Chuvash State Opera and Ballet Theatre. biggest contrast i've ever seen between a building's architecture and purpose. I think it's a funny bit to represent the grace and elegance of ballet and opera by dropping down a giant slab of concrete. 📸Oleg Konstantinov
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Gorgeous building, and fascinating! I'd love to see the inside. I was reading a bit about 'inward facing' structures recently, and while brutalist buildings aren't entirely that, the fact that outside is only vaguely decorative always makes me want to see the insides.
It's the folks inside the spaces that matter!
Wildly speculating but I suspect, weirdly, what we're actually seeing here is the architecture reflecting the purpose in a way that most theatre buildings disguise. A lot of big theatres were built so that large painted backdrops could be raised and lowered on ropes and swapped over so you could have multiple different backdrops in the same show or in different shows if you have more than one show running concurrently – and for that you need part of the building to be very tall (so that the backdrops can be lifted all the way up out of sight) and quite big (so all the spare backdrops can be stored in the upper part) and windowless (so the light doesn't filter down and mess with the stage lighting). So a massive windowless tower is very much something that makes sense as theatre architecture! But we aren't used to seeing it because theatres aren't traditionally built to reveal how they work but to support the suspension of disbelief that happens inside by looking like palaces or temples.
