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River Isle House / Waterfrom Design

Miwa Negoro — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 21:00:00 +0000

Set along the banks of the Tamsui River, this vacation home opens itself to sweeping views of water and mangroves. Curved forms frame the landscape, softening the boundary between inside and out. The design is guided by a simple question: how can architecture sustain a conversation with nature? The answer lies in connection—between people, between light and shadow, between private retreat and shared life. By resisting rigid definitions and leaving space for flexibility, the house is designed to grow and evolve with time.

Wu Wei Apartment / Degree Design

Miwa Negoro — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 21:00:00 +0000

Wu Wei: Embracing the Natural Flow of Space and Life – The city is a jungle of concrete, overflowing with choices and crossroads. Immersed in this chaotic landscape, we often find ourselves lost in the labyrinth of our own making—torn between gain and loss, uncertain whether to hold on or let go. Some wander in confusion, while others race back and forth, all in search of a place to rest their soul.

Apricity Development Brand Headquarters / Soar Design Studio + Ray Architects

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 03:00:00 +0000

At this developer's headquarters, the factory steel frame outlines the layout, echoing with its founding origin of a brick kiln. Spaces are deconstructed and sequentially inserted. Diverting from the commercial setting, the design emphasizes "openness to the community" and shares its brand vision with the public, weaving a reinterpreted factory aesthetic and a Taiwan forest impression into the city.

Tamkang Church / Behet Bondzio Lin Architekten + Yen Partnership Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 01:00:00 +0000

All church buildings are built with the hope of interpreting the Christian doctrine perspective of the world (weltanschauung in German).The Tamkang Church emphasizes eternity, universality and community. Because of the difficulty to acquire land rights and the crowdedness of metropolitan spaces in Taiwan, religious architecture in this country often ought to confront the distance between man and heaven caused by the vertical massing of buildings. Unlike European churches that are able to create sanctity through structure, elevated space and mysterious lighting between the ground level and roof, the Tamkang Church also has to face the challenge of

A Farewell to Sanheyuan / CYS.ASDO

Hana Abdel — Sun, 23 May 2021 21:00:00 +0000

There is a 99-years-old abandoned Sanheyuan on the site and it will be demolished for a new residential project shortly. We were asked to design a temporary reception center before the construction of the new residential project. We decided to keep the Sanheyuan as part of the spatial design experiment for the reception center and also can be seen as a farewell exhibition for the 99-years-old house.

Sharing Space Building Near Taipei / Arcadian Design

Collin Chen — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 19:00:00 +0000

The building is located in a satellite city near Taipei. The site is at a corner along a city boulevard and is surrounded by the nearby apartment complex at the backside and the neighbor building at the left side. The shape of the site is an irregular polygon, and the overall building layout strategy applies the concept of “urban infill” theory. After fulfilling the building setbacks required by the local building code, the building plan was conformed to the existing terrain and shaped a polygon volume with diverse angles.

Residence C / KC Design Studio

罗靖琳 — Wed, 01 Apr 2020 23:00:00 +0000

The building faces the streets of all directions fearlessly, forming the fragmental indoor layout. The residents often feel the inconvenience in using the space. We fill the fragmental areas with the service functions of the residence to create the complete and open public and private space. The design point of the open space is the layer presentation. The connection and openness of the living room, dining room, and kitchen will be felt when you enter the house from the balcony.

E.SUN Bank / JJP Architects & Planners

Collin Chen — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 20:00:00 +0000

The name of the client E. Sun Bank rendered in Mandarin is “Jade Mountain” at 3,950m, highest mountain in eastern Pacific.

Chia Ching Mausoleum / Álvaro Siza Vieira + Carlos Castanheira

Daniel Tapia — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

SILENCE

Suang Lien Xinzhuang Social Welfare Center / JJP Architects & Planners

Collin Chen — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 22:00:00 +0000

Located in a fast-growing residential area, the Xinzhuang Center, is an exemplar of community daycare for the elderly that provides health rehabilitation, daycare services, meal delivery, house visits and consultation by phone when required.

Sunlight House Y / NestSpace Design

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 23:00:00 +0000

The owner Mr. Yu used to live in this house with grandparents and families back in childhood. It is where being filled with gracious memories. Years gone by, Mr. Yu decided to move back to the house with his mother and wife. After continual discussion with the couple and observing the entire environment, we came up with three major points: Scandinavian style, storage function as well as light. Since the Yu family wished their refurbishment based on Nordic aesthetic, keeping most interiors in a light tone including white walls, oak, and beech wood, light grey cabinet, etc. was one solution, in the meanwhile enhancing the lively ambiance through vibrant colors of lightings and chairs.

View the Scene / Peny Hsieh Interiors

Daniel Tapia — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 21:00:00 +0000

Home is as a chair in the exterior lounge area. By adopting the random stacking method of building blocks, a beautiful and fun change is created and turned into a unique leisure-style chair. In the meantime, the fixed building mass has features of storage that abundantly runs through the space. Sit on the site as you wish and see the change of four seasons, as you are personally on the scene.

Ward with V dots / B+P Architects

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 20:00:00 +0000

This is a project to reinvigorate the space of an old hospital and assist the vulnerable teenagers to regrow.

Hey! A Lovely Tiny Space / A'Lentil Design

舒岳康 - SHU Yuekang — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 19:00:00 +0000

A Couple and a Cat, Double Happiness
The happiness is enjoying the time with my lover and watching my cat walk around, even having a tea time at home on weekend, that’s the dreaming life every city dweller dream about. At the first time when designer see this place, she found this tiny space is separated by several walls and it looks smaller, even causes un-smooth movement. How to make a dreaming life come true and even there is a new born baby in the future, it is really a difficult problem. Designer communicates with the couple and decides to rearrange the movement, introduce sunlight and air into rooms, to renew space allocation and their life style.

KRIS YAO | ARTECH Wins Competition to Design New Taipei City Museum of Art

Karissa Rosenfield — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

KRIS YAO | ARTECH has been selected to design the New Taipei City Museum of Art. The winning competition scheme, a “Contemporary Museum of Art among the Reeds” aims to “fuse local landscape with cultural imagery” to create a “sustainable” platform for emerging artists and an entertainment destination for tourists. Continue reader to learn more.

Wulai Parking Structure / QLAB

Diego Hernández — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The building is located in a tourist attraction site named Wulai in the New Taipei City of Taiwan.

New Taipei City Museum of Art Proposal / Design Initiatives

Alison Furuto — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:00:09 +0000

The attempt of architect, Vlado Valkof, with designers Malgorzata Blasik and Anne Valkof, in the New Taipei City Museum of Art competition is to find the essence of art and to materialize our notion of art. To redefine the meaning of the art museum and to alter the way art museum functions. To organize a relationship between ourselves and the world around us. More images and architects’ description after the break.

New Taipei City Museum of Art Proposal / OODA

Alison Furuto — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 04:00:12 +0000

OODA shared with us their proposal for the New Taipei City Museum of Art which won the Merit Award in the international competition. The competition intention was to create a pioneering and innovative design concept which will stand as a new-age landmark and a symbolic voice to the world of Taipei City new spirit. OODA’s concept emerges from a big volumetric cube in confrontation with a smaller inner structure cube – hypercube which is an applied mathematical form that relates both. Then the big outer bisects the clamp (as structural elements) and sucks the in between surfaces to a central point creating a hypercube as the core. More images and architects’ description after the break.