the vanity project for the jazz fan mayor in the middle of the city-, right behind the town hall is the enormous taichung opera house designed by toyo ito. the renderings show a box whose edges give way to seductive curves and swoops. under construction these seductions seem heavy handed and clumsy. but the structural system is complex and fun. slabs cantilevered off the curved structural concrete and the tall box of the stage standing as the rest of the building gets completed around it. meanwhile on a shed on the side the reinforcement is being bent into shape by men working to patterns etched on steel plates by a computer guided laser.
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