A new landmark in Taiwan and Asia’s most significant cultural development of 2022,
the OMA-designed Taipei Performing Arts Center opened to the public on Sunday,
August 7 in Taipei, Taiwan.
The new center was officially opened In a ceremony this afternoon,
Taipei Mayor Koo Wen-ji opened the Taipei Performing Arts Center (TPAC),
The project is considered the most important cultural development in Asia in 2022 and a new landmark for the capital of Taiwan.
The ceremony was attended by dignitaries including TPAC President Liu Royu,
and CEO Austin Wang and architects Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).
The concert was immediately followed by an opening concert featuring the world premiere of Taiwanese composer Nan – Chang Xin’s Symphony No. 5 “Taipei” performed by the Taipei Symphony Orchestra.
OMA/Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten completed the Taipei Performing Arts Center in May 2022.
Commissioned by the Taipei City Government to promote the development of the arts,
the project was completed by a global team of renowned architecture practice OMA,
Led by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotin,
in collaboration with local architecture firm KRIS Yao ARTECH,
The engineering firm Arup and Landscape, an interior designer and indoor-outside drapery.
A building that offers new opportunities for theater makers
Three traditional theaters have been put together in such a way as to offer theater makers entirely new opportunities to visualize scenes and performances.
Consisting of three theaters around a central cube, the center invites the street life of the city into place.
While the 800-seat spherical theater is dedicated to the theatre, called the Globe Playhouse,
it looks like a planet anchored to a cube.
The other volume is the 1,500-seat Grand Theatre, providing space for a variety of performing arts.
Opposite and on the same level is the 800-seat multiformat theatre.
Which is called Blue Box, and is used in most demo presentations.
When combined, the two theaters became the 2,300-seat Super Theatre, a massive exhibition space.
Equipped with facilities to meet the most challenging pyrotechnic requirements of contemporary theatre,
the spaces have been specifically designed to offer new theatrical opportunities.
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