Harbin Grand Theater, a Cadac project, was awarded the World's best Building of the Year
ArchDaily is known as one of the most popular architecture websites in the world. Many of its readers are architects from all over the world. More than 3,000 buildings released in 2015 were selected as the top five in 14 categories. The website selects the best works of the year. Among them, Harbin Grand Theater won the Best Cultural Building category, which is the only one from China.
The architectural design of Harbin Grand Theatre was jointly undertaken by Beijing MAD Architects, who designed the Monroe Building in Toronto, and Beijing Institute of Architectural Design, who designed the National Grand Theatre. Ma Yansong, the founder of Beijing MAD Architects, is known as the most important voice and representative of the new generation of architects. He is the most internationally recognized Chinese designer. He has been awarded Honorary International membership by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). Harbin Grand Theatre spans six years from design to completion, during which it has been featured on the covers and reports of the world's most important authoritative architecture and design magazines: Architectural Record of the United States, Abitare of Italy, MARK of the Netherlands, GA of Japan, ICON of Britain and Architectural Review of Britain.
Harbin Grand Theater consists of a 1,600-seat grand theater and a small theater that can seat 400 people. Harbin Grand Theater has adopted CADAC products from the UK. The whole audio system has dual digital signal transmission, coupled with the analog signal dual redundancy thermal backup design, safety and reliability has reached the first in China, the world's leading level.
