The Kaohsiung branch of the Grand Hotel, one of Taiwan’s most iconic state-owned hotels. Originally established in 1957 along the Love River, it relocated to its current site next to scenic Chengqing Lake in 1971. The building was designed by Yang Zhuocheng (楊卓成) in the Chinese palace style characteristic of the Grand Hotel chain and has hosted numerous foreign dignitaries over the decades.
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Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
Themes
- KMT Authoritarian Era Taiwan (國民政府時期)
- Chinese Renaissance Architecture (中國古典式樣新建築)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.