desirePlate 075 · Guangzhou, China

Guangzhou Opera House

Two pebbles of granite and glass, washed up for music.

2010 · Zaha Hadid · Asia

The chamber score

Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto

He Zhanhao & Chen Gang · 1959

A folk tragedy in a concert hall of concrete.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

Hadid's opera house, a landmark of parametric civic architecture in China.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Guangzhou Opera House through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Guangzhou Opera House was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.