NTUT’s green gate won a gold medal May 27
at this year’s FIABCI World Congress in TaichungCity.
(Courtesy of Taipei Tech)

Taiwan won one gold and three silver medals at this year’s awards for excellence May 27, given by Paris-based International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI) at its World Congress in Taichung City.

National Taipei University of Technology won gold in the environmental section for its ecological campus design, including the Green Gate main entrance, the water-recycling bioswale for fish, and the rooftop ecological way station for birds.

The nation’s silver medal winners were Tainan City’s Anping Harbor linkage project, the Dreams, Future and Angel Life pavilions at Taipei Expo Park and the Crystal House apartment block in Taichung City, in the environmental, public works and sustainability categories, respectively.

The medals won this year bring Taiwan’s haul to eight golds and 17 silvers since 2007.

NTUT’s Green Gate has won numerous honors, including the Taiwan Real Estate award for excellence and Taipei Urban Landscape prize last year. The judges at this year’s FIABCI awards said the gate’s design, with its eight-story high glass fiber tree trunks, climbing vines and watering system brought the gate to life as a green landmark.

Although the campus is downtown, the roofs can be used by birds as way stations and roosting places with open platforms and trees, so that concrete structures do not interrupt their ecological network.

Tainan City government’s project to create a channel linking Anping Historic Scenic Park to Anping Harbor goes some way to returning the area to how it was when Zheng Cheng-gong, or Koxinga, landed there in the 17th century.

The contours of the new pavilions at Taipei Expo Park follow the site’s terrain and its design uses energy-saving technology, while the Crystal House in Taichung was praised for its use of recyclable materials in an earthquake resistant design. (SDH)

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