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Harbin Opera House

Harbin Opera House

The sensual lines of a performing-arts complex express a city's bold bid for attention.
Alexandra A. Seno
December 1, 2015
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From the bridge connecting bustling downtown Harbin to bucolic Sun Island, the new Harbin Opera House comes into view, with its impressive sloping forms that suggest the snow-capped mountains found in this northern Chinese region.
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National Sawdust

National Sawdust

A chamber-sized venue in Brooklyn rewrites the score for classical and experimental music.
Anna Fixsen
December 1, 2015
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A graffiti-covered factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, may not seem the most likely of venues for classical music.


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CaixaForum

CaixaForum

At a dynamic arts center, L-shaped volumes seem to float as they cantilever out to the surrounding city.
David Cohn
December 1, 2015
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"Everything I do is aimed at dynamizing my work,” Carme Pinós declares, “because dynamism communicates lightness.”


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American Conservatory Theater

In Focus: The Strand Theater

SOM reinvents a 100-year-old theater for a new era.
Beth Broome
December 1, 2015
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Dramatically framed by Morphosis’s glassy Federal Building looming behind it, the revived Strand theater, a gleaming red experimental performance space and education center for the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, clicks into its site on San Francisco’s Market Street like one of the final pieces of a complex puzzle.


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Grace Farms by SANAA

New Canaan, Connecticut
Naomi Pollock, FAIA
November 15, 2015
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A ribbon of glass, steel, and wood floats through a hilly landscape, serving a nonprofit foundation dedicated to bringing people closer to art, nature, and faith.
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Poly Grand Theater

Any Way You Cut It: A Pritzker Prize–winning architect carves tunnels through a concrete-and-glass box to create a bold theater complex for a burgeoning district in Shanghai.
Clare Jacobson
May 16, 2015
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A Pritzker Prize–winning architect carves tunnels through a concrete-and-glass box to create a bold theater complex for a burgeoning district in Shanghai.


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Albi Grand Theater

Curtain Call: A simple box, dressed up with a curving metal screen, gives an ancient city a modern monument.
William Hanley
December 16, 2014
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A simple box, dressed up with a curving metal screen, gives an ancient city a modern monument.


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Everyman Theatre by Haworth Tompkins Architects

London
Hugh Pearman
December 16, 2014
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With its first theater built from the ground up, a firm brings the spirit—and the bricks—of the past into a modern performance space in London.


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Ruth Caplin Theatre, University of Virginia

A 300-seat performance space takes cues from the topography of its site.
Joann Gonchar
Joann Gonchar, FAIA
December 16, 2014
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Architect William Rawn is often asked about the 85-foot-long undulating glass facade at his recently completed Ruth Caplin Theatre on the campus of the University of Virginia (UVA), in Charlottesville. People wonder, he says, if it was inspired by Thomas Jefferson’s serpentine brick walls that are part of the so-called Lawn—the complex of 18th-century structures and grounds at the university’s historic heart.


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Toyo Ito's National Taichung Theater on Display

Naomi Pollock, FAIA
October 21, 2014
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Toyo Ito at the theater construction site. Displaying architecture in a gallery is always a challenge. This is especially true with a building still under construction. And even more so when that building is Taiwan’s National Taichung Theater—unarguably Tokyo architect Toyo Ito’s most ambitious project to date. Taking Ito’s structural know-how and spatial ingenuity to new limits, this extraordinary complex appears as a rectangular block. But contained within is a spectacular 3D grid of tubular voids hinted at by the hourglass-shaped cutouts that define the elevations. Expanding and contracting, the hollows accommodate the various programmatic pieces, including a 2014-seat theater,
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