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National Centre of Performing Arts
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National Centre of Performing Arts is located at Beijing city center which is to the west of
     The main architect for National Centre of Performing Arts is well-known French architect, Paul Andreu. Visitors need to pass through an 80-meter length corridor before entering the lobby of National Centre of Performing Arts. The unique, advance and novel design has reached a perfect match with contemporary, romance and reality. This huge hemisphere which seems to be the alien along the Changan Street has successfully attracted the eyes of all passer by.
Tiananmen Square, just next to the Great Hall of the People. Besides the main building structure itself, the whole area of 18.9 thousands square meters is consisted of water beneath corridor, basement car park, man-made lake and greenery landscape. The main structure is made up of steel.
There are three main halls in the National Centre of Performing Arts. The Opera Hall with capacity of 2416 seats is mainly for Musical Opera, Ballet performance and dance drama. Symphony performance, traditional musical symphony as well as singing concert are normally taken place at Musical Hall which is able to provide 2017 seats. The Theater Hall with 1040 seats is perfectly designed for drama, Chinese traditional opera and culture dance performance. Each hall has individual dressing room, practice room, performers’ preparation area, clothes-ironing section, props room as well as performers’ resting area.
The National Centre of Performing Arts looks like a hemisphere from outwards with 46.285 meters of height. Majority surface of the hemisphere is made up of titanium board and the middle part of the surface is glass made. The structure of hemisphere is surrounded by a man-made lake.
The surface area of this lake has reached over 35.5 thousands square meters. Moreover, all entrances and exit ways are designed beneath the water. Although the height of National Centre of Performing Arts is about 46.285 meters which seems like a little bit lower than the Great Hall of the People, it is in fact taller than the Great Hall as 60% of the building are located at basement. The construction of National Centre of Performing Arts started in December of 2001 and completed upon September of 2007. 