creating a new dialogue
with the emerging new town.
Photos © Virgile Simon Bertrand
Urban Strategy/Landscape
The structure rises and falls at the foot of Zhujiang Boulevard, bringing
together the two adjacent sites for the proposed Museum and Metropolitan
Activities. As an adjunct to the Haixinsha Tourist Park Island, the Opera
House presents a contoured profile to provide a large riverside focus
to visitors. When viewed from the park at the centre of the Zhujiang Boulevard,
the Opera House creates a visual prelude to the Tourist Park Island beyond.
When viewed from the river, the towers of Zhujiang New Town provide a
dramatic back-drop to the Opera House and give a unified vision of civic
and cultural buildings on a riverside setting.
An internal street, an approach promenade, is cut into the landscape,
beginning at the proposed Museum site at the opposite side of the central
boulevard,
leading to the Opera House. Cafe, bar, restaurant and retail facilities
which are embedded shell-like into these landforms are located to one
side of the approach promenade. Visitors arriving by car or bus are deposited
at a “drop-off” on the north side of the site on Huajiu Road.
Service vehicles access the Opera House and Theatre Buildings at either
end of the Huajiu Road. VIP access to the Opera House is from the western
boundary facing Huaxia Road.
Guangzhou Opera
House architect : Zaha Hadid
Photograph © Virgile Simon Bertrand
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