Floating Hanoi Opera House featured on foreign media platforms
VOV.VN - Following the groundbreaking of the Floating Hanoi Opera House, Classic FM, the UK’s leading classical music radio station and news site, has featured the project and highlighted its potential to become a new cultural landmark in Vietnam.
Classic FM described the floating opera house, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with PTW Architects, as the Isola Della Musica (‘island of music’ in Italian). The building, located on a purpose-built island between West Lake and Dam Tri Lake, has been designed to echo a rippling shell, inspired by the oysters once found in the area.
The main complex will house an 1,800-seat opera hall and a 1,000-seat conventional hall, with the designers describing the structure as “conceived as a deep study of mathematic models existing in nature and not just as a formal gesture,” Classic FM wrote. The opera house is scheduled for completion in 2027. The new area covers nearly 44.1 hectares and is set to host a cultural and arts park, a city theatre, religious facilities, recreational zones, and service and accommodation areas.
Classic FM also praised Renzo Piano, the designer behind many of the world’s most impressive buildings, including The Shard in London, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art.
Meanwhile, Domus, the prestigious Italian architecture and design magazine, hailed Hanoi’s floating opera house as a new disruptive architectural gesture of “hybridisation” between technology and genius loci, between engineering and poetics. The magazine confirmed that the project positions Hanoi as an active participant on the international cultural stage.
Archilovers, an international network for architects and designers, described the opera house as a suspended architectural pearl, inspired by the mother-of-pearl of freshwater oysters, a material deeply rooted in Vietnamese craft culture. “From every shore, the building reveals itself as a luminescent sculpture, alive with light and reflections,” it wrote.
Work starts on Hanoi Opera House near West Lake
A groundbreaking ceremony for the Hanoi Opera House and Thematic Cultural and Artistic Park project was held in Tay Ho ward on October 5 by the Hanoi People’s Committee, marking the beginning of one of the capital’s most ambitious cultural developments in decades.
