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The National Grand Theatre is located in West Chang 'an Avenue in Beijing, west of the Great Hall of the People and south of West Chang 'an Avenue. It consists of the main building of the National Grand Theatre, the underwater corridor, the underground parking lot, the artificial lake and the green spaces on the north and south sides, with a total area of 1 18900 square meters and a total construction area of about 16500 square meters, including the main building 105 square meters and underground ancillary facilities 6. The total investment is 2.688 billion yuan. The main building consists of external steel structure envelope, 24 16-seat opera house, 20 17-seat concert hall, 1040-seat theater, public hall and supporting rooms. The shell of the outer steel structure is semi-ellipsoid, with the long axis length in the east-west direction of 212.20m, the short axis length in the north-south direction of143.64m, the building height of 46.285m, and the deepest part of the foundation of-32.5m. The ellipsoid roof is mainly decorated with titanium plates, and the glass curtain wall is gradually opened in the middle. Around the ellipsoid shell is an artificial lake with an area of 35,500 square meters, and all kinds of passages and entrances are located underwater. The National Grand Theatre is 46.68 meters high, 3.32 meters lower than the Great Hall of the People. But its actual height is much higher than the Great Hall of the People, because the underground height of the National Grand Theatre is as high as 10 floor, and 60% of its buildings are underground. Design completed in 2008: PAULANDREUANDADP.

The National Grand Theatre was designed by French architect paul andreu, and the Paris Airport Company was responsible for the design. The roof of the National Grand Theatre is semi-oval, the surface is covered with soft and shiny titanium, and there are two triangular glass curtain walls on both sides. The whole building floats on artificial water, and pedestrians need to enter the performance hall from an 80-meter-long underwater passage. The Grand Theatre is a combination of tradition and modernity, romance and reality. The planning of "the theater in the city, the city in the theater" appears with an unimaginable "pearl in the lake" and is dedicated to the new century.

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The main building of the National Centre for the Performing Arts consists of the external envelope and the internal opera house, concert hall, theatre, public hall and supporting rooms. There are three buildings on the ground floor: opera house, concert hall and theater, which are separated by roads and connected by suspended walkways. It seems that the ground building on the water is a huge shell, covering, shielding, surrounding and illuminating all the halls and passages. The reflection of the building in the water constitutes the external landscape of the Grand Theatre. The outer protective structure is a steel shell, which is semi-ellipsoidal. The east-west major axis is 212.20m, and the north-south minor axis is143.64m. The total height of the building is 46.285m, and the deepest underground part is-32.50m. The oval roof is mainly made of titanium metal plates. The surface of the shell is made of 18398 titanium metal plate and ultra-white glass above 1226, and the glass curtain wall is gradually opened in the middle, creating a visual effect that the stage curtain is slowly opened. The main building is surrounded by an artificial lake, which is surrounded by a cultural and leisure square composed of large green spaces. The artificial lake covers an area of 35,500 square meters, with a water depth of 40 cm. The 35,000-square-meter pool is divided into 22 compartments. The compartment design is not only convenient for maintenance, but also saves water and is beneficial to safety. Each grid is relatively independent, but it maintains the overall consistency in appearance. In order to ensure that the water in the pool "does not freeze in winter and algae does not grow in summer", a set of water circulation system named "Central Liquid Cold and Heat Source Environmental System Control" is adopted.

The "underwater corridor" at the south entrance and north entrance of the Grand Theatre extends to 6 meters underground, and the audience enters the Grand Theatre through the underwater corridor. The main entrance on the north side is an 80-meter-long underwater corridor, and the entrance and other passages on the south side are also located underwater. When the audience enters the Grand Theatre, they will find a shallow water area overhead. There is a ticket office at the entrance, and there are service places such as art exhibitions and art shops on both sides of the underwater corridor. The north entrance of the National Grand Theatre is connected with Tiananmen West Station, and the underground parking lot can accommodate 1 0,000 motor vehicles and 1 0,500 bicycles. According to Andrew's design, the Grand Theatre retreated 70 meters from Chang 'an Avenue, leaving 70 meters of open space, all of which became green spaces. There are three theaters in the Grand Theatre, with an opera house in the middle, a concert hall in the east and a theater in the west. The three war zones are completely independent and can be connected with each other through air corridors. There is a large lounge on the roof platform of the Opera House, a library and audio-visual materials hall on the roof platform of the concert hall, and a press conference hall on the roof platform of the theater. The internal opera house mainly performs opera, ballet and ballet, with an audience of 24 16 seats; The concert hall mainly performs symphonies, folk music and concerts, with an audience of 20 17 seats; The theater mainly performs drama, Peking Opera, local operas and folk songs and dances, with an audience of 1040 seats. Each theater has a dressing room, a command lounge, a piano practice room, an actor waiting area, a dressing room, a clothes ironing room, a prop room and an actor lounge. The stage technical room is equipped with audio control room, lighting control room, dimming equipment room, audio equipment room and camera room. The silk-covered area of the wall of the whole grand theater reaches 4000 square meters.

There are five rehearsal halls in the Grand Theatre, which are located between the three theaters and can be used separately. The large rehearsal hall is mainly used for synthetic rehearsal; Two rehearsal halls, one for dance rehearsal and the other for band rehearsal; The two small rehearsal halls are mainly used for division rehearsals. The Grand Theatre has a centralized audio-visual production center, including a large recording studio, a simultaneous recording studio, a television relay studio and an audio-visual post-production studio. The Grand Theatre has a large painting room, set up scenery hanging and painting equipment, scenery, props renovation room and scenery warehouse, and two lifting platforms for container transportation.