台湾罗东文化工场

LUODONG CULTURAL PLAZA, TAIWAN

2012年11月24日,第49届金马奖颁奖典礼在罗东文化工场举行,对宜兰人尤其罗东人来说,可是大事一桩!有别以往,典礼在半户外六个篮球场大的棚架下举行,媒体报道电影盛会的同时,也介绍典礼建筑。两周后的12月9日,深圳传来消息,罗东文化工场获第三届中国建筑传媒奖最佳建筑奖。有人说罗东文化工场像太空战舰,也有说似变形金刚,当地居民大都叫它＂文化二馆＂,还有人称＂丝瓜棚＂,它那长达110米高挂空中的艺廊倒是让我想起了火车。

IOn November 24, 2012, the 49th Golden Horse Awards Ceremony were held at the Luodong Culture Plaza. In addition to celebrating cinematic excellence, presenters also commented on architectural features of the Plaza. Two weeks later, the 3rd Chinese Media Architect Award for best design was given to the Plaza. These events represented the culmination of a fourteen-year project to bring a cultural center to southern Yilan. In her architectural memoir of Yilan, Taiwan Jian Zhaoling places the history of the Culture Plaza with respect to the social divisions caused by logging and nequal development, which began in the 1930s. Trees that were harvested north of he Lanyang River were transported to Luodong to be processed and then resold. Over ime, Yilan people came to think of themselves as belonging to either the community orth or the community south of the Lanyang River. By the 1980s, northern Yilan had cultural center, but southern Yilan did not. As Jian Zhaoling reports, residents of oth northern and southern Yilan welcomed and have benefitted from the decision to epurpose the old Luodong logging site as cultural center.