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Designing identity: Dragon-filled Grand Hotel and pop-era Taipei Music Center
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The two landmarks - the Grand Hotel (top and bottom left) and the Taipei Music Center (right) - paint a vivid portrait of Taiwan's culture and identity.
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TAIPEI – Dragons pour out of every pore of the Grand Hotel in Taipei.
Mr Chen Rong-yu, 78, who is guiding my group of mostly local architecture undergraduates, asks us to guess how many dragons populate the hotel.
