Suzhou Bay Cultural Center
The cultural centre is part of the Wujiang lakefront masterplan, where one of China's most beautiful lakes meets the main axis of the new city.
- Type
- Competition won
- Status
- Built
- Completed
- 2020
- Client
- Suzhou Municipal Government
- Scale
- 92,000 m²
- Program
- Opera house (1,600 seats), rehearsal rooms, music conservatory, restaurants, ten cinemas and an IMAX; two museums (30,000 m²) and a conference centre
- Architect
- Atelier Christian de Portzamparc, AND Studio, collaboration
About
The opera house and the museum and conference complex are brought together in a single sweep from north to south.
Their duality is a complementarity, close to the principle of yin and yang. Double metallic bands tie the two buildings together and catch the iridescent reflections of water and sky.