Toyo Ito's National Taichung Theater on Display

Toyo Ito at the theater construction site. Displaying architecture in a gallery is always a challenge. This is especially true with a building still under construction. And even more so when that building is Taiwan’s National Taichung Theater—unarguably Tokyo architect Toyo Ito’s most ambitious project to date. Taking Ito’s structural know-how and spatial ingenuity to new limits, this extraordinary complex appears as a rectangular block. But contained within is a spectacular 3D grid of tubular voids hinted at by the hourglass-shaped cutouts that define the elevations. Expanding and contracting, the hollows accommodate the various programmatic pieces, including a 2014-seat theater,



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1.architecture  建築
2.unarguably  無可爭議
3.ambitious   有雄心
4.rectangular  矩形
5.tubular   管狀的
6.programmatic  綱領性

who:Toyo Ito
when: no mention
what:Theater
where: Taichung
why:no mention
how:contained within is a spectacular 3D grid of tubular voids hinted at by the hourglass-shaped cutouts that define the elevations.