Completion target of 2023 looks unrealistic: reports

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/10/15
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Ministry of Transportation will drop plans for an artistic ceiling at Taiwan

Taoyuan International Airport’s Terminal 3 because the design is too expensive and has resulted in no company biddng for the project, CNA reported Tuesday (October 15).

The Taoyuan International Airport Corporation (TIAC) will present a report to the ministry on Friday (October 18) concluding it is necessary to abandon the plan for 130,000 aluminum tubes in the shape of flowers suspended from the ceiling of the terminal’s departure hall. Last year, TIAC said it had already asked the designers, the U.K.'s Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and Taiwan’s CECI Engineering Consultants, Inc., to alter their plans for the ceiling.    [FULL  STORY]