Comments on: Nanjing Performing Arts Center / Preston Scott Cohen

By: Marta Krivosikova

Marta Krivosikova — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:55:12 +0000

Nanjing Performing Arts Center / Preston Scott Cohen #architecture http://t.co/wmM1dyH @archdaily

By: isis

isis — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:58:38 +0000

oooops! sorry GG.
what i ment is Michael.
BIG SORRY :)

By: isis

isis — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:56:05 +0000

hmm maybe gg just lookin for attention. i used this building as my study case,btw. i could really see the form expression here. correct me if i’m wrong :D

By: svst

svst — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:15:22 +0000

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By: debesiu

debesiu — Wed, 12 May 2010 05:40:18 +0000

the photographer did a great job!

By: AD Round Up: Cultural Centers Part III | ArchDaily

AD Round Up: Cultural Centers Part III | ArchDaily — Tue, 11 May 2010 21:31:47 +0000

[...] Nanjing Performing Arts Center / Preston Scott Cohen Located centrally in the new Nanjing University Campus in Xianlin, this building aims to offer a singular expression of the dialogue between two opposing paradigmatic forms of symbolic significance: a curving roof that appears to be related to the landscape of the larger campus context, and a tower which acts as a beacon and observation point (read more…) [...]

By: afshin

afshin — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 07:52:59 +0000

thats exactly what’s happening to almost every new architectures in China. They always mix everything together and call it “abundence”.
very good

By: stephanie

stephanie — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:56:36 +0000

I’m a student of NJU and I major in architecture. in my opion, the building is beautifully done.

By: afshin

afshin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:28:52 +0000

بسیار عالی

By: Qiu Kuai

Qiu Kuai — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:18:43 +0000

Sorry to tell you that this building is said to be the only building worth seeing in the new campus of Nanjing University.I learned it from my friend in the University.

By: Nicholas Patten

Nicholas Patten — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:01:01 +0000

Nicely Designed: Nanjing Performing Arts Center. http://bit.ly/cIOUOx

By: Ivan

Ivan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:27:23 +0000

It is not metal; it is tile. That is one of the great things about this building. It fools you! Iwan captures that beautifully. Problem is that I bet his pictures are better than the real thing. How much do you want to bet on it?

By: David

David — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:23:00 +0000

“spending a portion of the “very low budget” on a folded surface but punting on the simple tectonics is lame”, you say. I disagree. It was smart that the architect knew to accept certain basic things, due to the budget limitations, but not others. He chose to use extreme shapes and the common Chinese craft of tile to achieve something modest but good. If he had tried to make the beam to column connection special, we would have a debased Swiss tectonic and he would have had too little to spend on making the spatial impact he was after. He had to choose between modifying the basic tectonics vs modifying the basic spatial design. I think he made the right choice under the circumstances in China today.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:09:52 +0000

But it is much more unified than the colliding forms that you are talking about. This is all unified by two materials – tile that looks like metal and Glass. That’s it. The angles are awkward in a very intentional way, creating unexpected effects (look at that courtyard) but ultimately they hold everything together.

By: wartian

wartian — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:15:25 +0000

the cleft like staircase!

By: brian

brian — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 03:58:53 +0000

The shadow box is junk. It would be a whole lot cleaner if it didn’t look like they just sealed it up with exposed steel framing. And the beam to column connection detail in the one interior shot is also junk. I think it’s pretty clean overall, but spending a portion of the “very low budget” on a folded surface while punting on the simple tectonics is lame.

By: KPF

KPF — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:13:35 +0000

looks really nice like a KPF project, late 90s gestural corporate expressionism!

By: frank

frank — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:37:22 +0000

There are some very nice moments within the project, but I can’t get past some of the late 80′s handling of collided, canted forms. Where the stair is integral to the form I think it is quite nice and achieves the stated aims; where the solid stair wraps the glass box, along with the angled punched openings, its gets very awkward..

By: Rembo

Rembo — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:35:36 +0000

Scotty, baby. Only 1 interior shot? Give me more.

By: David Basulto

David Basulto — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:47:16 +0000

Actually, I think that it stands apart from other big boxes in China that are just cardboard models scaled up. The level of detail of the different pieces of the facades reveal a conscious work behind this project, standing apart from the rest of the context.