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Taiwanese Buildings : Architecture
post updated 11 February 2026
e-architect Editors choose major, interesting Taiwan Buildings.
We feature completed buildings, new building designs and design competitions across Taiwan. The focus is on contemporary Taiwanese buildings but information on traditional buildings is also welcome.
We have 3 pages of Taiwanese Architecture selections.
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Taiwan Buildings
Taiwan Architecture : news + key projects
Taiwan Building Designs : A-K
Taiwan Buildings : L-Z (this page)
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Buildings in Taiwan
Modern Taiwanese Buildings, chronological:
17 December 2025
Wooden Wonders Exhibition by MVRDV, Chiayi City
Design: MVRDV
Visualisation © Shephotoerd
20 November 2025
The Island, Taichung
Design: MVRDV
image : MVRDV
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New Taiwanese Building Designs, alphabetical:
Star Place Kaohsiung – Taiwanese Retail
Design: UNStudio
image from architect office
Kaohsiung Shopping Centre
A vibrant new landmark has appeared in the fast and modern city of Kaohsiung: the luxury shopping center Star Place. Both outside and inside, the building radiates dynamism and a kind of bright perfection.
Taipei City Museum of Art – Competition
Design: Kubota & Bachmann Architects
render from architects studio
Taipei City Museum of Art
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. This design proposal is based on the three possible ways to “get in” to the Cranes (bird) nest – Museum of Art.
Taipei City Museum of Art Competition
Taiwanese Design Contest launch
image from organisers
Taipei City Museum of Art Competition
In a call for proposal through a conceptual design international competition, creative and visionary schemes are sought in order to give the New Taipei City Museum of Art a fresh look and versatile art exhibition space.
Taipei Performing Arts Centre – Design Entry
Morphosis
picture from architect firm
Taipei Performing Arts Centre Morphosis
Historically, Taiwanese culture has encompassed a rich blend of Confucian Han Chinese, Japanese, European, American, southern Asian, and indigenous influences. This diversity, combined with Taiwan’s ongoing social and political struggle for self-determination, has forged a strong, distinctive and resilient national identity.
Taipei Performing Arts Centre – Design Entry
NL Architects
image from architect practice
Taipei Performing Arts Centre Proposal
The dichotomy between high and low culture is slowly disappearing. But how can we create an environment that is inspiring for everyone? Is it possible to be elitist and populist at the same time? How can we envision a truly Public building?
Taipei Performing Arts Centre – Design Entry
Abalos + Sentkiewicz Arquitectos
image from architect
Taipei Performing Arts Centre Entry
Against the typical configuration of a principal and a back façade this project achieves a total urban isotropy, not only with four but with five facades in relation with the context.
Taipei Performing Arts Centre – Design Entry
Studio Nicoletti Associates
picture from architecture firm
Performing Arts Centre Taipei Design
The unique urban and architectonical distribution of the complex is such to become permeable to the traffic flows and to the views. All its elements thus participate in a unique internal space.
Taipei Pop Music Center Contest
Architecture Competition design
picture from architect office
Taipei Pop Music Center
Taiwan Centers for Disease Control
Studio Nicoletti Associati
picture from architects studio
Taiwan Centers for Disease Control
Taiwan National Performing Arts Centre
Mecanoo architecten
image from architect
Taiwan arts centre building
Taiwan Tower
Architecture Competition design news
image from architects
Taiwan Tower
TED Taipei
BIG
image : BIG
TED Taipei
Treasure Hill, Taipei City
C-Laboratory
picture from architect
Treasure Hill Taipei
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Taiwan Buildings – no links
Far East Telecom Building, Yuan Ze University campus
ARCTANGENT aRCHITECTURE + dESIGN
picture : Yiu Hung-Hsiang
New Building in Taichung
Zaha Hadid Architects
Gymnasium of the Hsindien High
photo : Cheng Jin-Ming
Hsinkang Art High
image : Marc Gerristen
Kaohsiung City Underground Station
Date built: 2008
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners (RSHP)
National Palace Museum, Taiwan
Antoine Predock Architect
Old Loudong Wood Farm
Field Office
photograph : Office Field
Shin-Kong Life Tower, Taipei
244m high / 51 storeys
Former tallest building in Taiwan prior to completion of Taipei 101 tower.
Taichung Metropolitan Opera House
2008-
Toyo Ito Architect
Taiwan Design competition win.
Taipei Gate – Main Station Area Redevelopment
Dates: 2011/12
Fumihiko Maki – Maki And Associates
Taipei Twin Towers : 350m high / 86 storeys & 256m high / 64 storeys
Tuntex Sky Tower, Kaohsiung
Dates built: 1994-97
C.Y. Lee & Partners
378m high / 85 storeys – former tallest building in Taiwan prior to Taipei 101.
World’s highest skyscraper
Taipei 101 – tower, Taipei
1999-2003
C.Y. Lee & Partners
449m high; antenna 509m / 101 storeys
In 2004 Taipei 101 became the tallest building in the world.
More Taiwanese buildings online soon.
Location: Taiwan, Eastern Asia.
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East Asian Architectural Designs
Taiwan Architecture Awards 2008 : Winners
Taipei Design Competition : Performing Arts Centre, 3 Nov 2008
by e-architect – bespoke city walks.
Architecture Competition Entry
National Palace Museum, Taiwan
Valerio Olgiati Architect, Switzerland
Taipei 101: World Skyscrapers
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