Wei Yi International Design Associate’s architectural design took inspiration from the surrounding hills and landscape: as a result the design of the building showcases a layer-by-layer structure similar to that of hills.
Commissioned as an urban landmark by Continental Development Corporation, the tower building design by Richard Meier & Partners rises 127 meters and will set a precedent in Taiwan as a private building that dedicates its entire landscape to the public realm.
Architects: Wei Yi International Design Associates. This apartment design has a strong focus on colour. A blue color denotes ‘quiet elegance and deep sensibility’ to correlate with the owner’s ‘state of contentment’. The architecture also uses grey materials and unbright colours to provide a highly restrained style.
Architects: Aedas. Located on the beautiful Yangmingshan in northern Taipei, the new campus for the international school will be a contemporary, vibrant campus that roots in traditional Taiwanese cultural.
Design: Mecanoo and MAYU – groundbreaking news: Tainan is a city born from a history of diverse cultures, peoples and traditions. The urban fabric holds memories from the 17th century European maritime trading, the Qing Dynasty Ruling, and the Japanese settlement of the early 1900s.
Design: Form4 Architecture, architects. The objective was to design a public library and fine arts museum to distinguish itself as a city with arts and culture at its core.
Design: MVRDV, Architects. A private villa offering escapism from city life and a sky-high rooftop swimming pool: the focal point of a new residential development, serving as a weekend retreat for city workers.
The Theatre Architecture Competition (TAC), organized by Architecture commission of OISTAT -International Organisation of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians, is an international competition aimed at students and emerging architects and practitioners to showcase their innovation of future theatre architectures.
Design: spatial practice, architects. A simple building design: the horizontal band defines the uninterrupted view of the park, mountain, and sea; while also performing as a sustainable shading element to reduce heat gain.
Architects: Chain 10 Urban Space Design. The design high-lights both a pleasant interior environment and a natural outdoor environment. The building also aim to provide residents’ with a comfortable place where they can enjoy socializing with their neighbors and friends.
Taiwan Architecture Awards in 2016. The First Prize goes to the Yuhsiu Museum of Art, designed by the AMBI Studio. The building design finds a harmonic relationship between the natural environment and man-made structures.
Why have the most exciting theatrical events of the past 100 years taken place outside the spaces formally designed for them? Can architecture transcend its own dirty secret, the inevitability of imposing limits on what is possible?
Design: Hsiang Yu Chen & Tai Jung Yang, architects. Penetrability is the main concept. For sunlight, air, and people go through all the space smoothly. The trail use glass to link the aisle, and for the sunlight shines down to every corner.
Design: Create + Think Design Studio, architects: A’tolan is the word meaning, “a place with many rocks”, from the indigenous language of the natives on the east coast of Taiwan. It can also be interpreted as “a house made out of rocks.”
Design: Create + Think Design Studio, architects. A building designed with abundance of natural light and beauty. Echoing the hexagonal shape of a honeycomb structure.
Design: Cai-In Interior Design Co., architects. The building integrates natural elements into a workable composition. The fish-scale-like exterior design is composed of the repeating and overlapping blocks: sunshine sifts through those gaps among the ‘scales’.
Design: Cruz Kang of Inheressence Design Studio. The building’s volume of forms and materials performs the existence of ‘Yin’ and ‘Yang’, two contradictory but harmonized elements.
Design: Tang-Huang Cheng, architects. The architects tried to create an “Eden in the modern world”, a place to rest the mind, a place to once more pull away from congested urbanity.
Investigation into construction of the 17-storey Weiguan Jinlong building launched. The magnitude 6.4 earthquake toppled buildings in the south Taiwanese city of Tainan, killing many people.
