2025 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Silver Winner

Taiwan Literature Hub

Entrant Company

Hsu, Wei-Jung Architects

Category

Architectural Design - Adaptive Reuse

Client's Name

National Museum of Taiwan Literature

Country / Region

Taiwan

From Grain Bureau Warehouse to Taiwan Literature Hub
Built in the 1950s, this brick warehouse once stored rice for the Grain Bureau. Now reborn as the Taiwan Literature Hub, it holds words, ideas, and Taiwan’s stories.
Its structure retains materials and techniques from the Japanese colonial era. Within its beams and walls, untold languages slowly ferment.
Opening the once-sealed western wall on Shaoxing North Street invited in light and people, reconnecting city and space. A discreet glass elevator merges modernity with the building’s modest past.
To the east, the original concrete wall remains, layered with metal panels that guide the way. A clearer entrance faces Hangzhou North Road, where concrete and metal quietly converse amid staggered greenery.
At the path’s end, a quiet black vestibule awaits—not an end, but the start of a literary journey.

Credits

Architect
HSU, WEI-JUNG
Designer
YU, YU-HSUAN
Designer
HSIEH, JIA-LIN
Designer
LIN, YUXUAN
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