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The Jeddah Opera House is designed by Henning Larsen with Buro Happold, for Jeddah Central Development Company, on the Red Sea waterfront, and it is under construction. Buro Happold describes it as the first opera house in the Kingdom. The form is drawn from the alleys, markets and barahat of Al-Balad: smaller blocks on the city side, and a clearer composition on the sea side. The materials are coral stone and wood, with layered mashrabiyas that form different rawasheen. It has three flexible halls, the largest an opera theatre of 1,500 seats. In your view, can the spirit of Al-Balad succeed in a building the size of an opera house?
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