Winner of the 2023 WLA Awards – Merit Award in the Built Large Landscape Design category
THE SITE
The Dark Line is located in northeast Taiwan, a tropical mountainous region. In the 1920’, a colossal railway project was undertaken to transport coal and agricultural goods to the ports of Keelung and Taipei. In the 1980’, this first railway line was replaced and abandoned.
THE QUESTION
Tourism became the area’s main asset after the coal mines’ closure; New Taipei City initiated a program of cultural hiking routes, linking historical trails, abandoned industrial sites, and old railway infrastructure.
In 2018, a competition was launched to build the 3km section between
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