Diller Scofidio + Renfro completes riverside Tianjin Juilliard School in China
Four steel and concrete pavilions linked by glass bridges make up the Tianjin Juilliard School, which New York studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed in northeastern China.
The 32,500-square-metre performing arts institution next to the Hai River in Tianjin is the branch campus of the Juilliard School in New York, which Diller Scofidio + Renfro also created.
Like its US counterpart, the Tianjin Juilliard School has a mix of performance and teaching spaces, alongside communal areas and large portions of glazing that offer glimpses inside.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed the Tianjin Juilliard School
"Our design for the new Tianjin Juilliard School takes much of its DNA from Juilliard's New York campus, which we completed in 2009," said Charles Renfro, the studio's partner-in-charge. "Both projects seek to increase engagement with the public through openness and transparency; offer informal spaces for students to mix and gather, and provide teaching and performance spaces with world-class acoustics."
It is divided into four pavilions linked by bridges
The four pavilions that make up the Tianjin Juilliard School contain a 690-seat concert hall, a 299-seat recital hall and a 225-seat black box theatre, alongside offices and rehearsal spaces.
They are linked together by the five glass bridges, which span a 2,260-square-metre, column-free foyer at the heart of the building.
It is clad in stainless steel and concrete
Externally, these pavilions re...
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