Barbican Centre Barbican Centre is owned, funded, and managed by the City of London Corporation, the third-largest arts funder in the United Kingdom. It was built as The City's gift to the nation at a cost of £161 million (equivalent to £480 million in 2014) and was officially opened to the public by Queen Elizabeth II on 3 March 1982. The Barbican Centre is also known for its brutalist architecture. The second-floor library is one of the five City of London libraries. It is one of the largest public libraries in London and has a separate arts library, a large music library
Hainan Centre for the Performing Arts Hainan Centre for the Performing Arts The Hainan Centre for the Performing Arts () is located at 68 Guoxing Avenue in Haikou, Hainan, China. The entire facility is 25,000 m, with an 8,253 m auxiliary space, and an actual theatre space of 2,657 m. The venue can accommodate up to 1,230 people. The cost of construction was 200 million yuan. The facility is one of three large, cultural infrastructure projects constructed around the same time on Guoxing Avenue alongside one another, the others being Hainan Provincial Museum and Hainan Provincial Library. In September 2010, the theatre was completed in, and