Taipei Performing Arts Centre

Various Architects have been asked by the Office of Metropolitan Architecture to join their team of architects as consultants on their competition winning Taipei Performing Arts Centre (TPAC) project in Taiwan. The project will be run from a newly established OMA office in Hong Kong, lead by David Gianotten. The Hong Kong office will also be working on several other projects, including the masterplan of the West Kowloon Cultural District and the Shenzen Stock Exchange.

Partner Ibrahim Elhayawan from Various Architects will be the project leader of the OMA team, and will work closely with Rem Koolhaas and the OMA team to develop the 40,000m2 theatre in Taipei from competition scheme to the definitive design phase. VA partner Jim Dodson will also join the team as an advisor for three two-week periods in Hong Kong during the next year. Various Architects were approached by OMA due to our extensive experience with complex cultural projects and theatres, something we look forward to further extending in Hong Kong.

The TPAC contains a 1500 seat theatre and two 800 seat theatres, which can be connected together in many configurations via an innovative and flexible stage arrangement. We are extremely excited to be a part of the OMA team on this bold theatre project and look forward to our collaboration over the next year.

For more information about the project refer to the OMA project page.

All images by OMA / Frans Parthesius© All rights reserved.

Facts

STATUS:	Detail Design
CLIENT:	Department of Cultural Affairs
SITE:	Taipei, Taiwan
SIZE:	40,000 m2

Credit

TEAM:	Ibrahim Elhayawan, Jim Dodson
PARTNERS:	Lead Architect: Office of Metropolitan Architecture Local Architect: Artech SMEP & Fire, Sustainability: ARUP Theatre Consultants: Ducks Scéno, France Acoustics: DHV

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Various Hong Kong Adventures

Ibrahim heading back to Oslo in January

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Friday, May 14, 2010

Taipei Performing Arts Centre Update

OMA delivers Preliminary Design Phase

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Monday, October 26, 2009

VA in Hong Kong and Taipei

Jim visits Ibrahim in HK for workshops with OMA

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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Various Architects to Hong Kong

Consultants on OMA's Taipei Performing Arts Centre

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