TAIPEI | Gate of Taipei | 322m | 1057ft | 76 fl | 243m | 797ft | 56 fl | Prep

yoyoyo · September 26th, 2006, 01:14 PM

Height: 322.2m / 243m
Floors: 76 / 56
Architect: Fumihiko Maki
Developer: CECI

Notes:
Advertising Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki has been chosen by a Taiwan consortium to design the Taipei Twin Tower, a new landmark for the capital city scheduled to be launched in 2011, a city official said.

Maki, 77, has been named by the China Engineering Consultants Inc (CECI) to design the Taipei Twin Tower, part of the urban renewal plan involving expanding the Taipei Railway Station and developing surrounding areas, Lee Shang-jui, from the Taipei city government's Department of Rapid Transit System (DORTS), told reporters.

"The Taipei Railway Station will be rebuilt so that it can link up with the high-speed railway and the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line linking the Taipei Railway Station and the Taiwan Tao-yuan International Airport," Lee said.

"In 2011, foreigners arriving at the Taiwan Tao-yuan International Airport will take the MRT line to the Taipei Railway Station, and see the Taipei Twin Tower when they come out of the Taipei Railway Station," he said.

The Taipei Twin Tower will be two matchbox-shaped commercial complexes -- one 322.2m tall with 76 stories, and the other 243m tall with 56 stories.

They will stand west of the new Taipei Railway Station which Maki will also design. Maki has called his design the "Gate of Taipei."

On completion, the Taipei Twin Tower will become Taiwan's 3nd tallest building after the 508m Taipei 101 and the 347.5m Tuntex Sky Tower in Kaohsiung.

Lower Tower (C1):

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Originally Posted by williamchung7

This is best rendering I can find in my folder for C1 tower (the lower one).

yoyoyo · September 26th, 2006, 01:23 PM

mikeleg · September 26th, 2006, 01:25 PM

Huge boxes

ahmedjam · September 26th, 2006, 02:01 PM

wow! cool project, and I like the box design in the towers

Phobos · September 27th, 2006, 12:11 AM

Too boxy IMO.

The_Big_O · September 27th, 2006, 05:36 PM

Kind of boring, IMO.

ZZ-II · October 29th, 2006, 05:31 PM

massive tower!!

Erebus555 · October 29th, 2006, 06:09 PM

All looks very nice. Still cant quite work out the shape of the tower but Im sure it'll come to me at sometime. Skyway looks impressive and very big. Be a great photo op when its built.

Harkeb · October 31st, 2006, 03:46 AM

Yeah, Taipei needs more highrises to compliment Taipei101. And box shapes are good too to give it a real city skyline, unlike Dubai & Shanghai's fantasy skylines with too many odd shaped towers.

jason poon · October 31st, 2006, 02:03 PM

A little bit simple.

ZZ-II · October 31st, 2006, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by harberk

Yeah, Taipei needs more highrises to compliment Taipei101. And box shapes are good too to give it a real city skyline, unlike Dubai & Shanghai's fantasy skylines with too many odd shaped towers.

a 2nd 500m+ tower would be great

Nongkhai_tong · October 31st, 2006, 04:32 PM

300 up is not bad ha.... great news for TAIPEI.

Surumi · October 31st, 2006, 04:35 PM

Too boxy in my opinion, but the design is not bad.

xiaoluis · November 1st, 2006, 05:33 PM

yeah! Taipei needs more supertalls , 101 tower looks so "alone"

Mosaic · November 1st, 2006, 05:50 PM

very good news for Taipei!!!.

delahaye · November 4th, 2006, 11:56 AM

Massive! Together they must have several hundreds of thousands of office space.

Dr Drums · May 24th, 2007, 09:05 AM

Any update about this project???

superchan7 · May 24th, 2007, 10:02 AM

For those who are unfamiliar with Taipei's skyline, this will be in the downtown core, far away from Taipei 101 (off to the east in a new ground-up commercial district sort of like La Defense of Paris). The skyline around 101 will not be harmonized in any substantive way with this new building.

I personally find the building a bit simplistic in form, but Japanese architects are known to have good taste in detail, so let's hope for the best.

Woolie · May 24th, 2007, 03:51 PM

Hmmm, not very exciting IMO. Maybe the models don't do it justice..? The render looks a little better.

UD2 · May 24th, 2007, 08:41 PM

look like the cell phone tower in Shanghai.

Taipei's got horrible urban planning, they keep on building towers like they they'll never have a skyline. and the 101 will always remain a needel.

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Surumi Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 73 Likes (Received): 0	Too boxy in my opinion, but the design is not bad.

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xiaoluis BANNED Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 0 Likes (Received): 0	yeah! Taipei needs more supertalls , 101 tower looks so "alone"

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delahaye Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Hammersmith Posts: 102 Likes (Received): 0	Massive! Together they must have several hundreds of thousands of office space.

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Woolie Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Location: Lansing, Michigan Posts: 143 Likes (Received): 0	Hmmm, not very exciting IMO. Maybe the models don't do it justice..? The render looks a little better.

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UD2 A very cool person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Toronto Posts: 1,322 Likes (Received): 0	look like the cell phone tower in Shanghai. Taipei's got horrible urban planning, they keep on building towers like they they'll never have a skyline. and the 101 will always remain a needel. __________________ "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed" - President Eisenhower

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