Kaohsiung Perfomance Arts Center, Kaohsiung - Taiwan
[International Competition, 2006]

In order to bring into balance the discrepancy between north and south Taiwan, the competition brief calls for a design of a professionally theatre of international stature. The new complex is to accommodate the various existing forms of theatre but also the performing styles of Taiwan, and to interconnect the National Kaohsiung Performing Arts Center with other national as well as with international performing institutions. Implied in the brief and upon initial considerations, the following further aims will be explored with this proposal:
- participate in the redevelopment of the great Kaohsiung Metropolitan area by transforming the city through culture and leisure
- integrate the project of the National Kaohsiung Performing Arts Center as part of the city´s green belt connecting the North and South greens, thus putting the mountains and sea in relation to each other
- offer diversified activities in the Weiwuying Metropolitan Park, and serve as an attraction equally for tourists and citizens of Kaohsiung
- establish a new centre for theatre arts that will be of national and global importance, creating a recognizable architectural icon
- frame the theatre and lyric complex as a monument in the city, and enhance visibility of site in the overall skyline of Kaohsiung
- address the specific issues of site – such as accessibility, subdivision, disposition of usages, historical conservation of existing buildings, buffer area to highway, air filters, and other micro-climatic issues.

Architect: M. Stankovic + T. Jortzick [Marina Stankovic Architekten BDA]