National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA)

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Title	National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA)
View	Top level with third theater
Work Type	buildings performing arts buildings concert halls opera houses buildings performing arts buildings theaters (buildings)
Style/Period	Twenty-first century
Creator Name	Andreu, Paul
Creator Nationality	French
Date.Creator Birth	1938
Contributors to Project	Paul Andreu (French architect, born 1938)
Subject.work	architecture contemporary (1960 to present) music Performing arts
Country	China
City	Beijing
State/Province	Beijing Shi (municipality)
Location.Notes	Xicheng District; No.2 West Chang'an Avenue
Architectural Material	titanium; glass
Technique	construction (assembling)
Dates	2001-2007 (creation)
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Date Photographed	6/4/2009
Subject Information	Known colloquially as The Egg. The Centre, an ellipsoid dome of titanium and glass surrounded by an artificial lake, seats 5,452 people in three halls (Opera, Music and Theater) and is almost 12,000 m' in size. The exterior of the theater is a titanium accented glass dome that is completely surrounded by a man-made lake. It is said to look like an egg floating on water, or a water drop. The dome measures 212 meters in east-west direction, 144 meters in north-south direction, and is 46 meters high. Guests arrive in the building after walking through a hallway that goes underneath the lake. The titanium shell is broken by a glass curtain in north-south direction that gradually widens from top to bottom.
Information.source	Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)

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