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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 International Competition, Taiwan. 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 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.)
These new residential buildings contain up/down duplex townhouses: the project combines strongly articulated blocks with a pleasant environment at street level.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.