Huashan 1914 Creative Park

Date CapturedMay 30th, 2015 at 10:34 UTCCameraNIKON D3100LensAF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED IIApertureƒ / 8Shutter Speed1/500 secFocal Length18.0 mmISO400Exposure Value15.0 EVOriginal Size3600 × 2400

A lively creative park and exhibition space on the site of a former winery and camphor refinery. The brewery was established in 1914 as a sake plant and was absorbed into the government monopoly in 1922, thereafter producing rice wine and an assortment of other liquors. It enjoyed a post-war golden age churning out cheap cassava-based spirits and fruit wines before rising land prices and water pollution prompted a move to a new factory in Guishan, Taoyuan, in 1987, leaving the old works idle.

From the late 1990s artists campaigned to reuse the abandoned buildings, which reopened as the Huashan Arts District in 1999. Following a major renovation it relaunched under private management as Huashan 1914 Creative Park in 2007, and today its restored brick halls host exhibitions, performances, shops, and cafés.

The site once held two company shrines, neither of which survives: the Taipei Winery Shinto Shrine (臺北松尾神社) on the brewery side, and the Taipei Camphor Works Shinto Shrine near the present National Audit Office (審計部), a branch of the Kusunogi Shrine (久須乃木社) at Nanmen.