Grand Theater Qingdao, China

Object Type
Concert Halls

Client
Qingdao Conson Industrial Corporation

Architects
gmp Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner, Hamburg/Berlin

Completion
2010

Expertises
Room Acoustics
Building Acoustics

In East China`s city Qingdao, situated between the Lao mountain area and the Yellow Sea, the new Grand Theater Qingdao is located. The building designed by gmp includes an opera house for an audience of up to 1,600, a concert hall for 1,200 and a multi-purpose hall seating 400.
The Theater‘s halls and facilities make it the perfect venue for a broad variety of events like classical concerts, operas, musical and ballet performances, acrobatics and many other events. Worldfamous orchestras like the Berlin Symphony Orchestra and the Moscow State Orchestra gave guest performances in Qingdao shortly after the inau-guration and thus consolidated the Theater‘s international standard.

The halls‘ design was developed and refined in close collaboration with the architects. The selected materials and surface design harmoniously combine the architectural and acoustical design. Due to the 1:1 sample mock-ups on the building site which are rather unusual in China, the acoustically sophisticated coverings of the walls, balustrades and ceilings are of excellent quality.

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