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SANAA wins Taichung City Cultural Center competition

2013-09-11T15:43:00-04:00

The highly popular Taichung City Cultural Center International Competition in Taiwan just announced its much anticipated list of winners, and it's the Pritzker Prize-winning team of Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA with local partner Ricky Liu & Associates to snatch the top honors.

SANAA's winning ensemble of playfully arranged white, translucent boxes beat out designs by the four other recently shortlisted teams including Peter Eisenman Architects, Jean-loup Baldacci, MASS STUDIES and Stücheli Architekten.

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Taichung City Cultural Center Entry by Patrick Tighe Architecture

2013-07-22T17:02:00-04:00

Here's another entry to the recent Taichung City Cultural Center competition in Taiwan (previously on Bustler). This submission was designed by Southern Californian firm Patrick Tighe Architecture, currently featured at MOCA's exhibition A New Sculpturalism, Contemporary Architecture from Southern California.

Taichung City Cultural Center Entry by Tom Wiscombe Design

2013-07-15T19:00:00-04:00

We keep receiving a steady stream of design entries to the Taichung City Cultural Center competition in Taiwan [...], some of which we have already been able to publish. Today's entry was designed by LA-based studio Tom Wiscombe Design.

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Taichung City Cultural Center Entry by OXO Architects + Nicolas Laisné Architecte Urbaniste

2013-07-11T14:52:00-04:00

French firms OXO architects and Nicolas Laisné Architecte Urbaniste have sent us "TCC Garden," the team's joint entry to the Taichung City Cultural Center competition in Taiwan

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Taichung City Cultural Center Entry by KAMJZ

2013-06-24T16:00:00-04:00

Polish architecture & urban design firm KAMJZ has sent us its very intriguing entry to the Taichung City Cultural Center competition in Taiwan (previously on Bustler). The scheme is a collaborative effort together with Buro Happold.

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Taichung City Cultural Center Entry by Architecton

2013-06-10T17:34:00-04:00

Since announcing the five shortlisted finalists to Taiwan's Taichung City Cultural Center competition last week, we have been receiving a steady stream of further competition entries from around the world. Here's one from Moscow-based firm Architecton which moves the "Gate" metaphor to the core of its design concept.

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Taichung City Cultural Center Entry by Sériès et Sériès

2013-06-04T16:07:00-04:00

French-Californian practice Sériès et Sériès has shared with us its entry to Taiwan's Taichung City Cultural Center competition [...]. The design team's engineering partner was Buro Happold.

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Taichung City Cultural Center Entry by Maxthreads

2013-06-03T19:42:00-04:00

Five teams have recently been shortlisted as stage one winners in the international architecture competition for the design of a new City Cultural Center in Taichung, Taiwan. Taichung, after the merger of Taichung City and Taichung County the third largest city in Taiwan, established this competition to distinguish itself from the other major Taiwanese cities, Taipei and Kaohsiung.

The five shortlisted teams are:

Stücheli Architekten AG / Mathis Tinner (Switzerland)
MASS STUDIES / Minsuk Cho (South Korea)
Eisenman Architects, PC / Peter Eisenman (USA)
Jean-loup Baldacci (France)
SANAA / Kazuyo Sejima (Japan)

The jury will announce the stage two results at the end of August.

Following is the entry to the Taichung City Cultural Center competition we have received from Scottish practice Maxthreads Architectural Design and Planning.

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UPDATE: SANAA wins Taichung City Cultural Center competition