Comments on: National Grand Theater of China / Paul Andreu

By: utopianrobot

utopianrobot — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:36:45 +0000

i think it will only be a matter of time before this building is kissed by the steel lips of a wrecking ball or torched in some coming revolution.

By: Rupesh Jamkhindikar

Rupesh Jamkhindikar — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:32:37 +0000

Water around makes the building more dynamic…the facade seems quite monotonous for the scale of the building.

Good sight from a distance though.

By: Komalantz

Komalantz — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:53:09 +0000

Who was the interior designer? Presumably the idea of this building was to stand out as something fresh, and different to the surrounding architecture. Then you see it from within and it’s just like some anyother theater trying to fit in this shapes and size. It makes it lose part of its appeal, but a great structure it is nonetheless.

Anyway, perhaps the chinese just got too anxious and contracted anyone to finish the job quicker. Who knows?

By: hx

hx — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:27:58 +0000

The building itself is not bad. but taken the landscape into consideration, it’s just like a fly on a piece of cake. it ruined the harmony of the city center. what a shame. the city planners are really blind.

By: sun

sun — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:45:04 +0000

boiled egg actually hahaha..

By: tommi

tommi — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:54:34 +0000

In Beijing, most architecture happened because of economic booming from Olympics. i hope after 10 or 20 yrs, people still hate this building. One of the worst work in China. As a chinese student, I hate to say this.

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By: THIERRY ALBALADEJO

THIERRY ALBALADEJO — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:40:19 +0000

Fantastic and elegant,also the acoustic is perfect,I understand we have to built stuctures from the XXI Century not to photocopy the pass.Remember when they dress Paris with the Eiffel Tower it was a revolution Imagine now the city without the Tower!People are some time to concervative .Imagination and humour make progres.

By: fengjun

fengjun — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:39:18 +0000

I mean we chinese call it “duck’s egg”