Competition for the Metropolitan Opera in Taichung

Toyo Ito has embarked on another structural adventure. By winning the second round for the metropolitan opera in Taichung, Taiwan, he has likely set himself up for similar difficulties as with the Mediatheque in Sendai - a bold steel structure whose story its author would prefer not to repeat. Two years ago, Ito introduced a similar variation of Kiesler's house at the 9th Architecture Biennale in Venice for a cultural center project in Ghent, Belgium, but only after this year's Christmas does this idea begin to find success with juries and will soon enter realization. Info>