Koolhaas’s OMA to Design Taipei Performing Arts Center

Published: January 29, 2009

A model for OMA's Taipei Performing Arts Center

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TAIPEI—Rem Koolhaas's Office for Metropolitan Architecture has won a competition to build the Taipei Performing Arts Center, reports World Architecture News. The project, led by Kolhaas and Ole Scheeren, calls for a 40,000-square-meter (430,560-square-foot) theater complex that is budgeted at TW$3.8 billion (US$112.8 million) and is expected to be completed in 2013.

The design encompasses three theaters — two that seat 800 and one that holds 1,500 — all of which feed into a central cube clad in corrugated glass that unites their stage accommodations so that the theaters can be used separately or in combination. A public path inside the cube exposes parts of the backstage area, which is hidden in typical theaters, and the cube is placed on a pedestal in order to preserve the existing local food market on the site.

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