Nelum Pokuna - The Lotus Pond

Sri Lanka constantly had a enormous quantity of playwrights and stage drama actors and actresses. What they brought in front of us normally took us into the quite imaginary worlds and feelings of the writer with no any difficulty. The performing arts sector often had the shortage of a effectively equipped and properly "technically fortified" theatre for their practices, rehearsals, and for grand scale occasions which necessary the service of state of the art sound systems, sophisticated lighting systems and a considerable quantity of seating facilities. In other words, we did not have a location to be referred to as the crown jewel of performing arts, till the Lotus Pond was opened on the 15th December 2011, for the Sri Lankans.

The Lotus Pond, or the common Sinhala Translation; "Nelum Pokuna" was an thought of the President Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa. The notion was to construct a theatre to suit all the above pointed out demands of the performing arts sector. The objective of presenting and exchanging the performing arts of Sri Lanka with other nations and nationalities was also in the priority list. The Lotus Pond is the realized dream that will bring the performing arts sector to new heights and open doors to newer paths and variations of the sector quickly.

The visible structure is equivalent to a lotus of 5 petals in bloom. The building of the theatre was a breakthrough in the Sri Lanka real estate improvement sector and Sri Lanka engineering technologies. The Lotus Pond was a outcome of Sri Lanka and China friendship plan which reached the cost height of three.eight million Sri Lanka rupees upon completion. The Exclusive style somewhat resembles the Opera Residence Australia or the Bird's nest China itself was a design and style of the Beijin Institute of Architectural Styles. China supplied with 2.four million Sri Lanka rupees out of the comprehensive price.

The building began in the year 2006 and the land utilised for the theatre was the former Nomad ground on at No.110, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07 and took 4 years to comprehensive. The theatre was opened by the President of Sri Lanka, Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse and the China's Vice President of the Chinese Republican Committee, Sang Chiang.

The construction has 2 floors under the ground and 5 floors above the ground. The theatre covers an location of 15562 square meters and the most important auditorium delivers seating capacity to 1228 spectators. The theatre is also loaded with rehearsal rooms, 2 extra stage performing halls, a library and an open air stage has to seating capacity for about 3 hundred spectators on the major floor.

Till this was constructed, the real estate developers under no circumstances knew that a thing like this was ever probable in the nation. It is clear that this masterpiece will unquestionably uplift the performing arts sector of our nation as effectively as the Real estate improvement.

Lotus pond theater has taken Sri Lankan real estate values to larger level.with the improvement of this enormous theatre Sri Lankan Home developments has taken up to a greater step