Poorly Executed: Grand Hall with Bad Seats

The appearance of a bad design: a magnificent lobby with terrible seating. A space demonstrating errors: the foyer is three stories high, covered in marble and crystal chandeliers, but upon entering the auditorium, the floor is flat, sightlines are blocked by columns, the back rows are over forty meters from the stage, and the reverberation is so long that dialogue is unclear. A theater's budget should first be spent on its cross-section and acoustics. Avoid: treating this image as a positive example, drawing structural columns in the auditorium, making the seating area flat without elevation, assuming that the degree of decorative grandeur equals the quality of the theater.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個示範錯誤的空間:前廳挑高三層、大理石與水晶燈鋪滿,一進到觀眾席卻是平坦的地板、視線被柱子擋住、後排離舞台超過四十公尺、殘響長到聽不清台詞。劇院的錢應該先花在斷面與聲學上。避免:把這個畫面當成正面示範、在觀眾席裡畫出結構柱、讓座位區平坦沒有升起、以為裝飾的華麗程度等於劇院的品質。