The Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs recently selected the winning design for a large-scale redevelopment of Huwei’s Beigang River and Anqingzhen waterways. MVRDV’s Hoowave Water Factory strategic masterplan and a landscape design was selected as the winner. The proposal aims to modernise the town’s waterway network, ditching the purely mono-functional approach that controls and directs water. Instead, the town will soon have a system that captures and stores water for use and gives space to the river, to nature, and urban life. The masterplan gives the town a comprehensive strategy for flood resilience while improving the quantity and quality of the town’s available water, as
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