Taipei Performing Arts Center
Cube-shaped theater complex with three auditoriums, including a sphere-shaped playhouse, cantilevered outward.
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This guide to the Taipei Performing Arts Center starts at a bowl of night-market hotpot, the odd image architect Rem Koolhaas says shaped a cube punctured by three theater pods overlooking Shilin Night Market. You'll hear about the sphere-shaped playhouse locals nicknamed after a local snack, and about the decade-long build that saw a main contractor collapse into bankruptcy owing over two billion Taiwan dollars. Stand back across the street from the market to take in the whole cube at once.
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