Is it an airport? A postal depot? No, it’s your new opera house

Is it an airport? A postal depot? No, it’s your new opera house

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norman lebrecht

November 16, 2015

 

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The opera house being built in Harbin, China, is – appropriately, you might think – the brainchild of a firm of architects called MAD. Harbin is a wetlands environment and the designers were concerned that the opera house should rise from the marshes, rather in the way the concert hall in Lucerne rises from the lake.

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But not everyone agrees and the debate is starting to heat up.

Does this look like an opera house?

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(And how soon can I get to visit?)

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