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Date Location Project Client Status Size Built Municipal Municipal Guangzhou Guangzhou Government Guangzhou, Guangzhou, Opera House House Opera Guangzhou 2003 / 2010 2003 the interior of the auditorium to continue the architectural language of fluidity and seamlessness. between disparate elements and different disparate elements and different between continue this landscape analogy. levels Custom moulded glass-fibre reinforced been used for gypsum (GFRC) units have allowing natural light to penetrate deep allowing into the building. Smooth transitions Fold lines in this landscape define territories define landscape this in lines Fold and zones within the Opera House, cutting canyons dramatic interior and exterior and circulation, lobbies and cafes, for influencedby rivervalleys – and the way erosion. by are transformed in which they interplay between architecture and nature; between interplay erosion, of principles the with engaging Guangzhou The geology and topography. been particularly has design House Opera The design evolved from the concepts of the concepts from design evolved The a natural landscape and the fascinating 400-seat multifunction hall is designed for 400-seat multifunction hall is designed for art, opera and concerts in the performance round. The 1,800-seat auditorium of the The the city by opening it to the , River, opening it to the Pearl the city by unifying the adjacent cultural buildings with the of towers international finance in town. Zhujiang new Guangzhou’s latest Opera House houses the very and the smaller acoustic technology, location. The Opera House is at the heart location. The cultural development. of Guangzhou’s enhances design twin-boulder unique Its Like pebbles in a stream smoothed by pebbles in a stream smoothed by Like the Guangzhou Opera House erosion, its riverside with harmony sits in perfect 70,000m²

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Acoustic Consultants Acoustics Day Marshall (Melbourne, Australia) Theatre Consultant China) ENFI (, Design Lighting Consultant & View Beijing Light (Beijing, China) Project Management Guangzhou Municipal Co. Group Construction Ltd. (Guangzhou, China) Construction Management Guangzhou Construction Engineering Supervision Co. Ltd. (Guangzhou, China) 07 06

Local InstituteDesign River Pearl Guangzhou Investment Foreign Designing Architectural (Guangzhou, Institute China) Structural Engineers China) SHTK (, River Guangzhou Pearl Foreign Investment Designing Architectural Institute Facade Engineering Engineering (Zhuhai, KGE China) ServicesBuilding River Guangzhou Pearl Foreign Investment Architectural Designing Institute (Guangzhou, China) Stage: 2nd Cyril Shing Ma YanSong Hayano Yosuke Adriano De Gioannis Barbara Pfenningstorff

Stage: 1st Filippo Innocenti Musacchio Matias Huang Jenny Chee Hon Kong Markus Planteu Cattarin Paola Jacobs Tamar Brosilovski Yael Haremst Viggo Christian Ludwig Christina Beaumont Lorenzo Grifantini La Gioia Flavio Nina Safainia Vera Fernando Martin Henn Achim Gergen Graham Modlen Imran Mahmood CompetitionTeam

05 urban relationships, combining the culturalthe relationships, combining urban shaped Guangzhou’s traditions that have with the ambition and optimism history, that will create its future. library and archive. The Opera House design The library and archive. is the latest realization of contextual of exploration unique Architects’ The Guangzhou Opera House has been the The of cultural the development catalyst for museums, in the city including new facilities Jason Guo Jingwen Yang Long Jiang Hsu Ta-Kang Ching Liu Yi- Zhi Wang Christine Chow Cyril Shing Filippo Innocenti Lourdes Sanchez Hinki Kwong Junkai Jian Yao K.T. Woody Schumacher Patrik Project Leader Simon Yu Project Team Design HadidZaha Director Project

Zaha Hadid Architects Guangzhou Opera House