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Mecanoo wins Cityscape Architectural Award (NL/UAE)
Wednesday 8 October 2008
During the gala dinner of the largest real estate and development event of its kind Francine Houben received the Cityscape Architectural Award for the National Performing Arts Center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
This theatre and music complex will include a concert hall and an opera house. The prize, whose theme is ‘Design for an Emerging World’, has been awarded to the National Performing Arts Center because of the building’s strength in expression, the integration of the complex with the park, its advanced theatre design and technical innovation and the building design’s response to the subtropical climate of the city of Kaohsiung. The Cityscape Architectural Award is endorsed by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Francine Houben: ‘I am happy receiving this prize for the National Performing Arts Center. It means that Dubai honors designs that take climate issues into account and with attention for innovative and sustainable solutions.’

In 2007 Mecanoo won the competition for the National Performing Arts Center. The theater complex of 100,000 m˛ has a total of 6,000 seats: an opera house with 2,250 seats, a concert hall with 2,000 seats, a recital hall with 500 seats, a play house with 1,250 seats and an open air theatre for thousands of visitors. The start of the building works is planned in December 2008. The theater complex will open its doors in 2012.

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