iTaipei (China Trust Hotel)京站TAIPEI

[williamchung taiwan]

by Taiwan ren

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http://www.skyscrapers.cn/forum/view...ge%3D2&page=48

[Razqal]

nice, but it doesnt look like the rendering in the billboard.

[williamchung taiwan]

Originally Posted by Razqal

nice, but it doesnt look like the rendering in the billboard.

that rendering is the sense of night

[williamchung taiwan]

from skyscrapers.tw
by coffeemilk1984

9/26

[giallo]

Sigh...
This design already looks 25 years old and it's not even finished. Why, Taipei, why?

Seriously awful stuff.

Thanks for the update, william.

[ed21x]

yeah, it's definitely nothing spectacular, but it is an improvement on the overall urban landscape, and i welcome such changes big and small and we should be thankful that the fins aren't as big as in the renderings

[williamchung taiwan]

I really hate the residential part on the middle, it so ugly !!
But I like hotel and office.

[Razqal]

Originally Posted by giallo

Sigh...
This design already looks 25 years old and it's not even finished. Why, Taipei, why?

Seriously awful stuff.

because taiwanese just cannot design. plain and simple. the country seriously needs an infusion of foreign architects and send local designers/students abroad to get retrained.

[Razqal]

Originally Posted by williamchung taiwan

I really hate the residential part on the middle, it so ugly !!
But I like hotel and office.

i never understood the concept. why build residential apartments above a noisy and polluting bus terminal anyway?

[williamchung taiwan]

Originally Posted by Razqal

i never understood the concept. why build residential apartments above a noisy and polluting bus terminal anyway?

I have no idea,too.
This project combines residential apartments,shopping centre(on the bottom),hotel(on the left hand) and office(on the right hand).

[williamchung taiwan]

Originally Posted by Razqal

because taiwanese just cannot design. plain and simple. the country seriously needs an infusion of foreign architects and send local designers/students abroad to get retrained.

I think they just choose wrong Taiwanese architects.
This project is designed by the same person who design Taipei 101, Mr. Lin.

[ed21x]

oh, i thought this was a CY Lee design,

[Razqal]

Originally Posted by williamchung taiwan

I think they just choose wrong Taiwanese architects.
This project is designed by the same person who design Taipei 101, Mr. Lin.

i still think taiwan should hire more foreign architects just like china (and other asian countries) have been doing. the beijing bird's nest stadium, the water cube, the beijing opera house, beijing airport, cctv office building, shanghai financial tower, jin mao, on and on and on have ALL been designed by foreign architects and they all helped to put china on the global architectural map. even with taiwan having the world's tallest building still does not get taiwan global recognition. sad...

i know developers try to cut costs hiring local designers, but i think it's more wasteful to spend money on architects that produce mediocre buildings that does nothing to beautify the country's landscape (or even worsen it) than to spend more on constructing buildings of quality architecture.

on a positive note, kaohsiung stadium, taipei twin towers, taichung opera house, national palace museum chiayi branch are all great designs and will be constructed albeit some on a slower pace than others.

[SpeedoPro]

that is one ugly building. i try hard not to puke every time i see the hideous colors. C.Y.Lee needs to be sent to jail.

[Australiasian]

yeah, looks pretty shitty to me.
we seriously need some more quality buildings man...

[Razqal]

it looks nice from this view:

[williamchung taiwan]

[Australiasian]

thanks for posting.

[SpeedoPro]

the atrium looks bland and boring; and the hedious colors aren't helping.
dont expect anything better from CYLee.

[ed21x]

the design is actually fine. It's the color that ruins it. Imagine if the brown was replaced with granite or marble this could actually be a very classy looking building.