New Mariinsky Theater
Aerial view of New Mariinsky Theater
The appearance of this reasoned geometry creates an architectonic articulation with the different architectural styles of surrounding streets. This difference in architectural writing qualifies the building’s front and back, brings it closer to the Mariinsky across the way, and settles it into the urban fabric with a facade on the plaza, the canal and the streets.
Main Hall of New Mariinsky Theater
The contact with the existing opera is not merely visual, it is also physical: with this catwalk coming out of the golden shell “plugging into” the historical facade on the other side of the canal. Thus, with this project we drill a deep link between the foyer of the old and new opera houses is drilled, allowing one to submerge and then emerge into the other. This disposition respects the historic perspective of the St. Nicholas church and preserves the landscape of the canal.
New Mariinsky Theater - View from the Krykov canal
Axial longitudinal section and West elevation
Golden shell detail of New Mariinsky Theater
Plaza of New Mariinsky Theater
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