Taipei Arena
Sports arena in Taipei, Taiwan
- 15,000 (sporting events)
- 7,000–13,000 (concerts)
The Taipei Arena (Chinese: 臺北小巨蛋; pinyin: Táiběi xiǎojùdàn; Wade–Giles: T'ai2pei3 hsiao3chü4tan4; lit. 'Taipei little big egg') is a multi-purpose stadium in the capital Taipei, Taiwan, and it is operated by the Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation (TRTC). Built in 2005, the large multi-purpose stadium can accommodate major international sport events such as ice skating, ice hockey, gymnastics, handball, basketball, tennis, badminton, table tennis, indoor soccer, boxing, judo, karate, taekwondo and wrestling.
Building
It was designed by Archasia, an architectural firm based in Taipei, and Populous, a Kansas City, Missouri, design and architectural firm specializing in sports venues.[1] It is located at the site of the former Taipei Municipal Baseball Stadium (built in 1958, opened 1959, demolished 2000). The arena was opened on 1 December 2005. The main arena has an adjustable floor space: its minimum floor space is 60m × 30m, and can be extended to 80m × 40m.
The Chinese Taipei Ice Hockey League (CTIHL) plays out of the auxiliary arena, which is a 60m × 30m ice skating rink. The basement now houses two large gas turbine power generators to be used for the surrounding district during emergencies.[2]
Taipei Arena Sky Screen
Taipei Arena Sky Screen was constructed in December 2006, on the outer glass wall of Taipei Arena. It was the world's largest LED display at that time.[3]
The screen is a long arc type outdoor dynamic display, featuring a built in light sensor that enables LED to adjust its own brightness according to ambient lighting. It was built by Optotech and currently operated by Nova Media. It is on 24 hours a day and 365 days a year, displaying mainly corporate advertisements, live coverage and visual creativity supplemented content.
The screen also engages its audience though cross-screen interactive events and applications.
Events
Since opening in 2005, the arena has held more art and cultural activities (such as live concerts) than sporting events, which it was originally designed and built for. These have included Disney on Ice, Cirque du Soleil, and Cats.[4]
International Artists in the table below are highlighted in light blue.
| Year | Date | Nationality of performers | Name of performers | Name of tour | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | November 18 | Taiwan | Show Lo | – | – |
| 2006 | July 29 | Singapore | Stefanie Sun | – | She is the 1st woman and Singaporean Singer to hold her concert at the venue. |
| December 16 | Taiwan | S.H.E | Perfect 3 World Tour | – | |
| December 29 | Singapore | JJ Lin | Just JJ World Tour | – | |
| 2007 | March 24 | Japan | Ayumi Hamasaki | Tour of Secret | – |
| April 21 & 22 | Australia | Olivia Newton-John | Body Heart & Spirit Tour | 1st concert performed at the arena by an international artist. | |
| July 6 & 7 | Hong Kong | Jacky Cheung | Snow Wolf Lake Tour | – | |
| 2008 | March 2 | United States | Backstreet Boys | Unbreakable Tour | 1st American act to perform at the venue. |
| June 7 | Malaysia | Fish Leong | Today Is Our Valentine's Day | 1st Malaysian artist to perform at the arena. | |
| June 8 | United States | The Osmonds | The Osmonds 50th Anniversary Reunion Concert | – | |
| November 1 & 2 | Japan | Ayumi Hamasaki | Asia Tour 2008: 10th Anniversary | – | |
| 2009 | April 4 & 5 | United Kingdom | Sarah Brightman | The Symphony World Tour | – |
| May 15 & 16 | Singapore | Stefanie Sun | "The Answer Is......" World Tour | – | |
| June 20 & 21 | Japan | Namie Amuro | Best Fiction Tour | – | |
| October 24 & 25 | Taiwan | Fahrenheit | Fantasy World Tour | The concert was filmed for their Fahrenheit's Fantasy World Tour Taipei Special DVD. | |
| December 31 | Taiwan | Elva Hsiao | – | – | |
| 2010 | February 20 & 21 | South Korea | Super Junior | Super Show 2 Tour | This was the 1st concert from a K-pop artist at the venue. |
| February 25 | United States | Backstreet Boys | This Is Us Tour | ||
| March 27 | United States | Coco Lee | East To West World Tour | – | |
| April 24 | Taiwan | Rainie Yang | Whimsical World | This was the debut concert of her music career. | |
| May 15 | Taiwan | Show Lo | Dance Storm 舞法舞天 | He was the 1st artist who held 3 concerts in 24 hours.For this concert's theme, he was also the first artist with a 3D music video for his song "Dance Storm" (舞法舞天), which can be view in 3D by the naked eye. | |
| May 29 | Taiwan | S.H.E | S.H.E Is The One World Tour | – | |
| June 11, 12, 13 | Taiwan | Jay Chou | The Era World Tour | – | |
| August 27 & 28 | Japan | KAT-TUN | No More Pain | The concert was filmed and recorded into a DVD that was released a few months later. | |
| October 16 & 17 | South Korea | Girls' Generation | Girls' Generation Asia Tour Into the New World | – | |
| December 18 | Taiwan | Crowd Lu | Good Morning & Good Evening | This was his 1st concert at the arena. The show started at 10:00, followed by a lunch break and a movie screening in the afternoon, and continued at 19:30. | |
| December 24, 25 & 26 | Taiwan | Jolin Tsai | Myself World Tour | – | |
| 2011 | January 14 & 15 | Hong Kong | Eason Chan | DUO Tour | – |
| January 21, 22 & 23 | Hong Kong | Faye Wong | – | – | |
| March 11, 12 & 13 | South Korea | Super Junior | Super Show 3 Tour | – | |
| April 3 | United States | Bob Dylan | Never Ending Tour 2011 | ||
| May 15 | Canada | Justin Bieber | My World Tour | ||
| May 28 & 29 | Malaysia | Fish Leong | "Love Library" World Tour | – | |
| July 16 | South Korea | Shinee | SHINee WORLD | – | |
| August 18, 19, 20 & 21 | Hong Kong | Jacky Cheung | 1/2 Century World Tour | He set a new record for a foreign artist to have 4 consecutive shows in Taipei Arena. | |
| September 9, 10 & 11 | South Korea | Girls' Generation | Girls' Generation Tour | – | |
| 2012 | February 2, 3, 4 & 5 | South Korea | Super Junior | Super Show 4 | They set a record for the fastest selling concerts in Taiwan with 40,000 fans.[5] |
| October 20 & 21 | South Korea | Big Bang | Alive Galaxy Tour | – | |
| November 16 | South Korea | 2NE1 | New Evolution Global Tour | – | |
| 2013 | February 23 & 24 | Japan | Namie Amuro | Namie Amuro 2013 Asia Tour | – |
| May 9 & 10 | South Korea | G-Dragon | One of a Kind World Tour | – | |
| June 28, 29 & 30 | Canada United States | Cirque du Soleil | Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour | – | |
| July 20 & 21 | South Korea | Girls' Generation | Girls' Generation World Tour Girls & Peace | ||
| August 10, 11 & 12 | South Korea | Super Junior | Super Show 5 | – | |
| August 17 | United States | Linkin Park | Living Things World Tour | – | |
| December 14 | United Kingdom | Sarah Brightman | Dreamchaser World Tour | – | |
| December 20 | Canada | Triumph | Our Home Ground | – | |
| 2014 | November 29 & 30 | South Korea | Super Junior | Super Show 6 Tour | |
| 2015 | April 28 | United States | Katy Perry | The Prismatic World Tour | – |
| May 22, 23, 24 & 25 | Taiwan | Jolin Tsai | Play World Tour | – | |
| June 12 & 13 | South Korea | Exo | Exo Planet 2 – The Exo'luxion | – | |
| September 24, 25, 26 & 27 | South Korea | Big Bang | Made World Tour | – | |
| November 5, 6, 7 & 8 | Taiwan | Jolin Tsai | Play World Tour | – | |
| 2016 | January 2 | Taiwan | Cyndi Wang | Cyndiwants World Tour | – |
| February 4 & 6 | United States | Madonna | Rebel Heart Tour | The highest ticket price of it goes to 30,000 TWD, which is also the highest in Taiwan performance history. The box office of both performances up to 202 million TWD, making the most successful box offices in Taiwan performance history. | |
| April 22 | South Korea | iKon | iKoncert 2016: Showtime Tour | – | |
| August 7 | United Kingdom | Sarah Brightman | Gala - An Evening With Sarah Brightman | – | |
| May 7 & 8 | South Korea | Girls' Generation | Girls' Generation's Phantasia | – | |
| November 26 & 27 | South Korea | Exo | Exo Planet 3 – The Exo'rdium | – | |
| December 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31 & 1 January 2017 | Taiwan | Mayday | Just Rock It World Tour | Each show has its own different icon, Dec 17 – Re: Just Rock It, 18 – Re: Nowhere, 21 – Re: DNA, 23 – Re: Jump, 24 – Re: Final Home, 25 – Re: Union, 30 – Re: Where Are You Going, 31 – Re: Stand Out, Jan 1 – Re: 168 | |
| 2017 | September 19 | United States | Ariana Grande | Dangerous Woman Tour | – |
| 2018 | March 17 | Japan & Taiwan | Glay & Mayday | Glay Arena Tour 2018 "Springdelics" | – |
| March 31 & 1 April | South Korea | Super Junior | Super Show 7 | – | |
| April 4 | United States | Katy Perry | Witness: The Tour | – | |
| May 19 & 20 | Japan | Namie Amuro | Namie Amuro Final Tour 2018 Finally | 100,000 Taiwanese fans jammed the online ticketing system for 22,000 tickets, all tickets were sold out within three minutes.[6] | |
| July 11, 13 & 14 | Canada | Celine Dion | Celine Dion Live 2018 | Even with a high ticket prices, more than 300.000 fans clambered for 20.000 tickets for the artist first ever show in Taiwan. It ended up with broken the ticket system. Celine later added 1 additional show here.[7] | |
| September 22 | South Korea | iKon | IKon 2018 Continue Tour | – | |
| 2019 | January 27 | Japan | Nogizaka46 | Nogizaka46 LIVE in Taipei 2019 | – |
| February 1 & 2 | Japan | Mr. Children | Mr.Children Tour 2018–19 Live in Taiwan | – | |
| April 13 & 14 | China | Joker Xue | Skyscraper World Tour | The first singer from mainland China to hold two consecutive concerts at Taipei Arena | |
| May 11 | Taiwan | Eric Chou | How Have You Been Asia Tour | – | |
| September 28 & 29 | South Korea | Exo | Exo Planet 5 – Exploration | – | |
| October 19 | Japan | AKB48 & AKB48 Team TP | ~AKB48 in Taipei 2019 ~ Are You Ready For It? ~ | – | |
| November 6 & 7 | Taiwan | Fei Yu-ching | Fei Yu Qing Farewell Concert Encore Show | – | |
| 2020 | January 19 | Japan | Nogizaka46 | Nogizaka46 LIVE in Taipei 2020 | – |
| August 8 & 9 | Taiwan | Eric Chou | How Have You Been Deluxe Tour | It is the first large-scale arena concert in the world since the COVID-19 pandemic happened. | |
| 2022 | October 21–23 | Taiwan | Eric Chou | Odyssey~ Journey Tour | – |
| November 19 & 20 | Taiwan | Nick Chou | REALIVE Taipei Concert | – | |
| November 26 & 27 | South Korea | Super Junior | Super Show 9: Road | – | |
| 2023 | June 24 | South Korea | Taeyeon | The Odd of Love | She is the 1st South Korean female solo artist to hold the concert at the venue. |
| 2024 | April 6–7 | South Korea | IU | IU H.E.R. World Tour | – |
| June 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, & 16 | Hong Kong | Jacky Cheung | The Jacky Cheung 60+ Concert Tour | – |
Non-Entertainment Events:
- Inaugural ceremony and celebrations of President Ma Ying-Jeou and Vice-President Vincent Siew on 20 May 2008.
Dates Unknown:
- Jolin Tsai performed her 1st concert in the arena in November 2006 for her Dancing Forever World Tour.
- Japanese singer Ayumi Hamasaki's Asia Tour, which had more than 10,000 tickets sold out in 1 hour. That was the 1st concert at the venue to be performed by a J-Pop artist.
- Taiwanese Aborigine pop star Chang Hui-mei's STAR TOUR world tour.
- Irish-American dancer and musician Michael Flatley reprises his role as Lord of the Dance in the Feet of Flames 2009 tour.
- The Indiana Pacers vs Denver Nuggets game was the first (United States) National Basketball Association game held in the country back in 2009.
- In the rotation for the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships. The venue is a frequent host of the International Skating Union figure skating championship for the Americas, Asia, Oceania, and Africa.
Annual events:
- The annual Chinese New Year eve program, Super Star (超級巨星紅白藝能大賞) was held annually since 2011. The live special is based on the NHK's New Year's Eve special Kōhaku Uta Gassen.[8]
Transport
Taipei Arena is accessible from Taipei Arena Station of the Taipei Metro.
References
- ^ "運動場館規劃設計經驗分享". Taiwan Architect.
- ^ "Taipei Arena". Archived from the original on 22 July 2009. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
- ^ "Nova Media". Retrieved 5 Aug 2014.
- ^ "又來了 小巨蛋沒有LED計分器" (in Chinese). China Times. 2007-03-14. Archived from the original on 2007-03-18.
- ^ "Super Junior Breaks Records with ‘Super Show 4’ in Taiwan" CJ E&M enews World. 2012-02-26
- ^ "100,000 Taiwanese fans scramble for 'Namie Amuro Final Tour 2018' tickets". March 2018.
- ^ "300,000 fans crash ticket system for Celine Dion concerts in Taipei, more shows possible | Taiwan News | 2018-01-23 10:18:00". 23 January 2018.
- ^ 葉文正、張瑞振 (2009-10-28). "張小燕 哈林 彈開9年再合體" (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 蘋果日報 (台灣). Archived from the original on 2010-02-03. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Taipei Arena.
- Official website (in English)
- CIHL official website (in English) (in Chinese)
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