Cairns表演艺术中心标志着昆士兰远北地区丰富文化生活的新开端。Cairns表演艺术中心（简称CPAC）是议会带领发起的“The Precinct”项目的核心建筑，项目包括表演艺术中心、热带公园和圆形剧院。新建设施包括一个有940个座位的主剧场和一个有400个座位的空间，技术设备完善，可供世界顶级表演者使用，同时建筑也维持在一个适宜社区使用的规模大小。

▼Cairns表演艺术中心外观，the exterior view of the Cairns Performing Arts Centre

Cairns Performing Arts Centre marks a rich new beginning in the cultural life of Far North Queensland. CPAC sits at the heart of a Council-led initiative entitled The Precinct, consisting of the performing arts centre, tropical parkland and amphitheatre. The new facility contains both a 940-seat main theatre and a 400-seat space, is technically equipped to support the world’s best performers but maintains a scale appropriate to community use as well.

▼立面采用幕板调节内部光线，screen wraps around the building mediate light conditions

▼建筑具有热带地区特征，design celebrates the tropical character

建筑师的设计以如下原则为基础：建筑必须具有包容性， 能够融入Cairns这个多样且充满活力的社区；必须具有灵活性，满足多种社区和专业方面的用途；技术设备方面必须能够吸引一流的表演活动；建筑必须经济合理，新设施需要能够增加地区收入，降低投入成本。

From the outset, our plan for the project was underpinned by the following principles: the building must be inclusive and welcoming to Cairns’ diverse and vibrant community; it must be flexible, allowing a range of community and professional uses; it must be technologically appropriate to ensure that it attracts the best acts; and it must be economically sound, creating new facilities that would increase revenue and thereby help to offset capital costs.

▼从门廊仰视剧院空间，look up to the theater under the verandah

▼出挑屋檐提供荫凉的过渡空间，the overhanging roof provides shadow for the transitional space

▼立面细节，facade detail

在视觉和功能方面，建筑本身回应了所在的热带气候。门廊般的大厅空间模糊了内部与外部的界线，在街道层塑造了一种充满活力的感觉。引人注目的幕板包裹着建筑，强化了它的公共形象，幕板能够帮助协调极端的光线条件同时营造大厅的光影游戏。它的设计象征着整个昆士兰远北地区所生产的漂亮的Dilly袋子和传统工艺编织的渔网。

▼大厅在街道层塑造了一种充满活力的感觉，the foyer creates a feeling of dynamism at street level

Visually and functionally, the building inherently responds to its tropical surrounds. Verandah-like foyer spaces blur the edges between inside and out and create a feeling of dynamism at street level. A visually striking screen wraps around the building, enhancing its civic presence, helping to mediate extremes in light conditions and create a play on light in the foyer. Its design alludes to the beautiful Dilly bags and fish nets produced in traditional weaving across Far North Queensland.

▼门廊式的前厅模糊了室内外界线，verandah-like foyer spaces blur the edges between inside and out

这座新建筑突显了所在的热带地域位置，也展现出文化设施在社区生活的重要性。Cairns表演艺术中心由Cox Architecture与CA Architects合作设计。

The new building celebrates its enviable tropical location and acknowledges the importance that cultural facilities play in the life of a community. CPAC was designed by Cox Architecture in association with CA Architects.

▼剧场空间，the theater space

▼设计草图，design sketch

Completion date: 2018