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Building: Nanjing Performing Arts Center
Location: Nanjing, China 
Completed: 2009
Architect: Preston Scott Cohen, Amit Nemlich, & Atelier Zhang Lei (Chinese Architect of Record)

AE Interests: Concrete roof made from a series of hyperbolic paraboloids which act as reinforcing beams. The buildings are separated into several independent zones that can be isolated thermally if not in use.    

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