Taichung Green Museumbrary, Taiwan
Japanese studio SANAA has reached completion on its largest cultural project to date, Taichung Green Museumbrary in Taiwan. Set to open to the public in Taichung's central park in December 2025, the 58,016-square-metre building contains an art museum and a city library, spread across eight blocks interconnected with winding walkways. Once open, the Taichung Public Library is expected to house more than 1,000,000 books. Meanwhile, Taichung Art Museum will focus on supporting local artists and connecting Taiwan to the international art scene.
According to the studio, the "museumbrary" was designed with the goal of immersing visitors in the surrounding natural landscape. As with many of SANAA's projects, it has achieved this by maximising transparency, lining the building with glass and metal walls wrapped in a veil of aluminium mesh. Taichung Green Museumbrary's blocky volumes are each raised on columns, creating access routes from all directions.
They are complete with an accessible rooftop with views overlooking the park and city skyline. Whether it is the museum providing visual learning through art or the library offering education through literature, combining the two to create a new multifaceted learning space is one of the main characteristics of this building.
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