"The Dutch province of Flevoland occupies an area that only 60 years ago formed part of the Zuider Zee. Large sections of this bay in the North Sea have been drained, and many new towns have been created on the reclaimed land, including Lelystad in 1967; but one has come nowhere near achieving the target population of 120,000 defined at that time. Large areas in the centre of Lelystad remain undeveloped, and in this rather desolate environment, the new Agora Theatre was built as the first stage of an extensive revitalization programme, based on a master plan by West 8. The clear cubic forms of the 19-metre-high fly tower and the two auditoriums are concealed beneath a prismatically folded metal skin."