摘要: |
Aiming to foster the development of arts and culture, the Taipei City Government Department of Cultural Affairs commissioned a series of arts and cultural projects across Taiwan, with the Taipei Performing Arts Center as its most recent endeavor. The winning design, developed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture with support from Arup, was selected from a total of 135 entries from 24 countries at the climax of a two-stage international design competition held in 2008. The project broke ground in 2012, and the grand opening was held in August, marking the conclusion of a complex 10-year construction timeline. The TPAC is in Taipei's Shilin District, near its famous Shilin Night Market and the Jiantan transit station. The 58,000 sq m complex includes three theaters - the Grand Theater (1,500 seats), the Blue Box multiform theater (800 seats), and the Globe Playhouse (800 seats) - that "plug" into the southern, northern, and eastern faces, respectively, of a 12-story, 55 m tall central cube. The steel-fabricated cube houses backstage facilities, lobbies, offices, rehearsal rooms, and workshop spaces for the theaters. The western face features four towers housing elevators, administrative offices, and other back-of-house operations. |