Nighttime photo of Taipei’s futuristic-looking Agora Garden Tower
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/11/02
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Agora Garden. (Photo by Instagram user @Adam Woolhether)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — An American-Canadian marketing manager took this photo of Agora Garden Tower (陶朱隱園) in Taipei’s Xinyi District looking highly futuristic and a bit alien.
The photographer, 30-year-old Adam Woolhether (吳亞當), who works as a global marketing manager for AsiaYo.com, captured the image in Taipei’s Xinyi District on Oct. 27. On Oct. 29, Woolhether posted the image on Reddit with the title “See the PROOF that ALIENS have landed amongst us in Taipei?” where it soon received 104 upvotes and 17 comments.
As for Woolhether’s inspiration for taking the photo, “I love futuristic architecture that has an alien-like feel to it. They did a great job with this building.”
Agora Garden Tower, also known as Tao Zhu Yin Yuan Tower, is a sustainable building created by Belgian architect named Vincent Callebaut, whose inspired for the tower was the shape of the double helix structure of DNA. After his firm Vincent Callebaut Architectures was awarded the bid to create the building in 2010, Callebaut decided to erect a structure that was “like an inhabited tree,” that could create a green urban landmark for the city with a minimal carbon footprint. [FULL STORY]
