MAD architects shows China and Taiwan can cooperate on architecture, in a mountainous wayPosted by hipstomp

While China has a reputation for farming big architectural projects out to the Western world of design, Beijing-based "design collaboration" MAD is a more-or-less homegrown firm that does work in both Asia and abroad. Headed up by Beijing native Ma Yansong, MAD has just made quite the architectural splash with their design of Taiwan's Taichung Convention Center. In their own words:

The design is conceived as a continuous weave of architecture and landscape that blurs the boundary between architecture, public space and urban landscape, proposing a futuristic vision based on the East’s naturalistic philosophy. This project inherits Chinese architecture's long-standing attitude towards holistic integration and order of space. It employs the Eastern philosophy of a harmonized synthesis between human and nature. In the face of the project's enormous scale, the architecture no longer exists as a series of individual blocks, but instead is unified as a collective form. The resultant space enclosed within comes into focus, in a natural order emerging from air, wind and light, fostering a resonance between human and nature.

Check out more of MAD's work here.