Xiqu Centre Opera House - The Grand Theatre

The 1100-seat auditorium is designed to host Cantonese Opera and visiting touring productions. Flip was the team leader for this project as Head of the UK office for Fisher Dachs Associates (FDA), working closely with Revery Architecture (formerly Bing Thom Architects) and Ronald Lu & Partners Hong Kong. The project included a powered flying system, a double orchestra pit lift and seating wagons. As the first venue for WKCDA's cultural district, the brief for this project was to provide international standard theatre systems to a high-quality. In addition to the 1,100-seat main theatre the project also included a traditional Tea House Theatre, rehearsal studios, and educational spaces. Flip's work on the backstage planning for this project contributed to enabling an unusual feature for an arts centre design: The auditorium is elevated to the 5th floor allowing for a ground level plaza which greets patrons as they enter the centre with the principle auditoria being located above.