Renzo Piano Building Workshop Designs Curved Concrete Opera Hall Rising from Hanoi’s West Lake

Construction starts on Renzo Piano’s “floating” Hanoi opera house - Global Construction Review

Work has started on the Isola Della Musica, a “floating” opera house on Hanoi’s West Lake, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop and Australia’s PTW Architects. The structure will be formed of a ribbed catenary concrete shell covered with ceramic tiles of various sizes to create a pixelated effect inspired by the shells of West Lake’s mother-of-pearl oysters. The outer ceramic tile skin acts as a rain screen, while the inner concrete struc…

Renzo Piano Building Workshop Designs Curved Concrete Opera Hall Rising from Hanoi’s West Lake

Isola Della Musica Opera and Convention hall by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Render. Image Courtesy of RPBW Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW), in collaboration with Sydney and Hanoi-based PTW Architects, has begun construction of the Isola della Musica, a new opera house and convention center in Hanoi, Vietnam. Commissioned by Sun Group, the project was first conceived in 2017 and forms part of a broader masterplan that reshapes the existin…