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Chongqing People's Hall is another landmark building of the municipality
completed in April 1954. Covering a total area of 66 thousand square
meters, the complex structure consists of an auditorium and three
accompanying storied buildings. The auditorium is 65 meters high and
has a seating capacity of 4200. Chongqing People's Hall is a
symmetric building modeled on the famous Tiantan, or the Temple of
Heaven in Beijing. It has long been hailed as a masterpiece oriental
structure. And History of Comparative Architecture, an authoritative
book on architecture published in 1987, rated the hall as one of the
43 representative Chinese structures. |
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