A glassy cube of epic proportions with strange protrusions has crash-landed at the southern edge of the Shilin Night Market, one of Taipei’s busiest centers of trade and tourism. A sphere hovers in space, visually fixed to the corrugated glass curtain wall and assisted by nothing other than a slender pair of pillars that terminate in the plaza several stories below. The fact that the hefty-seeming volume is also supported by an internal concrete frame is, even upon close inspection, neatly concealed by layers of sumptuous veneers.
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