A four-story early modernist office block built between 1937 and 1940 to serve as the Taipei City Hall (台北市役所) under the Japanese colonial administration. It was designed by Shinohara Ryō (篠原良) and clad in the brown camouflage “national defense color” tiles common to wartime official buildings. After 1945 it housed the Taiwan Provincial Administrative Executive Office and then the Taiwan Provincial Government before being handed over to the Executive Yuan in 1959, a function it has retained ever since.
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Heritage Status
- National Monument (國定古蹟)
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Modernist Architecture in Taiwan (台灣現代主義建築)
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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.