The document provides details about the Palais Garnier opera house in Paris, including a site plan, floor plans showing areas like the grand foyer and staircase, stage, and comparison of interior volumes. It also discusses the metal construction, classical Beaux-Arts design features like arched windows and doors, symmetry, statuary, and subtle use of color that characterize Garnier's architectural style.

1. Paris Opera House
Palais Garnier

2. Site Plan

5. Orientation

10. Opera House Plan

18. Grand Foyer

19. Grand Staircase

20. Stair Well

25. Stage

28. Comparison of Volume

30. Metal Construction

33. Form

34. Entrance for The Emperor

35. Characteristics of Beaux arts
• Flat roof
• Hierarchy of spaces, from "noble spaces"—grand
entrances and staircases— to utilitarian ones
• Arched windows
• Arched and pedimented doors
• Classical details
• Symmetry
• Statuary,
• Classical architectural details
• Subtle polychromy

36. References
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_Garnier
• Architecture 13 of 23 Charles Garnier The
Opera Garnier youtube
• A global history of architecture by francis D. K
ching
• A history of building types by Nicolaus Pevsner