TAIPEI POP MUSIC CENTRE

A cultural hub dedicated to music where nature and architecture blend.

Project data

  • Status
    Competition
  • Year
    2009
  • Tipology
    Music center
  • Location
    Taipei, Taiwan > map
  • Client
    Department of Cultural Affaire Taipei City Government
  • Budget
    82 million € (adjusted to 2013)
  • Total Area/Surface/Volume
    35.000 sq m

Description

The project attempts to bring unity to the disordered existing skyline by skilfully mixing the architectonic characteristics of a large-scale project and the environmental and landscape peculiarities which characterise the site.

Even outside Europe the architect never renounces that typically Italian lesson of “knowing how to make cities”.
A “green mantle” covers all the buildings of the project, linking them to the existent environmental system in the context by attempting at the same time to build a recognizable place on the urban scale.

The TPMC becomes a real urban magnet capable of being a powerful icon, a new landmark for Taipei

– Ermanno Ranzani –

Credits

COMPETITION: 2009

Architect
Mario Bellini Architects

Design Team
Mario Bellini with Maurizio Di Lauro

Project Team
Maurizio Di Lauro (project architect)
Luca Borsetti (3D model and render image)
Roberta Totaro
Lia Silvia
Sonia Cucci
Camilla Guerritore
Stela Beiko
Alessandro Zufferli (3D model and render image)
Corrado Matarazzo (3D model and render image)