New York-based RUR Architecture has completed the Performance Hall at the Taipei Music Center (TMC). The new hall, which spans 756,000 square feet, is the first of three structures that will form the 22-acre complex in Taipei’s Nangang District. The facility is set to open Saturday, September 5th with its first concert. “Taipei Music Center functions as a discrete urban organism within the natural landscape, an urban peninsula connected to the city yet independent and extending beyond it into nature,” says RUR principal Jesse Reiser.
Equipped to host indoor and outdoor performances, the 6,000-seat Performance Hall is wrapped in a faceted double skin of anodized aluminum cladding and an inner gypsum wall layer. The expansive geometric complex is conceived to echo the nearby mountainous terrain, while interiors boast state-of-the-art technology from acoustics to lighting.
Also designed by RUR, the onsite exhibition hall—known as the Cube— comprises a range of exhibition spaces, collection storage, and facilities for research, lectures, and archives. The creative area building, or Music Industry Shell, is also developed to house production facilities. An elevated public ground bridge stretches from north to south to link all three structures. Facilities on the southern side of the campus are projected to debut by mid-2021.
