[Coyett]

Project: Taipei Performing Arts Center - 臺北藝術中心
Details: one 1500 seat theater + two smaller 800 seat theaters
Location: across from Jiantan MRT Station
Completion: 2013
Website: www.tpac.com.tw

Taipei invites architects to theater design contest

CULTURAL LANDMARK: The city is holding a contest for top architects to design a theater to provide local artists with a venue for shows that run for three to six months
By Mo Yan-chih
STAFF REPORTER
Friday, Jul 25, 2008, Page 2

Taipei City Government said yesterday it would invite world-renowned architects to join a competition to design a world-class theater near Shilin Night Market that would serve as a venue for large and long-running performances.

The 2.2-hectare Taipei Performing Arts Center will be built on Chengde Road across the Jiantan MRT Station. It will house a 1,500-seat theater and two smaller 800-seat theaters, Taipei City’s Department of Cultural Affairs said.

Hoping to make the center a distinctive cultural landmark on a scale similar to the National Theater and the National Concert Hall, Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) said the city would allocate NT$4.3 billion (US$140 million) for the project and begin an international design competition to find the best design by next year............. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/07/25/2003418450


Competition short list

*Morphosis Architects / Thom Mayne
*Abalos + Sentkiewicz Arquitectos
*Office for Metropolitan Architecture(OMA)

other entries:
http://bustler.net/index.php/article/taipei_performing_arts_center_competition_entry_by_architects_collective/
http://europaconcorsi.com/projects/78850-Taiwan-performing-art-center

[Coyett]

Final Evaluation

1st - Office for Metropolitan Architecture (Rem Koolhaas)
2nd - Morphosis Architects / Thom Mayne
3rd - Abalos + Sentkiewicz Arquitectos

I'll try to post some images of the winning design later today!

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f355/chung68/taipeicenterfortheperformingarts.jpg
image: UDN

http://www.xuexue.tw/events/package/images/20090122art_01.jpg
http://www.xuexue.tw/events/package/images/20090122art_02.jpg
image: xuexue

[metroXpress]

Is this approved or just in the planning stage? It sure looks crazy!

[Razqal]

OMG, i cant believe rem koolhaas designed that!! i would've thought a taiwanese local designed it. i think that's a terrible design and a complete eyesore!!! what's with that wooden extension and big white blob sticking out the side like a pimple waiting to burst? i hope they cancel that and start a new competition. or at least knock out that wooden extension and blob shape and keep it a simple glass cube.

[Australiasian]

from what taiwan ren wrote. i dont think whatever we are seeing above is the winning design.

[metroXpress]

from what taiwan ren wrote. i dont think whatever we are seeing above is the winning design.


Agree because this is what taiwan ren said:


I'll try to post some images of the winning design later today!


But he did edit his post:

Last edited by taiwan ren : 01-23-2009 at 05:34 AM.


PLEASE TAIWAN REN>>>WE NEED MORE UPDATES :)

[Razqal]

point is i can't believe rem koolhaas designed that. he's done some really nice work so i dont know how he came up with that design.

[Australiasian]

point is i can't believe rem koolhaas designed that. he's done some really nice work so i dont know how he came up with that design.

i dunno who designed that thing. but it sure looks like shit.

[williamchung taiwan]

I like this design because they really try to make up the gap between night market and art center.
The night market is usually dirty and crowed. It is the place for plebeian, it's part of Taiwanese culture. So it has a big gap between this two.

[ed21x]

actually that makes alot of sense. This structure would look decent in the context of a ton of artistically designed buildings and glistening glass skyscrapers. Put it in Xinyi, DaAn, Neihu, Sun Moon Lake, or next to the Nangang exhibition hall, but definitely not Chien Tan where it will look completely out of place.

[metroXpress]

Will the thing be built at the site of the temporary night market in Shi Lin??
It's crowded there and I don't think that massive structure would suit that location??

[Razqal]

that IS the winning design and it IS designed by rem koolhaas!!! i can't believe it!!! even when a famous international award winning foreign architect gets hired to design something in taiwan - WHICH IS REALLY RARE - he designs something real atrocious!!


OMA to build Taipei Performing Arts Centre

Rotterdam/Beijing, 27 January 2009 - The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been awarded the first prize in the design competition to build the Taipei Performing Arts Centre. The design, led by OMA partners Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, was selected from over 135 entries from 24 countries by an international jury.

http://www.e-architect.co.uk/taiwan/taipei_performing_arts_centre.htm

http://www.e-architect.co.uk/taiwan/jpgs/taipei_performing_arts_centre_oma270109_1.jpg

[williamchung taiwan]

that IS the winning design and it IS designed by rem koolhaas!!! i can't believe it!!! even when a famous international award winning foreign architect gets hired to design something in taiwan - WHICH IS REALLY RARE - he designs something real atrocious!!


OMA to build Taipei Performing Arts Centre

Rotterdam/Beijing, 27 January 2009 - The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been awarded the first prize in the design competition to build the Taipei Performing Arts Centre. The design, led by OMA partners Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren, was selected from over 135 entries from 24 countries by an international jury.

http://www.e-architect.co.uk/taiwan/taipei_performing_arts_centre.htm

http://www.e-architect.co.uk/taiwan/jpgs/taipei_performing_arts_centre_oma270109_1.jpg


How about this picture,
the project with city view around it.
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj12/williamchung7/Taipei%20city/549335237_taipei-ai-screen3.jpg

[Australiasian]

i think taiwan has got enough match boxes man... having a ball attached to it doesn't really make it any better. but i do like the idea of integrating the night market with the centre by having kiosk stands right next to it.

[metroXpress]

Take away the ball and add something else....the ball just
makes the crowded place even more crowded!!!

*HINT READ MY SIGNATURE....REDUCE PLEASE:) *

[ed21x]

eh? the ball makes it look a whole lot more interesting. If we just reduce it to a cube, it would not have any distinct character. Now that wooden add-on...:yuck:

[Australiasian]

eh? the ball makes it look a whole lot more interesting. If we just reduce it to a cube, it would not have any distinct character. Now that wooden add-on...:yuck:

i think u missed the whole point...

[metroXpress]

Are you guys sure that this is the final design??

[ed21x]

i think u missed the whole point...

you mean the point about using the wooden box to integrate the arts center with the environment? yeah, I can kind of see where its coming from, but it simply clashes with the cube itself. If they really wanted this building to integrate with the environment, maybe they can redesign it along the lines of what the Chien Tan station looks like... a sort of modernized motif of traditional Chinese architecture along the lines of Kris Yao.

[Australiasian]

you mean the point about using the wooden box to integrate the arts center with the environment? yeah, I can kind of see where its coming from, but it simply clashes with the cube itself. If they really wanted this building to integrate with the environment, maybe they can redesign it along the lines of what the Chien Tan station looks like... a sort of modernized motif of traditional Chinese architecture along the lines of Kris Yao.

no mate. the point about the match box design. personally, i think we need to see more "radical" designs (it's pretty much a norm nowdays everywhere else... bloody hell...) on the island. more curves perhaps!? i love bilbao's guggenheim museum. would like to see designs like it in the future!?

[metroXpress]

no mate. the point about the match box design. personally, i think we need to see more "radical" designs (it's pretty much a norm nowdays everywhere else... bloody hell...) on the island. more curves perhaps!? i love bilbao's guggenheim museum. would like to see designs like it in the future!?

I agree with you that the bilbao's guggenheim museum is such a great piece of work!

[SpeedoPro]

is that the new taipei natural gas co. head quarter?
not a fan of this at all. it reminds me of one of those giant spherical gas storage tanks... ugh :yuck:



http://www.cimtas.com.tr/Products/image/Spheri60.jpg

[williamchung taiwan]

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj12/williamchung7/Taipei%20city/Taipei%20%20Performing%20Arts%20center/3281151876_27a0f8a9e3_o.jpg

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj12/williamchung7/Taipei%20city/Taipei%20%20Performing%20Arts%20center/3281152026_5302140ec8_o.jpg

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http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj12/williamchung7/Taipei%20city/Taipei%20%20Performing%20Arts%20center/3281152372_24c7f26ed2_o.jpg

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj12/williamchung7/Taipei%20city/Taipei%20%20Performing%20Arts%20center/3281152544_09fc39e069_o.jpg

[mountsac]

i guess the interior of the dome-shaped theater looks kind of interesting.

[cclo]

I wish they will use many projectors to project pictures, videos or whatever stuff onto the exterior of the sphere in the night to make it the world largest (maybe?) spherical display. Then that will be interesting.

[metroXpress]

^ agreed.

Is this the finalized plan?