Taiwan

Servicing up to 10,000 cruise ship passengers a day, the New Keelung Harbor Service Building by Neil M. Denari Architects (NMDA) is set to become a bustling hive of activity in Taiwan's Port of Keelung. The project takes a two-phase approach that unites a public plaza and service base with a restaurant and the terminal proper, using an office building to mediate between the two.

Occupying 117,000-square-meters and with a construction budget of TWD $5 billion, the project is slated for completion by December 2017.

Read more about the project and view selected images after the break.

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• Architects

  KRIS YAO | ARTECH

• Location

  Chiayi, Taiwan (ROC)

• Area

  38413.0 m2

• Project Year

  2012

• Photographs

  National Palace Museum, Courtesy of KRIS YAO | ARTECH, Jeffrey Cheng

• Architects

  KRIS YAO | ARTECH

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• Architects

  Meier Partners

• Location

  Wenxin 1st Road, Taichung City, Taiwan (ROC)

• Project Year

  2018

• Photographs

  Courtesy of Meier Partners

• Area

  94052.0 m2

Steven Holl Architects’ schematic design for the Taiwan ChinPaoSan Necropolis has been approved. The scheme, planned for an oceanfront property just 40 minutes from Taipei, will provide a new arrival hall to serve the complex’s 10,000 existing burial sites and an oceanic pavilion for an additional 150,000 ashbox sites.

More than 30 schemes were considered, however Holl’s watercolor explorations lead to the approved idea of intersecting spheres which, as the practice described, “yielded amazing overlapping perspectives that created an astonishing spatial energy.”

More about the 54,000 square meter Necropolis of ChinPaoSan, after the break. 

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