The Taipei Performing Art Center, TPAC was designed by NL Architects

The design which could be considered to a table with ‘four legs’ supports a ‘tabletop’ that accommodates 3 storeys.

Inside you’ll find an elevated fragment of the city, a public browsing space where cultural facilities such as a multimedia library, music stores, galleries, lobbies, bars, restaurants and clubs will be included.

The public character of the center is guaranteed by the elevation of a substantial part of its program, creating a public square underneath it. As such the square becomes part of the building inside of it.

The Taipei Performing Art Center structure contains three theaters, including a 1500-seat Grand Theater, and two 800-seat theaters.

Although critics praised the aesthetics, they noted two critical issues: acoustics would be disastrous and the lack of sun for several of the cubes.

In the end, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) won the competition to build the Taipei Performing Arts Center.

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