The exchange of proxy for gifts are done through vendors or proxy agents, some of which are companies with shop fronts, while most are guerilla agents with temporary, parasitic set ups that attach themselves to existing restaurants.
Each piece of the color mosaic banner bears the name of the listed companies asking for proxy. These run the gamut of hi-tech mega corporations, heavy industries, financial institutions, etc.
Renown New York drip artist Craig “KR” Costello’s in-situ work on a parking tower in Taipei. Blurred swatches of color drips form this beautiful urban painting.
A specialized cram school franchise for all kinds of public servant qualifications exams, professional licenses, bank certifications, exams for nationally owned enterprises, railroad employees exam, diplomatic exams and even police academy exams! They claim that “if you become a member today, you will become a government official tomorrow”. The facade of this “tower of exams” boldly indicates all types of exam tutoring on offer. The receptionist actually sits on the edge of the building in an open counter facing the sidewalk.
Vegetarian-buffet-boutique where the buffet is served to a looping soundtrack of buddhist chants (majority of pious buddhists strive to become vegetarian as an expression of their faith). It seems this place has been in existence for 23 years with this unique serving of vanity and piety.
Bubble buildings that came in a pair, with domed towers on their roofs, on the edge of Yangming Mountain in Taipei.
A city of fringe netting. The lowly yet pervasive nylon fringe netting used in gas stations is given a monumental application here, plastered over a site about 22,500 square meter (240,000 square feet)!
Water tank city- a housing development in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia- an entire urban enclave defined by the blue water tanks hung outside of each unit.
A little pocket of imperfect urbanism in Kyoto: impossibly steep and shallow stairs to a preschool (kids must have to scale their way through this entrance everyday); and a mini bridge with 50cm high railings and 175cm headroom clearance underneath. Everything is way out of scale here. Very Alice-in-Wonderland.
