Honglu

The first high-rise housing project by Wang Da-hong (王大閎), one of Taiwan’s foremost modernist architects. This four-storey apartment block in Da’an was completed in 1964 under the working name Dahong Apartments. The façade is composed of two asymmetric walls joined at the second floor; all units open onto an inward-facing atrium, a deliberate vertical reinterpretation of the horizontal Chinese courtyard house. Wang and his family lived on the fourth floor from 1965 to 1988, and although owners contested the designation, the building was registered as a city historic building in April 2019.