An airy pavilion

PAX Architects as Architects

The proposal for the Polish Royal Opera reveals the building as a gentle light structure enclosed by tall old trees in one of Warsaw’s historical parks.

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KVANT1
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An airy pavilion-like structure lightly sits in the green park - its soft shape allows park and building to mediate. The foyer space is organized as a fluid space all around the façade, which creates a welcoming building connecting with the park. The curved shape of the building embraces the park and creates green pockets along the façade, thus visitors of the opera, as well as the public, can enjoy and use the venue.

– A democratic gesture in the park.

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KVANT1
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KVANT1

The new Polish Royal Opera is envisioned as a spectacle, where nature is the performance, and the building is its set. The design not only serves as a response to the demands for a ”state of the art” opera, but equally to its unique natural and cultural surrounding landscape. Working within the terminology of classical music, the proposal offers a structure as airy as an aria, and as persuasive as an obbligato in relieving the principal demand for chamber, symphonic, and opera performances. Mindful of the lush environment that surrounds it, the design creates a stage for dynamic interactions, where history meets the future, culture intertwines with society, the park converges with the city, and people, art, and nature come together to form a deeply immersive and elevated experience.

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KVANT1
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KVANT1

In offering a space for modern performances where paramount technology co-exists with the historical setting at a unique site in the city of Warsaw, the new opera building presents an opportunity to endow the city with a contemporary symphony of greenery, history, and artistry. It is an opera and monument in a singular form that grants a new space with state-of-the-art performance facilities and a green public realm for the city and for people visiting from afar.

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KVANT1
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KVANT1

At its essence, the proposal is a celebration of opera as a timeless art form, rejuvenated through innovative design with the purpose of cultivating a platform for cultural enrichment and excellence, organically emerging amidst the lush green landscape and effectively translating the essence of opera into a physical structure. A building that in its form is in reverence of the past whilst existing for the future, opening the grand drapes for the cultural scene to each and every one.

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