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Taiwanese Architecture : Buildings in Taiwan
Key Contemporary Architectural Designs in Eastern Asia
Post updated 31 August 2024
We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of Taiwanese Architecture. We cover completed buildings, new building designs and design competitions across Taiwan. The focus is on contemporary Taiwanese buildings.
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Taiwan Architecture News, chronological:
15 Nov 2013
Taiwan Architecture Awards 2013 : winning Buildings + Architects
photograph courtesy of Artech Architects
Taiwan Architecture Awards 2013
The Water-Moon Monastery building by Artech Architects has won the First Prize of the 2013 Taiwan Architecture Awards. Water-Moon Monastery was established by the commission of the past Buddhist Master Sheng Yen, the founder of the Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Association.
8 Oct 2013
Ritz Plaza Taipei
Design: Chin Architects
photograph : Jeffrey Cheng
Ritz Plaza Taipei
The ground floor is purposefully raised to redefine the urban public-private edge, and at the same time to visually connect the garden of the lower unit with the parks. The upper unit’s public areas are arranged on the fourth floor which enjoys a splendid 6 meter floor-height that invites the surrounding beautiful mountainous scenery into the building.
22 Aug 2013
Gloria Manor Boutique Hotel, Kenting, Taiwan
Design: J. J. Pan & Partners + JAHAA Inc.
photo : SAM
Gloria Manor Boutique Hotel
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. With the rich history of the property, the client hoped to achieve two purposes: heritage and sustainability.
26 Jun 2013
Taichung City Cultural Center Project
Design: AllesWirdGut Architektur
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Taichung City Cultural Center Project
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 projected building takes up characteristics of the surrounding landscape to define different usage areas.
21 Jun 2013
Taichung City Cultural Center Design
Design: Santiago Parramón, RTA-Office
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Taichung City Cultural Center Design
This architecture competition proposal uses a unitary transparent skin that allows stolen glimpses of the complexity that lies inside. Thus this object becomes a contemporary interpretation of an ancient traditional art and culture.
20 Jun 2013
Wooden Wave Cultural Center
Design: TheeAe Ltd
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Wooden Wave Cultural Center
The architects state: “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”.
18 Jun 2013
Taipei Pop Music Center Building
Design: Reiser + Umemoto / ARUP
render courtesy of RUR Architecture, PC
Taipei Pop Music Center Building
Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture PC, is proud to announce that the groundbreaking of the Taipei Pop Music Center will take place on June 19, 2013 at the center’s new site on the edge of Taipei, Taiwan. Envisioned as a coherent environment that challenges the limitations of traditional performances spaces, the innovative new center will consist of several mixed-use spaces woven together into a dynamic, multi-purpose venue that reflects and supports the evolving culture of pop.
6 Jun 2013
Taichung Cultural Center Competition Entry
Design: Pruthiphon Buakaew
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Taichung Cultural Center Competition Entry
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.
5 Jun 2013
City Cultural Center, Taichung
Design: Kukan Architects
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City Cultural Center Taiwan
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. We use the reference of the Baxian Caves to inspire our inhabitant physically and mentally within an organic and nature-type of landscape.
4 Jun 2013
Taichung City Cultural Center, Taichung
Design: Kubota & Bachmann Architects
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Taichung City Cultural Center
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.
24 Jan 2013
Taipei 101, Taiwan – elevators currently the fastest in the world
C.Y. Lee & Partners
photo : Daniel Shih
Taipei 101
23 Jul 2012
New Harbor Service Building, Keelung
Mecanoo shortlisted to design New Harbor Service Building in Taiwan
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Dutch architecture practice Mecanoo has been shortlisted to design the New Harbor Service Building in the major Taiwanese port city of Keelung. The building will accommodate the office of Keelung Port Authority, a passenger cruise terminal and cargo terminal, a bus transfer station and commercial space.
5 Mar 2012
National Library of Public Information, Taichung, central Taiwan
J. J. Pan & Partners, Architects & Planners
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National Library of Public Information Taiwan
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 striking form of the building features a “horizontal flow” theme recalling the early irrigation canals in the city’s settlement since the 18th century, as well as symbolizing the fluid data interface in the internet age.
16 Feb 2012
Taipei Performing Arts Centre – breaks ground
OMA
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Taipei Performing Arts Centre
The design of the TPAC building – 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. Two of the three theatres can be combined into a ‘Super Theatre’.
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Taiwan Building Designs
12 Feb 2012
Yuan Ze University Buildings
Santiago Calatrava
rendering courtesy of Santiago Calatrava, LLC
Yuan Ze University Buildings
The project will consist of a Performing Arts Center, a new Art and Design school and the Y.Z. Hsu Memorial Hall, which is dedicated to the university’s founder, Mr. Yu-Ziang Hsu. The Performing Arts Center will house a 1,200 seat concert hall and a 500 seat theater that can be used for both traditional and experimental performances.
20 Jan 2012
CICADA – Urban Acupuncture, Taipei City
Casagrande Laboratory
photo : AdDa
CICADA – Urban Acupuncture
The Cicada is an open form based organic space inside the mechanical reality of Taipei City. The simple bamboo structure reaches a 12 meter span with 8 meter height and is 34 meters long in total. The construction method is local knowledge from South China and Taiwan. By time the structure will be covered with vines, which seem to explode from the ground. The urbanized river basin of Taipei is extremely fertile.
Architecture in Taiwan
Major Taiwanese Buildings, alphabetical:
Ching Fu Headquarters
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners RSHP
photo : Katsuhisa Kida
Ching Fu HQ : shipbuilding company HQ
Hsinchu City
Mole Architects / Gianni Botsford Architects
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Taiwanese Architecture : latest design
Kaohsiung Exhibition & Convention Centre
Cox Architecture
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Kaohsiung Convention Centre
Kaohsiung Library Contest Design
Mak Architects Inc.
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Kaohsiung Library Competition
Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural & Popular Music Center Competition Winners
Design: various architects
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Kaohsiung Maritime Competition
Kaohsiung Urban Port Station
Competition Winners
De Architekten Cie.
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Kaohsiung Urban Port Station
Taipei Pop Music Center Contest
Architecture Competition
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Taipei Pop Music Center
Taiwan Centers for Disease Control
Studio Nicoletti Associati
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Taiwan Centers for Disease Control
Taiwan National Performing Arts Centre
Mecanoo architecten
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Taiwan arts centre building
TED Taipei
BIG
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TED Taipei
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Location: Taiwan, Eastern Asia
Eastern Asia Architecture Design
Contemporary Eastern Asian Building Designs – recent architectural selection from e-architect below:
Taiwan Architecture Awards
photograph : Cheng Jin-Ming
Taipei Design Competition : Performing Arts Centre
Ruin Academy Taipei
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Taiwan Library Architecture Contest
Mecanoo entry
Taiwan Library Architecture Competition
International Design Competition: Taiwan Hakka cultural Center
Budget $40m, Fee $3.6m
Deadline for Stage 1 Tender submission: 16 Oct 2007
1st Prize: Right of first refusal on contract, 2nd-5th Prizes: $50,000
Website: www.hakkamuseum.com.tw
Architecture Design
Contemporary Building Designs – recent architectural selection from e-architect below:
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