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A baroque-style building in the downtown area in front of Taoyuan Railway Station is very eye-catching and has become famous overseas. It has caused heated discussions on the American forum “Reddit”. The low-key owner surnamed Xiao clarified that there is no Hunchback of Notre Dame or vampires inside, and he just wanted to build a building. This unique and aesthetic office has taken seven and a half years to build and the decoration is still not completed. He joked: “It will be the most powerful building in Taiwan in the future!”
The 54-year-old homeowner surnamed Xiao is a real estate investor. He studied design and often traveled to Europe. He felt that Taiwanese houses were too commercial and craftsmanship. He wanted to build an elegant building in Taiwan and bought the Taoyuan Station shopping district. About 50 square meters of land was built, and materials such as pink granite were imported from abroad. It was originally expected to be completed in 4 years. Unexpectedly, the main body of the building alone took 5 years to complete, including 1 underground floor, 7 floors above ground, and 3 additional floors. Buildings with high landscape levels.
A baroque building appears in the downtown area, which is very eye-catching. The reliefs on the walls and female statues add a mysterious color to the building. At night, with lights, foreign netizens exclaim that it looks like a vampire’s lair. From time to time, it attracts Shanghai and Japanese TV stations to come and film. . The owner surnamed Xiao laughed and said that there is no Frankenstein or vampire here, and he is not a 90-year-old man. After the completion, he will build a company office and a private guest house. However, he also lamented that the process is very difficult. It is still being decorated and the completion date “cannot be imagined at all.” ”.
The owner surnamed Xiao is also open to visiting the still-decorated house. Different from the grand style of the exterior, the inside is like a European palace with exquisite workmanship. The walls and ceilings are full of hand-made reliefs, and each appearance is different, and the building materials are more advanced. It uses fireproof and waterproof materials, and he supervised the construction without sleep or rest. He joked that it will be the most powerful building in Taiwan when it is completed.
The persistence of the owner surnamed Xiao also impressed the senior craftsmen. The construction site director surnamed Zeng said that in more than 30 years of working in the industry, it was the first time he had encountered such complicated workmanship, especially the owner’s concrete was very hard. Generally, the weight of a building is about 3,000 pounds. Here it is hard. Double the weight to 6,000 pounds, which makes ordinary hammers and nail guns useless, and even the needles are bent and dented. The owner strives for perfection and has to dismantle and redo the work if it is not up to standard. Although it is hard work, he is also looking forward to the finished work. .
The owner surnamed Xiao admitted that he had burned “several hundreds of millions” so far, but the energy and effort he had put in was even more difficult to estimate. “Youth is priceless!” The concept of doing things personally and persevering made him laugh at himself: “I was very handsome. Now it has become LKK!” But he firmly believes that architecture is originally an expression of art, and he hopes to leave a building to the Chinese people that will make people forget to leave.
