The Green Museumbrary in Taichung, Taiwan’s second largest city, has officially opened. Designed by the Japanese firm SANAA – Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa – in collaboration with the local firm Ricky Liu & associates, it puts two traditionall
Assembled with larch wood pieces, Tsumiki Pavilion – designed for World Flora Exposition 2018 – is set out as a prototype of democratic architecture, where anyone can participate in the building process.
Taking the image of a cypress forest as reference, evoking the name of the company founder, the tower vanishes in a play of reflections on the facade as it rises. The collages and initial models were very important in the design of the skin and volum
This pavilion is a multiuse space, 10 m high with a floor plan of 9.2 x 30 meters, in the centrally located Huludun Park. Its structure, built with 320 bamboos grown over three years and 30.000 bamboo leaves, evokes the experience of ‘walking through
The Taiwanese city of Taichung, third by population size after Taipei and Kaohsiung, seeks to increase its international presence through the promotion of art and culture. Located in the Gateway Park area – a new landscape and cultural precinct in th
Under construction since the end of 2009 and with an area of 34,067 square meters, the building for the National Taichung Theater is organized as a three-dimensional space with a neuronal form that evokes a network of natural caves and in which three
One single orthogonal volume, strategically situated on the plot, rises from the ground creating a protected urban square underneath. The museum and library programs intertwine and shift throughout the building’s interior circulations.
The project rethinks the library and museum programs, making them coexist and cooperate in a polygonal and flexible mesh structure. The purpose of this approach is to achieve urban, social, programmatic and architectural permeability.
Two transversal axes organize the site, turning the TCCC into a door of access to Gateway Park. On a smaller scale, those same axes arrange the form and program of the building, with the library and museum placed at different heights.
The project is conceived as a transition space between Gateway Park and the city, proposing an artificial topography that buries the museum program and supports a longitudinal piece housing the library and a tower containing offices.
Ten different-sized volumes intersect or separate from each other, generating inner courtyards in accordance with the programmatic needs.The volumes rest on the ground or are raised to provide the building with shaded public spaces. The pieces are p
The project for Taiwan Tower, rising 300m, proposes a new type akin to a transparent cloud. The structural frame evokes banyan trees, and the floating-rooftop the Taiwanese island of Formosa...
The project, third prize in an international competition, covers 70 hectares and aims to represent different stories about daily life in Taiwan, about its past and about its rich environment...
Surrounded by three new significant buildings (the town hall, the municipal assembly and the national opera house), this oriental Guggenheim is designed as a linear and elongated piece that is crossed from side to side and that performs as a link bet
Based on the visual language of the railway tracks that currently interrupt transit in the city, a new layer of transportation lines will link up with the existing ones to generate a linear park integrating new functions... [+]
Incapaz de competir en tamaño o peso político con Taipéi, la ciudad de Taichung se ha afanado durante varias décadas por convertirse en la capital cultural de Taiwán, y hoy puede presumir de varios museos nacionales y de un teatro de la ópera diseñad
Speaking of metaphors, Toyo Ito also often resorts, with greater or lesser success, to analogies and comparisons. His latest major work, the building for the National Taichung Theater – a complex with an area of 34,000 square meters and whose constru
