Neri&Hu Design and Research Office

The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind.  Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist. -Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Studio Millspace Taipei is a modern metropolis that manages to maintain a sense of community and human scale; alongside new glassy tall buildings, there co-exists charming arcaded low rises from the 70s, while the sub-tropical climate allows for a lush greenery to thrive and interweave throughout the urban landscape. The project site is located in Zhishan, part of Tianmu in Shilin district, which has a particularly rich cultural background. It was a gateway for foreign cultures, and still today, it is the neighborhood where most internatio... More