National Centre for The Performing Art in China
- The National Centre for the Performing Arts is located in the heart of Beijing. The main construction is the unique shell shape, 46.68 meters high, and the only one of its shape in Asia.
- The exterior of the theater is a titanium accented glass dome that is completely surrounded by a man-made lake, it consists of 18398 pieces of titanium plates and 1226 pieces of super white glass.
- It is covered with 18,000 titanium plates and integrated with more than 1,000 sheets of ultra-white glass. The titanium shell is divided into two by a curved glass curtain, gradually widening from the top to the bottom, where it measures 100 m in width.
- Due to its form, the building is called “The Giant Egg”. The whole project started in December 2001. After more than five years of construction, it was finally completed in September 2007.