land-studio:

In the words of Laud8 landscape urbanism blog:

Designed by Guallart Architects with its local partner J.M.Lin The Observer Design Group, Keelung Port project is a part of the plan: “to create new ‘Gateways’ in Taiwan, oriented toward defining the interaction between the port and the city.”

Laud8 goes on to list the objectives and strategies of this urban design initiative:

• To create a symbolic and functional centrality.
• To reinforce the urban structure connecting the east and west of the city with a civil axis.
• To obtain new spaces of public amenities.
• To reinforce relational uses.
• To reorganize the transport area.
• To restructure the area of socio-cultural amenities.
• To extend the area of pedestrian connection.

Read Laud8’s full project profile here.