A New Museum of Art for Taipei City

This remarkable project is architects' OODA proposal for the New Taipei City Museum of Art. The brief was to create pioneering and innovative design, which will "stand as a new-age landmark".

The structure is a hypercube - an applied mathematical form that relates to a big volumetric cube with a smaller inner structure cube.
Better than any description, the incredible images will tell you how this entry won the Merit Award in the competition to give voice to Taipei City new spirit.

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Image courtesy of OODA.

Origami Tower, the Heights Of Taiwan

Building and hosting the world's tallest building is an interesting competition, and Taiwan is bound to have a place in it. Or rather, two.

Little after Taipei 101 was outrun by Burj Khalifa, here is the next exciting project. This 300m tall tower is yet to be build but will incorporate designs from the diamond industry and vaguely remind of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Another source of inspiration was origami, the ancient art of folding paper. A further mention to the star/sun reference in the Taiwanese flag and we get the picture: a sharp and slender tower, which was effectively rendered in a thunderstorm.

Design is by OODA and OOIIO.
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