Oriental Art Center
- Concert Hall & Performance Spaces, Shanghai
2000-04
Paul Andreu Architects
Shanghai Oriental Art Center - images + text from Paul Andreu Architects
Oct 2007:
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The Oriental Arts Centre project is a first rank public cultural building,
encompassing mainly three venues : a 1,979 seats Philharmonic Orchestra
Hall, a 1,054 seats lyric Theatre, a 330 seats chamber Music Hall. It
also features ancillary public facilities, such a Exhibition Hall, Music
Shops, restaurant and Arts Exchange premises : arts Library, Multimedia
and training Center. The project includes also all the suitable backstage
facilities for the needs of the performance control areas, performances
premises such as dressing rooms, rehearsal rooms and lounges.
With a 39,694 sq.m construction site area, the project will be built on
7 main levels.
The project architectural intend is based on the following basic principles:
- The building has a base on which the public spaces will develop
- The halls will emerge from the base as trees from the earth
- The building should be covered and enclosed by one unique cantilevered
roof, linked by curved glass walls to the base
- Spaces inside the building are distributed around and from a central
circulation and meeting point. This should apply to the public as well
as to the performers and the VIP's
- The public space should be open and adaptable in order to increase the
potential of use of the building
- The performers should be provided with an efficient and agreeable working
space
- The three performance halls should be different in form and use different
materials
- The outside walls of the three halls will use enamel ceramic as their
main common material
- The material of the façades will be a glass incorporating a perforated
metal sheet of variable density
- The façades design itself will express innovation, modernity
and enhance the public areas
- Although secondary in their functional importance, the public spaces
will define the character of the building and its filting with the spirit
of the time.
Shanghai Oriental
Art Center - more details
Shanghai Buildings
Shanghai Expo 2010
- British Pavilion
Shanghai Building
Oriental Pearl Tower, Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai
Shanghai tower
Jin Mao Tower, Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai
Shanghai building
: Tallest building in China since 2005
Shanghai Oriental
Art Center architects : Paul Andreu
Shanghai context
: Chinese Architecture
Hong
Kong and Shanghai Bank
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