Onsen Papawaqa Hotspring Hotel
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.
Tainan Earthquake Building Destruction, Taiwan
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.
Taipei Pop Music Center Building
Design: Reiser + Umemoto with ARUP. RUR Architecture PC. announce the groundbreaking of the Taipei Pop Music Center an urban complex dedicated to the celebration, production and performance of Taiwan’s pop music.
Tainan Urban Lagoon Transformation, Taiwan
Design: MVRDV / The Urbanist Collaborative / LLJ Architects. Competition win for the transformation of the T-axis in downtown Tainan, aiming to reconnect the city with nature and its waterfront by creating a lagoon and a green corridor with public interventions.
Hualien Residences in Taiwan
Design: BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group. Hualien is a rapidly developing city located in the middle portion of Taiwan’s East coast. TLDC, a prominent land developer based in Taipei, has recently obtained license to turn what used to be an industrial and factory region into a world class beach resort.
Taiwan Architecture Awards 2015
Taiwan Architecture Awards in 2015: The First Prize goes to the Master Plan and Bamboo structures for the Yunlin Agricultural Fair – bamboo pavilions by Archit.
Wood Shed Exhibition Space in Taiwan
The Wood Shed project is situated along the coast, a short drive from Taipei in Taiwan. The project is designed as an adaptive reuse project around an existing shed structure, re purposing all of the existing structure.
Zheng Residence in Taipei Property
The area is about 90 square meters, and ceiling height is not high, either. Therefore in façade design, use a large number of polyline arc to reduce folded lines of building mass.
Kuo Concept Residence Taiwan
It’s the point how to reduce the interference of different lifestyle and habits. We arrange the maximum public space between the private parts in the long base and define each program through operating the form of ceiling and furnishing.
High Speed Rail in Taiwan
Benoy, international award-winning Architects, Masterplanners, Interior and Graphic Designers, has unveiled the design for Taiwan High Speed Rail’s (THSR) Hsin Chu Station Mall. Presented at the February contract signing for the scheme, Benoy has revealed a green architectural design that melds into the landscape of the site.
Ultra-Ruin Taiwan Architecture
Ultra-Ruin designed by Marco Casagrande is a wooden architectural organism that is growing from the ruins of an abandoned red brick farmhouse in the meeting place of terraced farms and jungle. The weak architecture follows the principles of Open Form and is improvised on the site based on instincts reacting on the presence of jungle, ruin and local knowledge.
Maritime & Bike Terminal – Taiwan Port
Design by KAMJZ Architects in Kinmen Island, Taiwan, aimed at altering the image of what you can expect from a port terminal building proposing a pragmatic hybrid complex where the water transportation system is connected with another strictly locally based way to commute.
Taiwan Architecture Awards 2013
After intense debates, the five selection panelists finally decided that the Water-Moon Monastery by Artech Architects is the recipient of the First Prize of 2013 Taiwan Architecture Award. Water-Moon Monastery was established by the commission of the past Buddhist Master Sheng Yen, the founder of the Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Association.
Kinmen Passenger Service Center Competition
Kinmen Passenger Service Center International Competition, Taiwan. The projected goal for Phase 2 of the Center is an annual processing capacity of 5 million travelers. Based on the projected growth and airport expansion in 2031, the design of Phase 1 will be for an annual processing capacity of 3.5 million mini-three links travelers.
Taichung City Cultural Center Competition Winners
Taichung City Cultural Center Planning, Design and Construction Supervision Service Project – Tenderer: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA, Japan, Joint Tenderer: Ricky Liu & Associates Architects+Planners / Ricky Liu, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Ritz Plaza Taipei Housing, Property
These new residential buildings contain up/down duplex townhouses: the project combines strongly articulated blocks with a pleasant environment at street level.
Taichung City Cultural Center Competition Design
The site of Taichung’s new Cultural Center still reflects its recent history as an airbase. Bulldozers move and gather broken slabs of runway concrete, the weeds growing among them testifying to the change which is occurring.
Oystermen Kinmen Island Project, Taiwan
Oystermen is an environmental artwork at a tidal beach in Kinmen Island, Taiwan. The men are standing 6 meters high from the sand surface during low tide and are walking on water 3 meters high on top of waves as the ocean deepens on high tide.
Gloria Manor Boutique Hotel Taiwan Building
The hotel is located at Kenting in the southernmost part of Taiwan. The property was previously used as a retreat by the late Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek in the late 60’s, thus no major structural or exterior openings were allowed to be changed.
Taichung City Cultural Center Competition Entry
Paris based experimental studio Sane Architecture proposed a strong structure and a courageous environemental approach for the new Taichung City Cultural Center. The challenges of the project are strong.
