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Take a look at Reiser+Umemoto's completed Kaohsiung Port Terminal

2024-06-01T10:00:00-04:00

Reiser+Umemoto, RUR Architecture DPC has shared new photos of their recently completed Kaohsiung Port Terminal project in Taiwan’s busiest commercial port.

The nearly eight-year construction exemplifies the firm’s conception of “3D Urbanism,” breaking apart the design vertically across three separate datums that carry different functions for passengers and pedestrians as oriented to the existing city grid.

Image courtesy Fei & Cheng Associates

The firm explains: “RUR’s work with 3D Urbanism comes from a long-standing set of explorations challenging the monofunctionally of infrastructure projects which are traditionally conceived and designed to do a single task well, much in the vein of civil engineering. RUR takes an architect’s approach to infrastructure, which eschews monofunctionally in favor of polyfunctional spaces which productively transform the terminal typology from an inert piece of urban hardware into a dynamic space of civic, cultural and commercial interchange.”

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RUR Architecture completes the Taipei Music Center's Performance Hall

2020-09-03T12:52:00-04:00

RUR Architecture's (formerly Reiser + Umemoto) 756,000-square-foot Performance Hall at the Taipei Music Center (TMC) has officially opened with its first concert planned to take place this month. Located in the Nangung District, the project sits on a 9-hectare site in Taipei and is dedicated to the performance, production, and celebration of pop music in Asia.

"Ten years ago, the outskirts of Taipei were characterized by industrial areas situated right up against verdant, forested hills," said Jesse Reiser, Principal at RUR in a statement. "There was, and still is, no gradual transition of city to suburbs – in fact no suburbs at all. The effect of that contrast is a striking juxtaposition between city and nature. Once the old industry was removed and the Taipei Music Center was constructed, we found that nature and new architecture amplified each other’s beauty. Taipei Music Center functions as a discrete urban organism within the natural landscape, an urban peninsula connected to t...

New Monograph highlights Reiser + Umemoto's visionary oeuvre

2019-09-25T17:30:00-04:00

Reiser + Umemoto have followed up their previous monograph, Atlas of Novel Tectonics, with a new tome: Projects and Their Consequences.

The monograph, published by Princeton Architectural Press, includes interviews and essays as well as more than 400 original drawings collages, and paintings.

Site model of the West Side Convergence development. Photo courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press.

Rendering of Erwanping Station. Photo courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press.

According to the Princeton Architectural Press website, Projects and Their Consequences "presents fifteen key projects from leading architectural thinkers Reiser + Umemoto...[tracing] thirty years of innovative, multidisciplinary investigations of form, structure, technique, and planning...Large-format and beautifully designed, it is a necessary volume for architects and those interested in the intersection of architecture, art, and culture."

Rendering of the Eyebeam Museum. Photo courtesy of Princeton Architectural...

Kaohsiung Port Terminal by Reiser + Umemoto in more detail

2013-12-07T02:44:00-05:00

In our last update, Reiser + Umemoto celebrated the groundbreaking of the Kaohsiung Port Terminal in Kaohsiung, Taiwan this past November. Although there aren't any construction photos in the meantime, you can get a better look of the yet-to-be-built terminal with plenty of awesome images we recently received from the firm.

For more, head over to Bustler.

Images courtesy of Reiser + Umemoto.

Reiser + Umemoto announces groundbreaking of Kaohsiung Port Terminal

2013-11-08T15:47:00-05:00

After two years of planning, Reiser + Umemoto announced the groundbreaking of the Kaohsiung Port Terminal happening this month in the city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The architecture firm won the 2010 international competition to design the cruise ship terminal and port service center. Reiser + Umemoto also celebrated the groundbreaking of another major Taiwanese development they won, the Taipei Pop Music Center, on June 19, 2013.