Recently, Taiwan held a competition for a Performing Arts Center in the city of Taipei.

The main purpose of this project is to build a Performing Arts Center to serve a variety of large-scale performances, including dramas and operas. The main structure will contain three theaters: a 1,500-seat Grand Theater, and two 800-seat theaters for repertory performances. These performance spaces must fulfill the specific needs of many different styles of performing arts. The Taipei Performing Arts Center will be a professional-level facility that meets international standards, providing a world-class performing arts venue for the Taipei area.
For the past two decades, there hasn't been one performance venue built in the Taipei area that meets international standards. Local performing arts groups must submit proposals at least one and half years prior to performance, to be wait-listed for the National Theater or National Concert Hall, and often these performance spaces are unavailable to many groups. In addition, after 20 years of operation, the facilities of National Chiang Kai-shek Cultural Center are worn out and somewhat unreliable.
The aim of this project is to establish a world-class professional performing arts center for arts lovers, whether they are creative artists, performers, or audiences. Moreover, the center will foster arts education, support arts commerce and employment, and improve the standard of living from the artistic perspective.

Architects from all over the world submited their work and the winners were:

1. Number: Morphosis Architects / Thom Mayne
Nationality: USA

2. Number: Jose Ignacio ABALOS, Spain
Joint Tenderer: Renata Sentkiewicz, Spain
(ABALOS+SENTKIEWICZ ARQUITECTOS)

3. Number: Office for Metropolitan Architecture(OMA) STEDEBOUW B.V / OLE SCHEEREN, Netherlands

Their proposals are not known yet, still, here are some other participations:

V.L.B.
(This is the proposal from my atelier...)






One remarkable competition entry that didn’t make it among the top 7 is this proposal by Vienna-based Architects Collective:




DOSarchitects


Mafredi Nicoletti (former teacher of mine during my Erasmus year in Rome)