INDEX

[Editorial]

14 Architecture•Globalization and Post-colonialism [ link ]
Hui-Ching Hsieh

[Opera House and Performing Arts Center]

20 A Cultural Island in the Middle of a Lake
The Beijing National Grand Theatre of China
Paul Andreau Architect

32 Breaking the Shoe Box
Casa Da Musica, Porto
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture

44 Concept Recontextualized
Limoges Concert Hall, 2007
Bernard Tschumi Architects

52 Kaleidoscopic Experience
Theater Agora, Lelystad, Netherlands
UNStudio

64 Sound Cave
Taichung Metropolitan Opera House
Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects

70 Organic Theater
National Kaohsiung Performing Arts Center
Hsing-hua Lo Architect, Mecanoo Architecten b.v.

76 It could be Anything！
Architect Krist Yao Dialogue with Designer Keh-Hua Lin
Editorial Staff

[Projects]

84 Inspiration from Soap Bubbles—the Water Cube
The National Swimming Centrefor the Beijing Olympic Games 2008
PTW + CCDI + Arup

96 Wind Had a Body
BMW Welt, Munich, Germany
COOP HIMMELB(L)AU

[2007 Shenzhen Biennale]

110 City of Expiration and Regeneration
2007 Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture
Ivy Huang

[Interview]

116 An Architect who Lives in the Realms of Iimpossibility
Interview with CJ Lim
Moore Chen

[Art•Landscape]

120 The Stories behind the 1st Public Art Award
Jiahn-Min Huang

[Exhibition]

124 Otaku Culture Change the City Street
Akihabara, Otaku, and Kaiyodo
ZERO

128 [Book Review]

130 [News & Events]