There are,of course,a whole host of reasons why one architect may be selectedover another for a project.But it seems fitting that Jean-Marie Charpentier and histeam won the bid to design the new Shanghai Opera House.
For music is truly in his blood."My grandfather,Gustave Charpentier,was a famous musician and composer (Louise,the senior Charpentier's 1900 operatic work,was performed around the word,from Paris to Vienna)."explained 47-year-old Charpentier,whose firm Jean-Marie Charpentier & Associates is among the leading architects in France.
"And my father in an architect who has never stopped prctising music.For the past 50 years,he has continued to direct an orchestra that he founded as an architecture student at the Beaux-Arts school in Paris."

Needlessly to say,Charpentier himself is a composer and keen piano player.
So the opening of the US $ 150 million opera house,scheduled for July 1,will be a particularly significant moment for Charpentier."This will be the most important moment in my life."he siad,speaking from his newly -opened office in Hong Kong.
"This project represents the synthesis of two passions:architecture and music."
It all began with the Shanghai Municipality's decision to construct a luxurious modern new building that would be a fitting showcase for the opera in the city that is the economic powerhouse of China.
Just as New Yourk's Metropolitan Opera has the Lincoln Centre,the thinking goes,so Shanghai must have an appropriate venue for its opera company.
A modern temple to operatic arts,the new opera house is to be a vision of glass and steel measuring 114 metres high,100 metres long and 90 metres wide.
That vision is taking shape in Puxi,the old section of the city close to the Bund,set in the middle of the People's Park.
In fact,the building was conceived as an Asian pavilion in a park,with a spacious,open layout and a raised temple-style roof,explained Andrew Hobson,a member of Charpentier's design team.Unlike in traditional strctures,the new opera house is desighed for interaction with the passing public.
Normally,all one could expect to see woulde be a glimpse of an elegant crowdleaving or arriving for performances
Not so with the Shanghai Opera House.

小星辛苦了 我会慢慢看的~

哇...是纯手打的耶.!!!...上海歌剧院..

纠正小星的一个错误0 0第3段第4行,New York.

深儿撒西不理~~【抱抱】
诶嘿，无聊的时候抄篇英语课文
哦哦，打错了对不起啊呜

www.g .cn ← 复制粘贴到这里翻译下 有的翻译不出来的是小星姐姐的小毛病呦~ 辛苦了呢~~
小星撒西不理~~

诶嘿，谢谢深儿这么热心的阅读呢。。。。谢谢~~

唔嗯……好厉害呀

不用谢 .. 应该感谢的是小星那么认真地为外语馆作出贡献.~!

恩啊。。谢谢深儿。。。啊呜。

于是继续后半部分