The National Grand Theatre was designed by French architect paul andreu, and the Paris Airport Company was responsible for the design. The roof of the National Grand Theatre is semi-oval, the surface is covered with soft and shiny titanium, and there are two triangular glass curtain walls on both sides. The whole building floats on artificial water, and pedestrians need to enter the performance hall from an 80-meter-long underwater passage. The Grand Theatre is a combination of tradition and modernity, romance and reality. The huge oval shape of the National Grand Theatre looks like a "whisper" on Chang 'an Avenue, which is very eye-catching because of its conflict with the surrounding environment. The planning of "the theater in the city, the city in the theater" appears with an unimaginable "pearl in the lake" and is dedicated to the new century.
The main building of the National Centre for the Performing Arts consists of the external envelope and the internal opera house, concert hall, theatre, public hall and supporting rooms. There are three buildings on the ground floor: opera house, concert hall and theater, which are separated by roads and connected by suspended walkways. It seems that the ground building on the water is a huge shell, covering, shielding, surrounding and illuminating all the halls and passages. The reflection of the building in the water constitutes the external landscape of the Grand Theatre.
The main building of the National Grand Theatre is surrounded by an artificial lake, surrounded by a cultural and leisure square composed of large green spaces. The artificial lake covers an area of 35,500 square meters, with a water depth of 40 cm. The 35,000-square-meter pool is divided into 22 compartments. The compartment design is not only convenient for maintenance, but also saves water and is beneficial to safety. Each grid is relatively independent, but it maintains the overall consistency in appearance. In order to ensure that the water in the pool "does not freeze in winter and algae does not grow in summer", a set of water circulation system named "Central Liquid Cold and Heat Source Environmental System Control" is adopted.
The structure of the National Grand Theatre consists of three functional areas. North entrance and underground garage; Functional areas include opera house, theater, concert hall, etc. South entrance, restaurant, computer room and other service areas.
The "underwater corridor" at the south entrance and north entrance of the Grand Theatre extends to 6 meters underground, and the audience enters the Grand Theatre through the underwater corridor. The main entrance on the north side is an 80-meter-long underwater corridor. The south entrance and other passages are also located underwater. When the audience enters the Grand Theatre, they will find a shallow water area overhead. There is a ticket office at the entrance, and there are service places such as art exhibitions and art shops on both sides of the underwater corridor. The north entrance of the National Grand Theatre is connected with Tiananmen West Station of Beijing Subway 1 Line, and the underground parking lot can accommodate 1000 motor vehicles and 1500 bicycles. According to Andrew's design, the Grand Theatre retreated 70 meters from Chang 'an Avenue, leaving 70 meters of open space, all of which became green spaces.
The National Center for the Performing Arts has three theaters, with an opera house in the middle, a concert hall in the east and a theater in the west. The three war zones are completely independent and can be connected with each other through air corridors. The floor of the public hall is covered with more than 20 kinds of gems with different colors and patterns. The ceiling of the public hall is made of precious wood and patched into pieces of "mast sails", with different shades of red and alternating light and shade. Alain Boni, a famous painter from France, dyed various parts of the Grand Theatre with more than 20 different red dots. The silk-covered area of the wall of the whole grand theater reaches 4000 square meters.
Opera House mainly performs opera, ballet and ballet, with an audience of 24 16 seats. The concert hall mainly performs symphonies, folk music and concerts, with an audience of 20 17 seats; The theater mainly performs drama, Peking Opera, local operas and folk songs and dances, with an audience of 1040 seats. Each theater has a dressing room, a command lounge, a piano practice room, an actor waiting area, a dressing room, a clothes ironing room, a prop room and an actor lounge. The stage technical room is equipped with audio control room, lighting control room, dimming equipment room, audio equipment room and camera room. There is a large lounge on the roof platform of the Opera House, a library and audio-visual materials hall on the roof platform of the concert hall, and a press conference hall on the roof platform of the theater.