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National Palace Museum Design by Antoine PredockAdopting the Chinese definition for "landscape," Predock's design encompassed the shape of a "mountain" alongside the "water" (the lake) which matches the Chinese definition of "landscape."
From a base of ancient stream-washed Taroko marble, a faceted, jade tinted glass and cypress structure - Jade Mountain - rises from the Museum courtyard, surrounded by a spiralling and unfolding bronze-clad gallery sequence.
Water flows from Jade Mountain to the quarry-like Lotus Pond amphitheater.
The 'Three Friends of Winter', Bamboo, Plum and Pine extend the courtyard garden landscape with fortuitous symbolism.
The Mountain of Longevity and the Sea of Happiness inextricably and symbiotically linked by an internal journey - an episodic scroll - traveling through Asian space and time.
The Taroko base recalls Taiwan's geologic origins.
Slowly rising, the galleries are sheathed in protective bronze skin, patinated to a color like Han chariot figures.
Digital projections internally activate the glass skin of the Jade Mountain and paint the inside of the Media Lantern, reinforcing cultural fusion and programmatic intention.
Lacquered ramps weave through the wood structure as this subliminal procession through Asian heritage culminates in a rarified mountaintop refuge, affording magnificent views over the Museum, lake
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