The National Centre for the Performing Arts stands just west of Tiananmen Square and the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, completed in 2007 to a design by the French architect Paul Andreu. Its titanium and glass dome, elliptical in plan and popularly nicknamed the Giant Egg, encloses an opera house, a concert hall and a theater beneath a single continuous shell that sits within an artificial lake, with public access reached through an underground pedestrian tunnel that passes beneath the water. The building's stark, self-contained modern form drew considerable controversy in China both for its cost and for its sharp visual contrast with the historic imperial-era architecture of the adjacent Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square precinct. At night the dome's glass central band is illuminated from within, making the building, and the lake reflecting it, a prominent feature of Beijing's skyline near the historic city center.
Facts
Building TypePerforming arts centre (opera house, concert hall, theatre) 1 LocationNo. 2 West Chang'an Avenue, Xicheng District, Beijing, China 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
Source National Centre for the Performing Arts (China)
Source National Centre for the Performing Arts (China)
Uses Element
Source National Centre for the Performing Arts (China)
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: China, located there.
Sources
1. National Centre for the Performing Arts (China)
Introduction
arts centre containing an opera house
Infobox, Address field
Beijing, China, No.2 West Chang'an Avenue, Xicheng District
Infobox, Opened field
Opened December 2007
Infobox, Height field
a height of 46.285 meters
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
The National Centre for the Performing Arts stands just west of Tiananmen Square and the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, completed in 2007 to a design by the French architect Paul Andreu. Its titanium and glass dome, elliptical in plan and popularly nicknamed the Giant Egg, encloses an opera house, a concert hall and a theater beneath a single continuous shell that sits within an artificial lake, with public access reached through an underground pedestrian tunnel that passes beneath the water. The building's stark, self-contained modern form drew considerable controversy in China both for its cost and for its sharp visual contrast with the historic imperial-era architecture of the adjacent Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square precinct. At night the dome's glass central band is illuminated from within, making the building, and the lake reflecting it, a prominent feature of Beijing's skyline near the historic city center.
In Style: Postmodern Architecture, Wikipedia categories
Category:Postmodern architecture in China
In Style: High-Tech Architecture, Wikipedia categories
Category:High-tech architecture
Uses Element: Steel, Wikipedia article
The exterior of the NCPA is a steel structural shell.
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