The firm MVRDV, in collaboration with LLJ Architects, has built a fruit and vegetable market in the east part of the city of Tainan. Reinventing the typology of markets, the building gives views of the surrounding landscape from an undulating accessi
The 37,000-square-meter building for Taiwan’s oldest city presents an inverted stepped shape designed by Mecanoo, the Dutch firm headed by Francine Houben, in collaboration with the local office Mayu Architects. Held up by quartets of slender white c
The Rotterdam firm MVRDV has turned a shopping mall built in the 1980s into a public space with a swimming pool in Tainan, a city in the south of the island of Taiwan. Tainan Spring, as the faciity is called, is part of a larger plan to regenerate th
The aluminum perforated screens of the main facade pay tribute to the Biblical metaphor of the eagle, arranged as feathers. Their orientation is calculated according to the Fibonacci sequence and varies by increments of two degrees from feather to fe
A series of stairways configures the Café and wishes to give a three-dimensional character to an alley in the center of the city, transforming transition spaces into areas in which to stay, spend time and interact socially.
