Cidade das Artes

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Cidade das Artes
Aerial view of the Cidade das Artes

Aerial view of the Cidade das Artes

Data
place Rio de Janeiro
builder Christian de Portzamparc
Construction year 2003-2013
Floor space 90,000 m²
Coordinates 22 ° 59 '56 "  S , 43 ° 21' 57"  W Coordinates: 22 ° 59 '56 "  S , 43 ° 21' 57"  W

The Cidade das Artes (City of the Arts) is an event complex in the Barra da Tijuca district of the city of Rio de Janeiro , Brazil . It was designed by the French architect Christian de Portzamparc and inaugurated on January 3, 2013 after 10 years of construction.

location

The Cidade das Artes is located roughly in the middle of the Barra da Tijuca district, on the northern part of the traffic junction at which the Linha Amarela in the north, or the Avenida Ayrton Senna in the south and the Avenida das Américas intersect. The Alvorada terminal is located on the southern part of the transport hub and can be reached on foot through a tunnel under Avenida das Américas das Cidade das Artes. From the terrace you have a panoramic view of the surrounding mountains of Rio de Janeiro, the skyscrapers and the shopping centers Barra Shopping of Barra da Tijuca, the beach Praia da Barra da Tijuca and the tropical park Bosque da Barra to the west .

history

Western ramp, stairs to the terrace

The construction of the Cidade das Artes began in 2003, and the building should be inaugurated at the end of 2004. The estimated cost should be around R $ 80 million . At the beginning the building should be called Cidade da Música (City of Music). After around 10 years of construction, the building was finally opened on January 3, 2013 with the musical Rock in Rio - the musical . The construction costs amounted to about 508 million R $. Even on the day it opened, the building was only 95 percent complete.

The building was criticized by the public for a long time, as the opening from December 26, 2008, which had already been postponed several times, was finally postponed to January 3, 2013 and the expenditure exceeded the planned framework by more than a factor of 6. Furthermore, the planned location was a point of criticism, as there should be a subway station nearby. The nearby Alvorada terminal only has city bus and Transcarioca - Bus Rapid Transit connections. The closest metro station is currently Jardim Oceânico , from which the BRT bus goes to Alvorada.

building

The Cidade das Artes is a reinforced concrete structure. Two large horizontal concrete slabs form the ground floor and the roof. Two ramps and a few stairs lead to the terrace. This is interspersed with a multitude of raised spaces and large curved fins leading downwards. According to the architect, the ten meter high public terrace of the Cidade das Artes is a construction on which a small town with numerous different buildings is housed. Access to all facilities of the Cidade das Artes is possible from the terrace.

Furnishing

Open terrace facing east
Different "buildings" on the terrace

Today the Cidade das Artes is the headquarters of the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra, the large hall with up to 1,222 seats is the second largest room for classical concerts, musicals and operas in Latin America, after the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires .

  • Land area: approx. 95,000 m²
  • Built-up area: 87,403 m²
  • Great Hall (Grande Sala): 1,222 seats
  • Chamber theater (Teatro de Câmara): 439 seats
  • Electroacoustic room (Eletroacústica)
  • Multi-purpose hall I (Sala I): 234 seats
  • Multi-purpose hall II (Sala II): 144 seats
  • Media library
  • Three movie rooms
  • reading room
  • Dance hall
  • Practice rooms
  • Galleries
  • Gardens and open water areas
  • terrace
  • Coffee of the Arts
  • 738 own, chargeable parking spaces

park

View of the tropical water garden below the building

Around the Cidade das Artes there is a public park with landscaped paths and interconnected oval water areas that also extend under the building. The two ramps that lead down from the terrace end in the park. The park was designed as a tropical water garden by the Brazilian landscape artist Fernando Chacel .

Web links

Commons : Cidade das Artes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cidade das Artes abre venda antecipada para 'Rock in Rio - o musical' (City of Arts opens VVK for Rock in Rio - the musical)
  2. ↑ Cidade da Música é liberada para dois concertos (Cidade da Música is released for two concerts)
  3. ↑ Mesmo inacabada, Cidade da Música é inaugurada no Rio (Also opened unfinished Cidade da Música in Rio)
  4. ^ Christian de Portzamparc's Cidade das Artes adds curving concrete fins to the Rio skyline
  5. ^ Cidade Das Artes, Atelier Christian de Portzamparc
  6. ↑ a b c d Cidade das Artes - Informações Tecnicas (Technical information)