Oriental Art Center

It has the reputation of "the first theatre in the Far East".

Shanghai Oriental Art Center

synonym

Oriental Art Center generally refers to Shanghai Oriental Art Center

Shanghai Oriental Art Center, located at 425 Dingxiang Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, is located in Pudong administrative and cultural center, with Lujiazui in the East, Shanghai Science and Technology Museum in the south, inner ring viaduct in the West and Yuanshen Sports Center in the north.

Shanghai Oriental Art Center is one of the landmark cultural facilities in Shanghai. Designed by French architect Paul Andrews, it covers an area of 23161 square meters, with a total construction area of 39964 square meters. It has concert hall, concert hall, exhibition hall, Opera Hall and other facilities, and is shaped like a "Butterfly orchid".

In January 2006, Shanghai Oriental Art Center was selected as "Shanghai's top ten fashion landmarks" and known as "Shanghai's latest elegant art publishing place".

In November 2006, Shanghai Oriental Art Center was certified by China Quality Certification Center and passed ISO9001 quality management system certification and ISO14001 environmental management system certification.

Evolution of construction

In 1999, the construction of Shanghai Oriental Art Center was put on the agenda.

On December 18, 2000, the design of Shanghai Oriental Art Center was jointly awarded by French designer Paul Andrews and East China Architectural Design and Research Institute.

In March 2002, Shanghai Oriental Art Center officially broke ground.

On July 1, 2005, Shanghai Oriental Art Center officially opened.

From March 1 to April 10 and from July 1 to September 10, 2018, Shanghai Oriental Art Center was overhauled.

Architectural pattern

overview

Shanghai Oriental Art Center covers an area of 23161 square meters, with a total construction area of 39964 square meters, about 160 meters long and 120 meters wide. The five hemispheres are: main hall entrance, concert hall, concert hall, exhibition hall and Opera Hall.

Concert Hall

The Oriental Concert Hall has 1953 seats, which can meet the performance requirements of large Symphony Orchestra and chorus, as well as various solo and solo concerts. The canyon like stage formed by stage lighting is surrounded by dark hill like auditorium.

There is a pipe organ in the Oriental Concert Hall, which is tailored to local conditions and made by Rieger pipe organ company of Austria. Since 2005, Shanghai Oriental Art Center has invited more than 10 experts from Austria and Germany for installation and debugging. This pipe organ adopts double console technology. When playing, the performer can see the conductor's gesture with the help of external electronic console, and the audience can observe the performer's posture and action.

Opera Hall

The Oriental Opera Hall can accommodate 1015 people, including 102 movable seats in the music pool. The auditorium is divided into two floors. The first floor (including pool seats) can accommodate 799 people, and the second floor can accommodate 216 people to watch the performance. The whole theater takes red as the keynote, and the space of the theater is divided into three areas by the "arc" of the flank, which is in the style of Italian opera house.

The stage of Oriental Opera Hall is the core of the whole theater, which adopts the internationally accepted "pin" shape stage. It also has a two-part orchestra with an area of 120 square meters, which can accommodate 100 people. The stage of the central performance area has side car platform, large car platform of 15 meters square, ice car platform, ballet stage, walking turntable of 14 meters in diameter, five double-layer electric lifting stages and other functions. These functional stages can rise, fall, rotate and move through computer control, and can complete complex screen scene transformation to meet the different needs of opera, ballet, drama, opera, musical and comprehensive artistic performance.

The stage of Oriental Opera Hall has an ice platform with a length of 14.8 meters and a width of 11.72 meters.

Concert Hall

The Oriental Concert Hall has 333 seats. The overall environment is blue with golden Swiss pear wood floor. The auditorium is 360 degrees around the stage to highlight the central position of the stage. The audience and performers can interact with each other in zero distance. The overall design is in ancient Roman style. The stage of the concert hall is added with rotatable design, combined with the design of multi angle lighting and acoustic physics. The Oriental Concert Hall fills in the blank of Chinese chamber music performance place.

Other venues

Rehearsal Room

The rehearsal hall of Shanghai Oriental Art Center is a rehearsal space for artists, with dance rehearsal hall, chorus rehearsal hall, Symphony rehearsal hall and comprehensive rehearsal hall. In addition, the acoustic effect and facilities of the rehearsal hall also have the function of recording studio.

Exhibition Hall

The exhibition hall of Shanghai Oriental Art Center is located on the second floor of the lobby, with an area of 250 square meters and a height of 9.8 meters.

Dressing Room

The three halls of Shanghai Oriental Art Center each have dressing rooms. Among them, the oriental music hall has 8 dressing rooms including 3 VIP dressing rooms, which can accommodate 145 people at the same time; the Oriental Opera Hall has 16 dressing rooms including 2 VIP dressing rooms, which can accommodate 180 people at the same time; the Oriental Performance Hall has 4 dressing rooms.

VIP Hall

Shanghai Oriental Art Center has three VIP halls. The main VIP Hall is located below the entrance of the central hall, which can be used as the hub for VIP to access the Opera Hall and the concert hall. The VIP Hall of the concert hall is located on the first floor next to the concert hall. The style of the VIP Hall of the Opera Hall is consistent with that of the auditorium.

Sound and light

More than 880 high-tech embedded ceiling lamps are installed on the top of the building of Shanghai Oriental Art Center. The three halls of Shanghai Oriental Art Center are equipped with Swiss student Vista 8 digital mixer, wireless PDA conventional light dimmer and other equipment and facilities.

Stage machinery

Shanghai Oriental Art Center adopts Wagner Biro's cat stage mechanical control system, which is the world's first wireless console.

signal transmission

The audio signal and neitong signal of Shanghai Oriental Art Center are all transmitted by optical fiber network. The video system of the three halls is relatively independent, which can transmit the monitoring signals to the VIP Hall, dressing room, actor waiting area, three control rooms, stage supervision station, etc. at the same time, it can also be sent to the central production and processing center for archiving, and can also exchange with external signals. The internal communication system is controlled by the stage supervisor, covering the control rooms of lighting, sound and stage machinery, all technical areas and dressing rooms.

Architectural features

Shanghai Oriental Art Center is designed by French architect Paul Andrews and jointly designed by East China design and Research Institute. It is a post-modern architecture. Shanghai Oriental Art Center starts from the dot in the center of the building and radiates into five "petal" hemispheres of different sizes, forming a dark green bowl shape, presenting as a "Phalaenopsis".

The roof of Shanghai Oriental Art Center is upturned in the periphery and sunken in the middle. In order to avoid water accumulation in the middle and increase the building's load, the roof is equipped with two siphon automatic drainage systems and one overflow drainage system, and a "lace" lamp is set around the roof to enhance the building's vision.

The design of Shanghai Oriental Art Center embodies the concept of "returning to nature",

The facade material of the whole building is double-layer transparent glass with one layer of metal perforated plate, and the color gradually becomes lighter from top to bottom. The exterior walls of each hall of Shanghai Oriental Art Center are made of ceramics of different colors. The three colors and the natural color of stone materials used in the design reflect the traditional Chinese color and the color of the earth (yellow, red, ochre Brown). The color of the wall tiles of each hall starts from the ground, forms a deep and light halo, and finally turns into a light gray, which is integrated with the ceiling.

Get honor

In January 2006, Shanghai Oriental Art Center was selected as "Shanghai's top ten fashion landmarks" and known as "Shanghai's latest elegant art publishing place".

In November 2006, Shanghai Oriental Art Center was certified by China Quality Certification Center and passed ISO9001 quality management system certification and ISO14001 environmental management system certification.

In May 2008, Shanghai Oriental Art Center was rated as one of the "nine brands of Chinese performing arts culture".

On December 23, 2009, "Oriental citizen concert", a popular public welfare concert brand of Shanghai Oriental Art Center, was selected as one of the top ten cultural events in Shanghai in 2009.

On March 24, 2010, Shanghai Oriental Art Center won the title of "excellent performance venue" at the 2010 annual general meeting of Shanghai performance industry and the award ceremony for outstanding collectives and individuals.

In April 2013, Shanghai Oriental Art Center was awarded the "civilized unit of Shanghai in 2011-2012".

On April 28, 2014, the program department of the marketing center of Shanghai Oriental Art Center Management Co., Ltd. was awarded the "National worker pioneer" by the all China Federation of trade unions

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