The proposed Taichung Gateway park by Stan Allen Architects will create a new urban district on the site of the former airport in Taichung,
The park, measuring 250 hectares, will provide the structure for future architectural and cultural development of the district.
Stan Allen Architects will also be designing several buildings to be integrated within the park.
The following text is from Stan Allen Architects:
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SAA’s design integrates movement, program and ecology into a single system. The new image for the site is an immense green tract, an active site that distributes people, goods, bio-matter and energy throughout the site. It not only functions as the scaffolding for future development, but the figural void of the park creates a strong and progressive image for the future of the city.
Our proposal creates a single unifying element that incorporates as many program elements as possible: circulation, green space and natural ecologies, new cultural institutions research facilities, as well as major public attractors.
The new parkway infrastructure defines a zone of intense design investment while strategically opening up edges of the site to existing urban development pressures.
The project has just been awarded a Progressive Architecture Award (P/A Award) that should be announced in New York later this week.
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Posted by Rose Etherington
January 17th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
::sigh::
January 17th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
“… cause you are the wind beneath my wings…”
January 17th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
“The park, measuring 250 hectares, will provide the structure for future architectural and cultural development of the district.”
So it’s not really a park at all? It seems like more of a development framework.
January 17th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
A slight correction, the project won a “Drawing of Progressive Architecture Award”. It’s not really architecture until it’s built.
January 18th, 2008 at 12:31 am
“…the figural void of the park creates a strong and progressive image for the future of the city.”
umm. okay.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:06 pm
do you know peripheriques architects….?
February 29th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
I’m so glad to see someone’s attempting to improve the environment we live.
I was born in Taichung by the way
October 3rd, 2009 at 4:26 am
That’s a truly beautiful design. However, the proposed area, at the former municipal airport, is basically a horrifically congested ghetto. I would hate to see this idea go the way of the“metro park”concept, which is nothing more then fields of mud and tasteless sculptures.