Beijing and Shanghai, as two of the world’s most famous cities with two distinct style attract the people throughout the world. In Beijing, the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, Hutong, Peking Opera, roast duck etc make you feel a strong cultural atmosphere here; but if you want to know China’s rapid development, the recent outcome of Shanghai’s science and technology, information technology, trade, financial will make you feel an international cultural exchange and integration in the bustling city.
After five years of construction,
China's National Grand Theater was started to run in Jul 2008.
The egg-shaped edifice is one of the most talked-about architectural
projects in years. It's audacious and innovative design is by
French architect Paul Andreu and the project itself has evolved
on a grand scale.
Situated in the heart of the capital, the futurist theater emerges
like an island at the center of a lake. Employing over 20,000
titanium panels and 12 hundred panes of laminated glass, the
stunning exterior aesthetically portrays the opening of a giant curtain.
Entering the theater, audiences will pass through an 80-meter
tunnel, looking up at shimmering water viewed through the transparent
roof.
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