(i dont know if there's a thread for this. there is one in skyscraperpage.com. if there is, moderator please combine this with it.)

i think this submission is the best. i like the organic shapes; very aquatic-looking and fits the theme of a marine concept yet very "clean" looking. by Sun & Schrempp Associates. i hope they win it!!!

http://www.archdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/1288738370-07-performancehalls-view-1000x606.jpg

http://www.archdaily.com/86402/kaohsiung-competition-proposal-sun-associates/03_largeperformancehall_01/

http://www.archdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/1288738360-05-largeperformancehall-plan.jpg

http://www.archdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/1288738377-09-market-02.jpg

http://www.archdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/1288738358-04-largeperformancehall-interior.jpg

http://www.archdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/1288738347-01-birdseye.jpg


btw, what a stupid name!! why combine a 'maritime culture' with 'pop music'? they arent at all related!!!! and why do taiwanese always conjure up such weird, long names? like 'taiwan taoyuan international airport. why not just call it taoyuan int'l airport? and why does everything have to have a 'municipal' in the front? it sounds so bureaucratic!!!

That's an awesome design... I like how it incorporates the sea channels and rivers by bridging over them instead of seeing them as an obstacle that limits the building to just the piece of land that its core is built on. Seems like Kaohsiung is doing pretty well with turning its industrial waterfront into a recreational one.

Btw only the first and last pictures show up.

i see them fine on my end. it's probably your ghetto computer.

The design is really god, but these is just a proposal, they are not in the Shortlist for the final stage. I hope the winner will be as good than these, or better. We can find many proposal for the competition on Internet, but
i think that we will just see the shortlist proposal at the end of the competition. 2011/01/18

really really excellent design! such a project would make kaohsiung looks like kobe or yokohama...

Love the Design! but hate the land reclaimation idea :(

流音中心競圖 西班牙團隊勝出 2011.1.19


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西班牙建築設計團隊Manuel Alvarez Monteserin Lahoz，擊敗全世界一百四十多件作品，獲得高
雄海洋文化流行音樂中心優先議價權。設計團隊於獲獎後在作品前留影。（記者黃旭磊攝）


〔記者黃旭磊／高雄報導〕我們終於做到了！三十歲西班牙建築師Lain與女同事相擁而泣，慶祝拿下高雄海洋文化流行音樂中心國際競圖，獲得總工程經費約四十三億九千五百萬元優先議價權。該中心預定民國一百零三年底啟用。

評委認為 最能掌握高雄民眾特性
決選公佈儀式昨下午於國賓飯店國際廳舉行，入圍前五名的台、日、美及瑞士團隊進場，氣氛緊張。由建築師劉培森（台塑創辦人王永慶前女婿）領軍的日商Akihisa Hirata團隊與西班牙隊伍Manuel Alvarez Monteserin Lahoz戰到最後兩名。日籍評審主席佐藤滋說，九位委員看法各不同，最後一致通過西班牙團隊最能掌握高雄民眾特性。

佐藤滋說，從一百四十七件作品脫穎而出，相當不易，西班牙團隊就是掌握了高雄城市特質。 Lain Satrustegui坐在第一排，得知獲獎後，先與女同事Beatriz相擁而泣，隨後振臂大聲叫好。他用一口標準國語說，台灣特有夜市文化，符合高雄人性格，高雄人過動，最喜歡的公共空間是夜市，特別將此文化融合進建築。

在台代表華業建築師事務所建築師徐沛津表示，外國人眼中，高雄人在夜市裡最能放鬆，以逛夜市心情進出流行音樂中心就對了。至於外界關心搖滾樂吵到緊鄰的苓雅區住宅，他表示，全建築像個波浪，向海開闊，噪音都到海面，市區面以隔音牆阻擋，並採樹狀綠建築設計，像個花盆，回收雨水，下有植栽。

工程基地位於高雄港邊，西臨漁人碼頭、南接新光碼頭，完工後至少有三千五百席室內表演廳，及一萬兩千席戶外表演場，預計每年有五百多場藝文音樂演出，帶動三十七萬四千四百多個人次進場。
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Kaohsiung Maritime & Pop Music Center

First Prize

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I can't see anything night market-ish in the design.

let see how that will be in real....:(

that will be a bitch to clean. i doubt any taiwanese will want to wash that building! :lol:

How the hell did that win....i like the idea in the first post better :(
oh what the hell....the first prize looks like someone freaking made a building out of toothpicks
ohhh wowwwww
what the hell?
and there's no tower to the first prize too
this disappoints me.

Kaohsiung Maritime & Pop Music Center

First Prize

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i almost feel like big giant bees should be flying out of those honeycombs. :nuts:

weeeeelllllll...........at least it's not covered with bathroom tiles. :tongue4:

I think we need understand the context instead of just looking these renderings.

context is that this is a condo for taiwanese giant killer bees!!!! :lol:

Kaohsiung Maritime & Pop Music Center

First Prize

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Actually i take it all back. It doesn't look so bad now. :)

Kaohsiung Maritime & Pop Music Center

First Prize

3D Animation (3D 動畫)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnFEPc82TkA&feature=player_embedded


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The video is amazing :)
I hope this gets built :)

It looks like a project that is hard to maintain...especially those greening roofs.

Taiwanese don't know how to maintain.

Central Park Station
Just opened:
http://blog.xuite.net/larsea/box/16113524
or
http://taiwan319.blog.shinobi.jp/Entry/374/

Now:
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/5313/180fo.jpg

It looks like a project that is hard to maintain...especially those greening roofs.

Taiwanese don't know how to maintain.

Central Park Station
Just opened:
http://blog.xuite.net/larsea/box/16113524
or
http://taiwan319.blog.shinobi.jp/Entry/374/

Now:
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/5313/180fo.jpg


hmmm....it doesnt look that bad. just that the grass looks kinda wilted. and flowers dont all match up. but the pic is kinda blurry so i cant tell. i think they should plant real flowers instead of using those big plastic ones, like low-maintenance flowers, plants and shrubs.

The video is amazing :)
I hope this gets built :)

i REALLY dont like it after watching the video. for one thing, the music is awful. i closed it before even finishing it.

i imagine all those metal bars in the structure just rusting in the sea air and from taiwanese' renowned lack of care for maintenance. and this looks like an incredibly high-maintenace complex. how will the window cleaners clean those mismatched uneven windows in the tower? when architects design a building they should keep in mind how practical it is to maintain it.

So you want something that doesn't require any maintenance? Like a Soviet style concrete box?

They'll maintain it or be forced to do so if it's a landmark that means something to the local government. Does Taipei 101 look nasty after all these years? How about the Tuntex tower or the two shiny glass buildings next to it?

So you want something that doesn't require any maintenance? Like a Soviet style concrete box?

They'll maintain it or be forced to do so if it's a landmark that means something to the local government. Does Taipei 101 look nasty after all these years? How about the Tuntex tower or the two shiny glass buildings next to it?

YEP (Y)
most landmarks in taiwan are maintained. So rest assure ;).
It would not end up like all those depeleted pieces of conrete houses that look like crap. It is run by the government therefore probably well maintained.
:banana:KAOSHIUNG PORT IS GONNA BE SO SICK

So you want something that doesn't require any maintenance? Like a Soviet style concrete box?

They'll maintain it or be forced to do so if it's a landmark that means something to the local government. Does Taipei 101 look nasty after all these years? How about the Tuntex tower or the two shiny glass buildings next to it?

no, but a soviet style GLASS box is much preferable!!

taipei 101 and tuntex towers are much easier for window washers to clean since they pretty much have flat glass cladding. i can imagine those uneven walls on the sides of the tower for this design will be very difficult for window washers to cling onto.

but whatever, my main point is this design sucks compared to the other designs!!

no, but a soviet style GLASS box is much preferable!!

taipei 101 and tuntex towers are much easier for window washers to clean since they pretty much have flat glass cladding. i can imagine those uneven walls on the sides of the tower for this design will be very difficult for window washers to cling onto.

but whatever, my main point is this design sucks compared to the other designs!!
TRUES BUT i don't think it's bad either.

It looks like a project that is hard to maintain...especially those greening roofs.

Taiwanese don't know how to maintain.

Central Park Station
Just opened:
http://blog.xuite.net/larsea/box/16113524
or
http://taiwan319.blog.shinobi.jp/Entry/374/

Now:
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/5313/180fo.jpg

I don't see that much difference.. I visited there recently and I thought the station was beautiful! very clean and well maintained. Same can't be said about some older building around it.

http://www.archdaily.com/107583/kaohsiung-maritime-cultural-pop-music-center-competition-winner-made-in/

Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural & Pop Music Center Competition winner / MADE IN28Jan 2011By Sebastian J — Filed under: Awarded Competitions ,Cultural ,Museums and Libraries , Kaohsiung, MADE IN, Taiwan

Courtesy of MADE IN

The Spanish architecture firm MADE IN have won the Maritime Cultural & Pop Music Center International Competition in the city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. You can see more images and architect’s description after the break.


Courtesy of MADE IN

This project proposes a responsible urbanism based on the heterogeneity of the program, on the urban porosity and on the adaptability to the different situations and events.

We didn´t want an intervention that was working only in moments of concerts and festivals, we wanted a fabric that was forming a part of the day after day of the city offering daily spaces to the habitants of Kaohsiung.

The project develops along a bay in an extension of more than 11 hectares, meeting different situations of contour, which do that the action divides in three differentiated zones:


Courtesy of MADE IN

- Zone 1: in this zone there is articulated the Outdoor Performance Area (for 12 000 persons) the Large Performance Hall (5000) and the Pop Music Exhibit Area that is a continuous element that finished off by two towers, one of 113 meters of height and the other one of 83 meters.

- Zone 2: in this area we implement the stipulated program by the organization placing a night market, who supposes the form of leisure most extended in Taiwan, and that guarantees the activity in the bay during every day of the year. The Marine Culture exhibit area goes through this zone to 6 meters of heights, and is conceived as a “promenade” between the different pavilions and with the sea always present in the skyline.


Courtesy of MADE IN

- Zone 3: this zone of longitudinal character connect to two important poles of attraction, the new station of ferrys in the southern part, and the new night market in the northern part. In this area, we create different streets: a gallery covered with cultural activity, from which you access to 8 Small Performance Halls (200-400 persons), a maritime walk to level +8 that has a different gardens of water, and a great walk of 10 meters rail bicycle.

The symbolic nature of this project isn´t in the fact that the towers could look like a waves, or that the intervention remember a seascape,no, we want that the project gets this character for the use that the people of Kaohsiung does of him, and for how the projects gradually gradually is incorporated in to the city as a place full of life and of possibilities of use and enjoyment.

補充一張塔樓圖片 25層 113米
Added a 25-storey tower 113 meters photo


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When is this planned for completion?

When is this planned for completion?


預計明年動工，2015年完工

Is expected to start next year, completed in 2015
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i really dont like this design. it looks so messy looking with all those structural brackets and bars. but i guess it's better than bathroom tiles or grey concreted. :/ i hope the actual completed building looks better than the rendering.

i really dont like this design. it looks so messy looking with all those structural brackets and bars. but i guess it's better than bathroom tiles or grey concreted. :/ i hope the actual completed building looks better than the rendering.

Well i like this but I would prefer glass like structure etc instead of organic designs.
But it's alright at night it looks amazing.
And its a great improvement to the kaoshiung harbor
I think taiwan likes alot of organic designs as winners....ex: taichung opera house.

I prefer organic designs, they're the next wave of architectural trends. Geometric glass buildings are already all too common around the world to stand out. We want architecture that sets Taiwan apart and gives it unique character, not just make it look like any other city in the world.

That's the problem with many US cities, none of their downtown areas have buildings that really stand out compared to those in other cities, with the exception of a few landmarks that pioneered construction technology. And they're all either shaped like a cylinder or a tall rectangular box.

I prefer organic designs, they're the next wave of architectural trends. Geometric glass buildings are already all too common around the world to stand out. We want architecture that sets Taiwan apart and gives it unique character, not just make it look like any other city in the world.

That's the problem with many US cities, none of their downtown areas have buildings that really stand out compared to those in other cities, with the exception of a few landmarks that pioneered construction technology. And they're all either shaped like a cylinder or a tall rectangular box.

This is true but it's going to get a while for people to get use to organic buildings :P
We are so use to seeing glass buildings....ah

i like organic designs too but this design for the maritime music center is not the best of them.

LOVE IT!