New Taiwan architecture projects with building news and architectural images, plus architects background. Taiwan building news from across this East Asian island country.
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.
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.
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.
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 in 2015: The First Prize goes to the Master Plan and Bamboo structures for the Yunlin Agricultural Fair – bamboo pavilions by Archit.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.