150 Holborn
Perkins and Will · London, United Kingdom · 2023
Projects / Built project
Beijing Performing Arts Centre
Three performance venues beside Beijing's Grand Canal, conceived as a group of lanterns within a public park.
- Programme
- Opera house, theatre and concert hall
- Size
- 1,349,255 sq ft
- Environmental rating
- China Three Star
- Design collaboration
- Perkins&Will and Schmidt Hammer Lassen
The story
The story behind the work.
Beijing Performing Arts Centre brings an opera house, theatre and concert hall together beside the Grand Canal in Tongzhou. The buildings sit on a shared plinth that extends their foyers into the surrounding park, with forms that refer to canal-side storehouses, boat sails and a theatre curtain opening.
A metro station, ramps and an always-open public plinth make the complex part of the wider district rather than an isolated arts venue. Air-quality controls, water-saving fixtures and a high-performance facade contributed to a China Three Star environmental rating. Completed in 2023, the project is recorded as a Perkins&Will and Schmidt Hammer Lassen collaboration, with no Mario Romero credit inferred.
Credits
- Architecture with Schmidt Hammer Lassen
- Perkins and Will
The practice