desirePlate 070 · Beijing, China

National Centre for the Performing Arts

A titanium egg in a lake, so opera would have an otherworldly shell.

2007 · Paul Andreu · 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

Andreu's ellipsoid opera, Beijing's most controversial modern monument.

Commission the full chamber

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

Ask the studio to reconstruct National Centre for the Performing Arts through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if National Centre for the Performing Arts was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.