“And this is to say nothing of the superior quality of the facilities at the theater. “The government should be thinking about how to use the resources at hand to develop the arts at a level appropriate for the population of central Taiwan,” Chiang said. This is a narrow-minded approach,” Chiang said. The National Audit Office views the government’s responsibility in promoting the arts as just running a business: They only pay attention to profits and losses.

“The nation should be investing more resources to promote education in the arts.

In the Sendai Mediatheque he achieved this by structural tubes, which permitted new interior spatial qualities.The ministry separately anticipated an annual loss of NT$200 million for the theater.ĭemocratic Progressive Party Taichung city councilors Chiang Chao-kuo (江肇國) and Yang Tien-chung (楊典忠) said the arts are not meant to be business endeavors, calling the office’s report “unbelievable.” The jury commented on this project in their citation, saying, “Ito has said that he strives for architecture that is fluid and not confined by what he considers to be the limitations of modern architecture. While the building principally functions as a library and art gallery, the administration has actively worked to relax divisions between diverse programmes, removing fixed barriers between various media to progressively evoke an image of how cultural facilities should be from now on.”

In the Phaidon book, Toyo Ito, he explains, “The Mediatheque differs from conventional public buildings in many ways. Toyo Ito calls the Sendai Mediatheque, completed in 2001 in Sendai City, Miyagi, Japan, one of the high points of his career.

Taichung metropolitan opera house