The Lyric Theatre, Wales Millennium Centre

摘要

INTERNATIONAL competitions were held in the summer of 1996 to select a design team for the 33,000m~2 Wales Millennium Centre (WMC), which will act as host to eight resident cultural and arts organisations, the best known being Welsh National Opera. But it took almost six years to bring the project to site, a period of almost continuous re-design in order to reconcile ambition with budget and to give the funders and tenants the confidence that the business plan was robust and sustainable. Construction began in February 2002, steel erection began in May 2002 and the topping out ceremony was held in March 2003. Completion is scheduled for September 2004. The brief for the auditorium required it to be used for opera, ballet, large scale dance, musicals and variety, with as secondary uses: children's musical theatre, comedy and large scale concerts.