
The auditorium is a fixed rake rectangular box with very long straight rows of seats. The double skin end walls of sinuous corrugated glass provide acoustic enclosure and dramatically distorted views to the outside.
Koolhaas may have designed some of the most challenging, controversial and critically acclaimed ultramodern buildings of the past decade - Seattle public library, Casa da Musica in Porto, the Dutch embassy in Berlin - yet I can't help thinking that, for all the excitement of working with CCTV, his heart belongs to a world closer to Beijing's hutongs, something altogether more exotic.
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