{"id":155,"date":"2007-03-27T10:33:34","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T00:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediaarchitecture.org\/taishin-bank-tower-teipeh\/"},"modified":"2007-03-27T10:33:34","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T00:33:34","slug":"taishin-bank-tower-teipeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/taishin-bank-tower-teipeh\/","title":{"rendered":"Taishin Bank Tower, Teipeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"549\" height=\"444\" alt=\"Taishin_5_LG (Custom).jpg\" id=\"image165\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2007\/03\/Taishin_5_LG%20%28Custom%29.jpg\" \/>\n\n<p>The majestic Taishin Bank Tower stands approximately 400 feet (120 meters) tall with an elegant architectural design that\u2019s become a new urban landmark in the city of Taipei. Conceived by the renowned architecture firm of Pei Cobb Freed &amp; Partners, the tower\u2019s curvilinear shape mimics that of nearby Jenai Circle, which inspired a uniquely dynamic lighting design by Fisher Marantz Stone (FMS).<\/p>\n\n<!--more-->\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"taishinCS_LG (Medium).jpg\" id=\"image166\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2007\/03\/taishinCS_LG%20%28Medium%29.jpg\" \/>\n\n<p>\u201cThe architect\u2019s concept for the building plan allowed the curve of Jenai Circle to inflect the shape of the building, so we were working with an interesting curve &#8212; almost like the shape of a sail in the wind,\u201d said Charles Stone, President of FMS. \u201cThe second part of the lighting concept called for the introduction of a digital \u2018ticker\u2019 sign like those in Times Square. This idea evolved into a low-resolution information fa\u00e7ade, with the overall impression of a building standing in the wind in the center of Taipei.\u201d <\/p>\n\n<p>via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorkinetics.com\/showcase\/installs\/taishin\/\">color kinetics<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The majestic Taishin Bank Tower stands approximately 400 feet (120 meters) tall with an elegant architectural design that\u2019s become a new urban landmark in the city of Taipei. Conceived by the renowned architecture firm of Pei Cobb Freed &amp; Partners, the tower\u2019s curvilinear shape mimics that of nearby Jenai Circle, which inspired a uniquely dynamic [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediaarchitecture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}