Ceramic roof decoration

Ceramic roof decoration

2013年9月15日 星期日

old taiwan architecture

With the purpose of preserving  beautiful architecture of old days . Selected  icons of  past  Taiwan are posted . Under lyric , narrative or critical eyes all features  explores  a forgotten  era , although it  is receding, concealing  , fading away but still remains the  charming  beauty of a lost era .  those  fusioned  cultural efforts , decayed asethical achievements   .  Memory of fading  dreams  awaking with  jerks of astonishing happiness . photos of tradition and colonialism  settled  secular corners ,  urban poverties and deserted receding  streets   detailed architectural out looks of  run down houses,   rottened  attractions  or wrecked structures  lament the  glamour pride  of past  existences . Nightfalls  recall ordeals of people . Vaguely,  crescent moon gazes at lonely  strollers  . Fears of life is always hide in the shads. 
Chinese architecture can not be isolated from the influences of Middle Asia , Arabic , India , and the surrounding minor ethics , as it is by the Western , Japan ,  ... of today . Culture influence has a mutuality  character in nature . has many faces expressed in architecture . 
Taiwan is an Island , has fainter  connections with Main Land  China in the occupation years . The imperialist draws Taiwan society further departing from China  . Today ,   remains of eclecticism , functionalism   architecture can be found in Taipei, Kaohsiung , Keelung, and other cities .  Such  as  tobacco mills , engine maintenance factory , sugar plants , wharfs , warehouses , air fields , .... . Some cities or townships have been planned   according to their geological character and natural resource . But the progress after recovery  by Chinese are even impressive  . Today, high raises towers . pedestrian malls , modernism architecture faces wilder , cleaning streets give the world  another wonders of  human achievements .