With Markus leaving Taiwan there are a few activities that we need to clear out of the way before he is granted access to the United States, we have not been the bessst at meeting up, but in the last few days we have made some pretty serious effort to meet up and redress the…
Looks like we got an answer to our big question! Yes. I do! There has been more than a little controversy over this proposal… which surprise surprise turned out to be a fake, and an attempt to drum up business for the world’s (maybe) tallest building. The cost for proposing in this way? About 300,000…
Taipei 101 – now available for rent … I wonder if she said yes? … Quite a trend of using the world’s tallest buildings to propose, eh Ele?! 🙂 The story of a British Industrial Designer in Taiwan…
Thursdays has become a regular eating session amongst my friends and I. In tribute to Nick’s very particular stomaxh problem, where he cannot eat cooked food, we have labelled these weekly feasts ‘Raw Thursdays’. Just a bunch of guys eating raw food, basically. It’s quite interesting and a challenge to find food that Nick can…
I haven’t really said too much about the new office location. Over Chinese New Year we shifted from the sticks of Shilin to the bright lights of Keelung and Jhongxiao. Downtown baby! The investment in the new place is impressive, easily putting it on par with many European offices. The office is small (we seem…
I have a love/hate relationship with Taipei 101 – the world’s tallest and most over-decorated building. On the one hand I like the fact that it is unashamedly Asian and Chinese in style, but frankly I think that is no excuse for the heavy handed detailing and curious lack of height perspective as a result…
After pushing my parents through jet lag hell and tempting them with (bad) coffee and (good) bread at Wendel’s we headed off to see some sights. I had not been to Taipei 101 yet, which holds several of the records for the tallest building in the world. It is not quite as simple as you…
Since I was still under the impression on Monday that I had an apartment at this point I decided to do some tourist things and go off and see Taipei 101 – the tallest building in the world. Sadly it was not open yet. However the mall next to it is and is more like…