AN has learned of a fire at Guangzhou Opera House, in Guangzhou, China. The project, designed by Zaha Hadid with a web-like exoskelton, includes an 1,800-seat theater as well as a multipurpose hall and support facilities. Guangzhou, located at the mouth of the Pearl River in China’s southwest, is the capital of the Guangdong province, better known in the west as Canton.

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