LinxiaGrand Theater is located in the core area of ??planned new town in LinxiaCity, Gansu Province. It covers an area of ??52,300 square meters and has a ground floor area of 15,000 square meters and a total building height of 46 meters.

In the architectural design, simple geometric sphere with unique recognition is adopted, together with the classic proportion of patterns and texture. However, it is undoubtedly necessary to enlarge such a refined and figurative shape into a public building of 90 meters in diameter and 46 meters in height, which has brought huge challenges to the designer. How to reflect the pattern texture and form proportion but also to avoid concretization is the first biggest challenge faced by the designer.

Integrate modern design techniques into this traditional body, and leave a contemporary architecture with strong ethnic characteristics to the local people has become the designer’s design purposes.
After thinking over and over again, the designers abandoned the “simple” and expensive solution of the traditional metal curtain wall to realize the geometric texture of the dome. Through continuous efforts, The cross-section steel beams are welded to each other to “weave” the overall spatial structure of the dome “texture,” similar to the “Bird’s Nest” structure of the National Olympic Sports Center. Shell structure, curtain wall structure and curtain wall texture are combined into one, sa...