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OMA's Taipei Performing Arts Center officially opens

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Led by Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten , the project comprises three theaters: a spherical 800-seat Globe Playhouse, a 1,500-seat Grand Theater, and an 800-seat Blue Box, connected to a central cube. Image © Shephotoerd Co. Image © Shephotoerd Co.

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Rem Koolhaas designs Taipei Performing Arts Center to "contribute to the history of the theatre"

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Commissioned by the Taipei City Government in 2009, the 59,000-square-metre cultural landmark has a distinctive form with three auditoriums protruding from a central cuboid volume. Theatre has a very long tradition," said Koolhaas. "We Here in Taipei, we were able to combine three auditoria in a particular way," he continued. "We

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Taipei Performing Arts Center by OMA officially opens in Taiwan

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Occupying a site next to Taipei's popular Shilin Night Market, the 59,000-square-metre performance venue was opened by the city's mayor, Ko Wen-je, on Sunday 7 August. Taipei Performing Arts Center (TPAC) has a distinctive appearance with multiple fronts, which OMA formed by plugging three theatres into a central glass-clad cube.

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Five key projects by architect and Dezeen Awards judge David Rockwell

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New York architect David Rockwell has joined Dezeen Awards 2023 as a judge. Here, he selects five projects that best reflect his studio's work. Projects spanning "theatre, hospitality and the public realm" "Working in the theatre has been an incredible training ground for strengthening my own capacity for empathy," said Rockwell.

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World's 47 most outstanding designs shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2023

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The 46 shortlisted studios , which are in the running for awards in nine different design project categories, are located across 18 different countries including Israel , Czech Republic , Norway , New Zealand and the Netherlands. Dezeen Awards 2023, in partnership with Bentley Motors , will reveal all shortlisted projects this week.

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Cionic Neural Sleeve named best innovation as Dezeen Awards design winners revealed

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Cionic Neural Sleeve has won Dezeen Awards 2023 design project of the year following the announcement of all nine design category winners , which were revealed at this evening's ceremony. It was also named product design (health and wellbeing) project of the year.

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Taipei Performing Arts Center by OMA

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An ancient art form for civic participation, theater has evolved into the modern world as a vocation of the culturally refined, with its significance in daily life diminished. Theater space is valued for its potency for formal cultural productions, rather than its power to include and divert, and to be instantaneous.

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