This ephemeral building – which looks like it has been parametrically driven – is envisioned by the architects as a “Cultural Cloud”. It is meant to symbolize what is at once both ethereal and of our age, ancient and futuristic.
For Taiwan’s third largest city, Taichung, the Austrian architectural office submitted together with the Taiwanese partner keyStone architect this spectacular design proposal for a new City Cultural Center in an international competition.
The project is located in the third biggest city in taiwan, taichung. The project was affected by the concept of rediscovering the vernacular architecture of this area and using it in a modern cultural, functional way.
This proposal is strongly based on the idea of a container — a unique vessel that encompasses a multitude of architectural objects, various spaces, and the relationships between them.
The museum and the library are located in two distinct circular buildings that intersect with each other generating a figure eight in plan. Both programs function as independent buildings with separate access and security control.
We believe change or new is not a sole creation from nothing but rather evolution from the past. Designing the cultural center was a task to reveal what could be the image of modern and contemporary Taiwan Architecture.
Taichung City Cultural Center is a project which aims to present the possibility of using local features to protect from the very location itself turning limiting factors into interesting project features.
Taichung Cultural Centre is located in between serene Taichung Gateway Park and bustling Cultural Business District. In such subtropical environment, it constantly absorbs fluid masses i.e. People, Humidity and Heat which flow from surrounding.
Changbin Township’s Baxian Caves was our source of inspiration, for the creation of an ecosystem, a dynamic relationship among the environment, topography, structural intensities, and human activities.
The main purpose of the Taichung City Cultural Center (TCCC) is the integration of the Gateway Park and the best practice implementation of green architectural policies.
The building is a multi-purpose stadium in the Zuoying District of Kaohsiung and currently has the largest stadium capacity in Taiwan. The arena is used mostly for athletics and rugby events, but after the games finished the building has also been used for Taiwan football team matches.
This arts building in Taichung is by the famous Japanese architect, Toyo Ito, who leads a major international architecture office in Tokyo, Japan. He was the winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2013.
Taiwan Airport Company has awarded a EUR 33 million consultancy contract for the development of Terminal 3 Area at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TTIA) to a joint venture of NACO, T.Y. Lin and Parsons Brinkerhoff.
At Kuo Yang Tien Mu, which is located at an important urban junction in Taipei, Taiwan, the architects attempt to transform the building envelope that protects the residents’ private lives into a meaningful public city façade.
The New Taipei City Museum of Art is designed as an association with a crane (bird as a symbol of longevity), which embodies the concept of the nature and human needs for arts, into one building structure.
The Dadong Arts Center is located in Kaohsiung, the economic center of southern Taiwan. Before the opening of China to foreign markets, Taiwan was the leading economy of the region.
Keelung has a fairly unique climate which combines the extreme humidity and heat of the tropics with the high winds and rain of the typhoon corridor which follows of the coast of the Asian continent.
Situated in the middle of the island of Taiwan, the National Library of Public Information occupies a site that is both geographically and metaphorically the confluence of information exploration and urban evolution.
The design of TPAC, comprising a 1,500-seat theatre and two 800-seat theatres, is the result of investigation into the internal workings of theatre. Plugged into a central cube clad in corrugated glass, each theatre shares backstage space and mechanical facilities.
Yuan Ze University in Taiwan, affiliated with Far Eastern Group, one of Taiwan’s largest industrial conglomerates, has commissioned world-renowned architect, engineer and artist, Santiago Calatrava to design an ambitious new building complex for its campus.
