Name: 【TEDx】Grace Cheung at TEDxTaipei
Uploaded: 2017-07-29T13:43:39.000Z
Duration: 18 min 8 s
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I’m from a small town on the east coast of Borneo (Malaysia).

In my teens, my family emigrated to Canada,

we went from a tropical paradise straight to this frozen land.

My post graduate studies took me to New York City,

to a 3-4 year adventure in this grey concrete jungle.

to the glitzy neon fantasies of Hong Kong.

I worked on the Chin Suei highway rest stop in Taiwan.

I made took form as an absolutely real building.

people came to camp out on the grounds, barbecue, hold car meets.

The renown movie director Tsai Ming-liang

did an unforgettable musical sequence in the toilet.

illegal extensions to increase retail area.

I feel really strongly that we architects

will invariably ask me these 3 questions.

For example, this is my favorite building,

an entire building facade made of stairs.

I think it’s incredible that this exists.

the proxy wars of major Taiwanese corporations

The idea of “spiritual uplift” is so potently expressed here.

The temple is all about spiritual uplift,

Abroad, we could never ever get this mixture,

To me, these phenomena emerged from the city,

represent the collective desires of its citizens.

as they are automatic or self-generated urban phenomena.

I think Urbanmatic indirectly affects my designs sometimes,

while at times it can be a direct inspiration.

This building here seems fairly normal, nothing unusual.

But on closer inspection, all the ground floor shops are beetle nut vendors.

These typically scattered road side shacks actually organised as a “beetle nut main street”.

making a looping ring high up on the 7th or 8th floor,

A hand made bridge,an umbilical cord linking the buildings together.

A hand made bridge, an umbilical cord linking the buildings together.

where the entire street becomes an architectural space.

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【TEDx】Grace Cheung at TEDxTaipei

constantly

entire

incredible

embrace