Henning Larsen completes iceberg-like opera house in Hangzhou
Henning Larsen designed the white angular volumes of Hangzhou Yuhang Opera to look like ice floes on a lake. More
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MAD designs Yiwu Grand Theater to look like a Chinese junk
Architecture studio MAD has designed a theatre for the city of Yiwu, China, which will be surrounded by water and topped with "glass sails" to give it the appearance of a boat sailing on a river. More
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David Rockwell inserts huge plywood box into The Shed for inaugural concert
David Rockwell has created "a rough and ready kit of parts" for the set of the first concert at New York cultural venue The Shed. More
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Haworth Tompkins designs Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre with glass foyer
Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre has a triple height glazed foyer with a timber ceiling designed by Haworth Tompkins for a school in Cambridge. More
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Curled aluminium ribs envelop Xiqu Centre for Chinese opera in Hong Kong
Canadian studio Revery Architecture has completed an opera house in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District, which is covered in curved aluminium slats arranged in wavy patterns. More
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Haworth Tompkins creates public foyer for Bristol Old Vic Theatre
Haworth Tompkins has renovated Bristol's Grade I-listed Old Vic theatre – the oldest continuously working theatre in the English speaking world – to create "a public room for the city". More
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OMA's long-awaited Taipei Performing Arts Center nears completion in Taiwan
The Taipei Performing Arts Center, a theatre complex with three auditoriums that plug into an corrugated glass cube designed by OMA, is nearing completion in the capital of Taiwan. More
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Charred timber performing arts centre built by Studio Seilern in parkland campus
Studio Seilern Architects' performing arts centre is intended to look as if it is emerging from the woods at Wellington College in Berkshire, England. More
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UNStudio designs Lyric Theatre Complex to "see and be seen" in Hong Kong
UNStudio is building a theatre complex in the West Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong, featuring three performance spaces connected by ramps. More
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The Storefront Theater was designed "for people to come together" says Dezeen Awards jury chair
In this movie, Dezeen Awards jury chair Michel Rojkind explains why Matthew Mazzotta's modest, retractable The Storefront Theater beat projects by leading international firms to be crowned Architecture Project of the Year 2018. More
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Plantea transforms defunct erotic cinema into contemporary art-nouveau theatre
Interior design studio Plantea looked to art nouveau and retro Americana for the interiors of this multi-purpose theatre in Madrid, which was formerly an adult-film cinema. More
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Foster + Partners releases photos of Apple's Steve Jobs Theater Pavilion
The "largest carbon-fibre roof in the world" tops the Steve Jobs Theater Pavilion at the Foster + Partners-designed Apple Park campus, which is revealed in these new images. More
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Puzzle Ball Theatre will be covered in geometric interlocking concrete panels
Steven Chilton Architects has designed a domed theatre in Guangzhou, China, that will resemble an intricately carved ivory puzzle ball. More
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Mecanoo completes world's largest performing arts centre in Taiwan
Mecanoo's 141,000-square-metre National Kaohsiung Centre for the Arts, described as the "world's largest performing arts centre under one roof", is now open in Taiwan. More
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PES Architects reveals petal-shaped Strait Culture and Art Centre in Fuzhou
PES Architects used custom-developed ceramic tiles and louvres to create the curving lines of the Strait Culture and Art Centre in Fuzhou, China. More
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Steven Chilton Architects designs Wuxi Show Theatre with white columns and golden canopy
A forest of slender white columns will support a latticed roof of metallic louvres covering a theatre by Steven Chilton Architects in Wuxi, China. More
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Inflatable yellow theatre barge pops-up on east London canal
This year's Antepavilion is an inflatable arts venue on a barge that unfurls in just 12 minutes, created by architects Thomas Randall-Page and Benedetta Rogers. More
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Matthew Mazzotta builds retractable Storefront Theater for Nebraska community
An unassuming storefront in a small Nebraska town flips down to become a 100-seat theatre, which artist Matthew Mazzotta installed to reinvigorate the neglected main street. More
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Smiljan Radić uses lantern-like skin to disguise concrete frame of Teatro Regional del Bíobío
A translucent concertinaed shell conceals the gridded concrete interior of this theatre designed by architects Smiljan Radić, Eduardo Castillo and Gabriela Medrano for the city of Concepción, Chile. More
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Es Devlin creates blue-hued set for Girls & Boys play starring Carey Mulligan
Designer Es Devlin created an all-blue stage set for the Girls & Boys play at London's Royal Court Theatre, which charts the dissolution of a woman's marriage through different video projections. More
