Kris Yao | Artech’s New Taipei City Art Museum Bridges Art and Community | Architectural Record

Flowing down from the peaks of central Taiwan, the Dahan River widens as it enters the southern suburbs of Taipei, occupying a broad, rocky riverbed nestled among the mountains. Alongside it runs Taiwan’s main north–south rail line, and clustered around one of the stations lies the tightly packed township of Yingge, once a center of the island’s ceramics industry. Here, just a few hundred feet from the station entrance, the rectangular form of the New Taipei City Art Museum appears to rise out of the riverbed, its exterior adorned with silver tubes of varying lengths, punctuated by two small volumes projecting outward. Designed by the prominent Taipei-based firm Kris Yao | Artech, the museum glints mysteriously in the sun, beckoning you to cross the narrow footbridge that links the town to its entrance.

Source: Kris Yao | Artech’s New Taipei City Art Museum Bridges Art and Community | Architectural Record