Andres Gallardo, a self-taught photographer from Spain, captures the poetry and theatricality of MAD Architects' Harbin Opera House in a series of photos which display the building's undulating ...

The mind-bending ice sculptures at Harbin’s annual winter festival may have put the northern Chinese city on the map. But this year, it’s the new Harbin Opera House that’s stealing the show. From ...

This stunning opera house recently opened in the northern Chinese city of Harbin, and somehow evaded China's ban on "weird architecture"—and we're glad it did. For some reason opera houses tend to be ...

Braving temperatures as low as -22°F, Iwan Baan is no stranger to shooting in the extreme. Armed with his camera, tripod, and Canada Goose Parka, the esteemed Dutch architectural photographer has ...

MAD won the international open competition for Harbin Cultural Island in 2010, with the opera house masterplan as the focal point of the development. The 79,000-square-meter building is embedded ...

The fluid form of the building is wrapped in smooth white aluminum façade panels and appears as a snowcapped mountain topped with shining ice and snow inspired by the local winter. The building, ...

MAD Architects' Harbin Opera House remains one of its most impressive projects to date and the firm has just revealed another striking project for the same region that also riffs on the bitterly cold ...

China may have recently put out a ban on "weird architecture," but this stunning opera house, recently opened in the northern city of Harbin, has evaded the ban. Following in the tradition of iconic ...