If all goes as planned, Taiwanese pop will get an expansive home where musical culture meets high design. Construction is expected to begin in 2012 on Taipei Pop Music Center, a $110-million entertainment complex envisioned by Reiser + Umemoto RUR Architecture, with engineers from Arup Associates.
The team’s competition-winning design for a difficult 823,000-square-foot site in Taipei places three main structures on two separate pieces of land, which will be connected by a broad new walkway built over an existing road. “In a sense, it’s really a piece of the city,” says Jesse Reiser, one of the firm’s founding principals along with Nanako Umemoto. “We deliberately bridged the two sites, and created an elevated public ground to connect all of the elements.”
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