Pier2
and Cultural Cruise
One of the things I love most is the adaptive reuse
of old buildings. It��s environmentally friendly, helps
with the preservation of history, and usually quite
cool to look at. Today we��re visiting Kaohsiung��s
Pier 2 Art Center.
To get to Pier 2 you can take the orange line of the
Kaohsiung MRT and get off at Yanchengpu Station.
Pier 2 Art Center is an area about one kilometer long,
and is mostly a bunch of old warehouses, 25 to be
exact. Pier 2 refers to warehouse area 2. So if this
is Pier 2, where��s Pier 1? The American bombed and
completely destroyed it during World War II.
Anyway, some of these old warehouses are art exhibition
spaces now, and some of the warehouses been converted
into wonderful shops, restaurants and performance
venues .
This shop custom makes shirts. You pick the pattern
and fabric, and they��ll put it together for you.
So some of these used to be long, long warehouses,
but they were chopped up to create individual spaces
for different shops. A lot of the concrete walls were
replaced by huge panes of glass that allow in beautiful
sunlight. Once abandoned spaces are now occupied creative
works of art, handcrafted products and young, ambitious
designers.
Trains used to drive up to the warehouses on the pier,
but because the water by the pier is quite shallow,
freight ships had to anchor further out, around here,
and smaller ships would then ferry the cargo back
and forth.
This is the new cultural cruise and I really like
it because you get a chance to get really close to
the research ships, the tug boats, the freight ships,
the navy ships, the coast guard ships.
Close to an equivalent of 10 million 20-ft containers
are loaded and unloaded here each year. Guess how
long it takes a 40-ft container to be moved. Ten minutes?
Five minutes? Less than 2.5 minutes. I think that��s
quite amazing!
If you are in Kaohsiung and you don't know what to
do or where to go, come to Pier 2. Take the cruise
and get on the water, walk around and see the exhibits.
Have some coffee and see how old meets new in Kaohsiung.
I personally really like it here. You should come.
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