This is an aireal view of the building, which has two connected parts.
This building is located in Singapore and was completed in 2002. One half of the building is a concert hall, and the other half is a theater. The complex also includes an outside complex. It also holds Singapore's first arts library on the third floor.
It cost 600 million Singapore dollars to build, but was well worth the investment. It has a huge variety of programs, displays, concerts, etc. The theater holds 2000 people in four levels, but all the seats are within 130 ft. of the stage! The concert hall holds 1,600 people. The concert hall is one of only six other concert halls in the world with the state-of-the-art acoustics that are integrated in the concert hall.
When the design of the building was revealed to the public, it had no sunshades, just a glass facade. People did not like this idea, and when the building was built, it incorporated the sunshades that are so distinctive:
Most people said that with the sunshades, the buildings looked like "durians"; a fruit native to Singapore. Here is a picture of one:
There is quite a good resemblance.
This building has become one of the most popular buildings in Singapore.
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