Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel and Partners is set to design the latest addition to Taipei's skyline ? a green bamboo-shaped skyscraper that will house not one, but two luxury hotels.
The Italian multi-disciplinary design practice is creating the 280-metre-tall Taipei Sky Tower (TST) for Taipei-based developers Riant Capital Limited.
With its curved edges, angled tip and grooved green glass facade, the new skyscraper blends visual references to both Chinese bamboo shoots and the pleated columns of ancient Greece, according to the developer.

In a statement Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel and Partners (APVC), Riant Capital and Hyatt Hotels said the TST will combine "some of the oldest elements from the East and West in modern harmony". APVC will also design the interiors for the Park Hyatt Taipei, one of the two Hyatt hotel brands that will have a presence in the TST.
The interiors of the second hotel in the tower, the Taipei Andaz, are set to be designed by Shanghai-based architecture and design practice Neri&Hu.
Lyndon Neri and Rossanna Hu are well versed in delivering this kind of brief. For their hotel redesign of Beijing's Opposite House, they created bespoke glass interpretations of the city's traditional food carts to furnish an events room.

The two practices from "different cultural backgrounds, generations, and aesthetic styles" were selected to create distinct identities for the two Hyatt brands, in what will be the hotel chain's first d...