In an unusually pop-oriented press conference held on Friday January 29th, 2010 in Taiwan, it was announced that the Reiser + Umemoto – Arup team had won the design competition for Asia’s first pop music performance center. The winning design challenges the rigidity of traditional performance space and, proposes an innovation anti-theatre typology solution.
The project brings together Arup’s integrated theatre and acoustics team with Architects and Landscape Architects Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto, as well as local renowned local architect firm, Fei and Cheng. With the Taipei Pop Music Center, the design team has fundamentally reinvented the concept of a live music, entertainment and pop production center to meet the challenges and opportuni¬ties of Asian pop music and digital media in the 21st century. The winning design was noted as being more than just the world’s first dedicated pop music centre, as it will serve as a cultural Mecca for Taiwanese and Asian culture and as a place where everyday life can really unfold for young people in the city and region. Read more at Reiser-Umemoto Architects
The project brings together Arup’s integrated theatre and acoustics team with Architects and Landscape Architects Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto, as well as local renowned local architect firm, Fei and Cheng. With the Taipei Pop Music Center, the design team has fundamentally reinvented the concept of a live music, entertainment and pop production center to meet the challenges and opportuni¬ties of Asian pop music and digital media in the 21st century. The winning design was noted as being more than just the world’s first dedicated pop music centre, as it will serve as a cultural Mecca for Taiwanese and Asian culture and as a place where everyday life can really unfold for young people in the city and region. Read more at Reiser-Umemoto Architects
Port and Cruise Service Center (RUR)
Kaohsiung
Southern Taiwan, ROC
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Winning Entry, Two-stage Open Competition
Scheduled Construction, 2014
Type: Pop Music Center (ARUP)
Structure: Multiple
Scheduled Construction, 2014
Type: Pop Music Center (ARUP)
Structure: Multiple
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The Taipei Pop Music Center features a gradient of mixed-use spaces, from the fully public realm to the interior of the auditorium, allows the visitor to partake of the event dynamic however they choose to visit this complex. Whether they plan a night of music or are browsing the myriad shops, markets, cafes, and restaurants, the complex will be a 24-hour attraction independent of the schedule of performances in the theaters. The TPMC features a new elevated public ground, which bridges the two building sites presently divided by Xinsheng Rd. Corridor. The elevated public space is a pedestrian zone creating a coherent public space distinct yet connected to the life of the city, and effectively joining the three major zones of the complex, the Main Concert Hall, Outdoor Amphitheater, and the Hall of Fame. The public space is in itself a focus for outdoor events, surrounded by cafes, restaurants and shops. Here, the spectacle of pop music can be celebrated and broadcast to the world. Read more at Reiser-Umemoto Architects
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The work of New York-based architects Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto is increasingly attracting international praise. In the words of Daniel Libeskind, their work is ‘inspiring … characterised by an inventive constellation of amazing objects which raise questions about the chaotic disorder of institutionalised arrangements. This monograph focuses on recent works of Reiser + Umemoto which convey the freeing of geometry brought about by the extensive use of the computer within architectural design. The authors are significant exponents of this genre of innovative work, and in this book provide invaluable insight into recent developments in architectural theory and design. Andrew Benjamins essay, ‘Opening Resisting Forms, provides a comprehensive exposition of Reiser + Umemotos most recent work, elucidating the significance of their projects in wider cultural and philosophical terms. Among the projects covered in depth are their proposals for the Cardiff Bay Opera House, Yokohama Port Terminal, Kansai Library, and a Water Garden in Columbus, Ohio, for which the practice won a Progressive Architecture Award for Visionary Design in 1998. In addition, the book combines a portfolio of Reiser + Umemotos built projects with the writings of the architects themselves, thus illuminating what Reiser + Umemoto term the ‘horizontal relationship between theory and practice.
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