When Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu of Shanghai-based Neri&Hu Design and Research Office were commissioned to design a hotel in Taipei, they were presented with something between an adaptive-reuse project and a blank slate.
The 15-story tower they had been given to work with, in the upscale Da’an district of the Taiwanese capital, had been newly designed and built for high-end apartments. But the developer’s 11th-hour decision to make it a hotel instead left it mostly an empty shell, save for a few flourishes, like a traditional Chinese-style garden (nice enough to keep), black-granite neoclassical facades (too late to change), and two Corinthian columns in a marble-clad lobby (which had to go).
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