Taipei Performing Arts Center Officially Opens · Chronopin

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Starts 07/02/2022 CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The center had a trial opening in March-May 2022 before it officially opened on 2 July 2022."

Start: Jul 2, 202290% CONFIDENCEfrom the source

Taipei Performing Arts Center Officially Opens

OMA's Taipei Performing Arts Center, a sphere-studded venue perched above the Shilin Night Market, officially opened after a decade of delayed construction.

OMA's Taipei Performing Arts Center in Shilin, designed by David Gianotten and Rem Koolhaas, officially opened on 2 July 2022 after a trial opening from March to May 2022^[2]
Commissioned by the city in 2009 with groundbreaking on 28 February 2012, it was topped out in August 2014 and originally slated for completion in 2015^[2][3]
Three auditoriums protrude from a central cuboid: the 800-seat spherical Globe Playhouse, the 1,500-seat Grand Theater and the Blue Box, which can combine into a "Super Theater"^[2][3]
Cost is given as NT$6.75 billion in the infobox, with the history text saying NT$5.4 billion^[2]
A public walkway, the Public Loop, runs through the backstage areas up to a rooftop viewing point^[3]

Cost NT$6.8B

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youtube.com/watch?v=7iZJmzffB7w
youtube.com· Posted Sep 15, 2026· Starts Jul 2, 2022 ✓· 50% of score
Happened as dated, per the source: "The center had a trial opening in March-May 2022 before it officially opened on 2 July 2022."
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Taipei Performing Arts Center - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 15, 2026· 50% of score
Wikipedia states the Taipei Performing Arts Center "officially opened on 2 July 2022," after a trial opening from March to May 2022, matching the pin's stored date exactly.
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Rem Koolhaas designs Taipei Performing Arts Center - Dezeen
dezeen.com· Published May 13, 2022· 0% of score
Dezeen's own headline, "Rem Koolhaas designs Taipei Performing Arts Center," published 13 May 2022, covers the building's substantial completion about seven weeks before the pin's stored 2 July 2022 official-opening date, though the page itself could not be fetched to quote directly.

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