The Bolshoi Theatre Restoration Nearing The End
Source: https://www.construction.am
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The historic hall of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia will reopen its doors to public on October 28 with gala-concert, which will broadcast in 600 cinemas around the world. Bolshoi Theatre closed for long-planned reconstruction on July 2, 2005. Renovation was scheduled to be completed in 2008, but it was clear that the contractor could not meet the deadline.
The Bolshoi Theatre was waiting for reconstruction for more than 115 years. The primery objective was to move the building to the new base, as the former was destroyed and builders were afraid to start any work. The building stood on oak piles, which have alredy been destroyed. During current renovation rotting wooden piles were removed, and now the building stood on 7 thousand steel piles.
After new base appeared main contractor built an impressive underground portion, therefore the total floor area of the theatre doubled from 40 to 80 thousand square meters. On 5 floors of underground part of complex will be situated lifting, lowering and rotation gears of the stage, the scenery automatic feeding/moving devices, a chamber and rehearsal halls.
According to spokesman of main contractor "Summa Kapital" Mikhael Sidorov, the main result of reconstruction was recovery theatre's XIX century acoustics. To do so, the main hall is made more freely - now there are 1740 seats instead of 2100 the cement floor of the main hall was removed and the orchestra pit and so on.
Now underway a second stage of desalting columns of the main facade of the Bolshoi Theatre, aimed to secure the historic original ivory color of the stone.
The Bolshoi Theatre was waiting for reconstruction for more than 115 years. The primery objective was to move the building to the new base, as the former was destroyed and builders were afraid to start any work. The building stood on oak piles, which have alredy been destroyed. During current renovation rotting wooden piles were removed, and now the building stood on 7 thousand steel piles.
After new base appeared main contractor built an impressive underground portion, therefore the total floor area of the theatre doubled from 40 to 80 thousand square meters. On 5 floors of underground part of complex will be situated lifting, lowering and rotation gears of the stage, the scenery automatic feeding/moving devices, a chamber and rehearsal halls.
According to spokesman of main contractor "Summa Kapital" Mikhael Sidorov, the main result of reconstruction was recovery theatre's XIX century acoustics. To do so, the main hall is made more freely - now there are 1740 seats instead of 2100 the cement floor of the main hall was removed and the orchestra pit and so on.
Now underway a second stage of desalting columns of the main facade of the Bolshoi Theatre, aimed to secure the historic original ivory color of the stone.
