10 Stunning Architecture Landmarks in Taipei
10 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall
No. 21 Zhongshan S Rd, Dongmen, Zhongzheng District, 100011, Taiwan
The Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is Taipei's most imposing landmark — a white marble and blue-tile monument on a 25-hectare plaza that honours the Republic of China's founding leader and is simultaneously a political monument, a cultural venue, and the most contested piece of architecture in Taiwan.
Dadaocheng & Dihua Street
No. 4 Dihua St, Fengnian Village, Taitung City, 950022, Taiwan
Dadaocheng is Taipei's oldest commercial district — a neighbourhood of Baroque and Art Deco shophouses along Dihua Street that has been the centre of Taipei's tea, fabric, and dried goods trade since the 1850s.
Longshan Temple
No. 211, Guangzhou Street, Wanhua District, Taipei
Longshan Temple is the most important temple in Taipei — a 1738 Buddhist-Taoist-folk religion complex in the Wanhua district that has survived earthquakes, typhoons, Japanese colonial prohibition of Chinese religion, and a World War II Allied bombing that destroyed the main hall (the statue of Guanyin, the goddess of mercy, survived unscathed in the rubble, which cemented the temple's reputation for divine protection).
Presidential Office Building
No. 122, Section 1, Chongqing South Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei
The Presidential Office Building is Taiwan's most important government building — a red-brick and concrete structure completed in 1919 as the Governor-General's Office of Japanese-controlled Taiwan and now serving as the office of the President of the Republic of China.
Songshan Cultural & Creative Park
No. 133 Guangfu S Rd, Xinren, Xinyi District, 110055, Taiwan
Songshan Cultural and Creative Park is a converted Japanese-era tobacco factory that has become Taipei's design and creativity hub — a campus of Art Deco industrial buildings from 1937 surrounding a central garden with a lotus pond and mature banyan trees.
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall
No. 505, Section 4, Renai Road, Xinyi District, Taipei
The Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall is a monument to the founder of the Republic of China — a massive Chinese palace-style building in the Xinyi District that houses a 5.
Taipei 101
No. 7, Section 5, Xinyi Road, Xinyi District, Taipei
Taipei 101 was the tallest building in the world from its completion in 2004 until the Burj Khalifa surpassed it in 2010 — a 508-metre tower of blue-green glass designed by C.
Taipei Confucius Temple
No. 275, Dalong Street, Datong District, Taipei
The Taipei Confucius Temple is a Southern Fujian-style temple completed in 1939 that honours Confucius with the traditional rites and architectural conventions that have been practised across the Chinese world for over 2,000 years.
Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM)
No. 181, Section 3, Zhongshan N Road, Zhongshan District, Taipei
TFAM is Taiwan's first and most important contemporary art museum — a white modernist building in Taipei's Expo Park that has been the centre of Taiwanese contemporary art since 1983.
Taipei Main Station & Underground Mall
Zhongzheng District, Taiwan
Taipei Main Station is the transit hub of Taiwan — a massive station building connecting MRT, Taiwan Railways, and the High Speed Rail, with an underground city of shopping malls, food courts, and pedestrian corridors extending in every direction beneath the streets of the Zhongzheng district.
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