Sent every Tuesday and containing a selection of the most important news highlights. Plus occasional updates on Dezeen’s services and breaking news. Sent every Thursday and featuring a selection of the best reader comments and most talked-about stories. Our most popular newsletter, formerly known as Dezeen Weekly. SANAA's proposal features a series of irregularly stacked blocks wrapped in translucent mesh, while MAD's convention centre comprises a cluster of mountain-like buildings with pleated surfaces. Japanese architecture studio SANAA and Beijing architects MAD have also designed cultural centres for the city of Taichung. The six-storey building also includes rehearsal rooms and a restaurant. The 58,000-square-metre complex hosts three theatres – one with a capacity for 2,000, another with 800 seats and the smallest with room for an audience of just 200. The building's unusual form is made up from curving components covered in a layer of unifying shotcrete – sprayed concrete.
"I aimed to create the architecture of this opera house in such a way that the inside and outside are continuous in a like manner to how bodies are connected to nature through organs such as the mouth, nose, and ears," explained Toyo Ito. Related story Klein Dytham builds latticed community hall for Toyo Ito's post-earthquake recovery programmeīright white walls are offset by areas of bright red carpeting and paintwork.
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