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  1. AUG 25Culture

    Shilin Night Market Grew From a Temple Forecourt

    Before Shilin Night Market spread through the surrounding streets, trade gathered around Cixian Temple and a public market built across from it. Universities, cinemas, road construction, and a 12-year market reconstruction later transformed the district, but the temple forecourt remains one of its historical anchors.

    The front of Cixian Temple in Taipei, with rows of red and gold lanterns framing its carved roofline and a large incense burner centered before the steps.

  3. AUG 25Design

    Zaha Hadid’s Danjiang Bridge Leaves Room for the Sunset

    The 920-meter Danjiang Bridge now links Tamsui and Bali at the mouth of northern Taiwan’s Tamsui River. An interview with its project architect and photographs from a first-crossing event show how the bridge combines a single sculptural tower, a slim steel deck, and unusually restrained infrastructure design.

    A high-angle view down the bridge deck, with a concrete tower centered between dense rows of white cables and a crowd filling the lanes on both sides.

  4. AUG 25Design

    A Tainan Courtyard House Makes Its Repairs Visible

    A century-old courtyard residence in Tainan has been adapted into an exhibition venue without concealing the difference between its historic fabric and new interventions. Exposed masonry, a folded timber roof, and repairs that emphasize existing cracks turn the building itself into part of the exhibition.

    The inner courtyard of a restored two-story residence in Tainan, with weathered gray walls, carved facade details, new wood doors, and Chinese headline text across the lower half.

  5. AUG 25Design

    Taipei’s Theater of Stacked Boxes and a Sphere

    OMA won the 2009 competition for Taipei Performing Arts Center with a proposal that joined three theaters to a central cube. Completed in 2022 beside Shilin Night Market, the building carries that early experiment into a public venue for performance and everyday circulation.

    A nighttime aerial view shows Taipei Performing Arts Center’s silver spherical playhouse projecting from a dark central cube, with rectangular theater volumes and the illuminated city and river beyond.

  7. AUG 25Food

    Taipei’s Extra-Long Pig Blood Cake Comes Coated in Peanuts and Cilantro

    Zhu Dalang serves one of Taiwan’s most familiar street snacks on an unusually long skewer, coating the steamed blood-and-sticky-rice cake with sauce, peanut powder, and cilantro. Photos from a franchise stall show how the snack is made, while a recent price increase reveals how even a classic small purchase is changing.

    A Zhu Dalang sign and a posted notice saying pig blood cake costs NT$50 from May 1.

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