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Wherever I go, I always seem to end up in a graveyard. This time around, the cemetery belonged to an Aboriginal village in the northeastern part of Pingtung County. Sagaran, known to Chinese-speakers as Koushe (口社), is dominated by members of the Austronesian Paiwan community, Taiwan’s second-largest indigenous ethnic group. Wanting to stretch my legs after a 90-minute motorbike ride, I parked on the edge of the village, and set off on foot down a narrow road. Just as I’d begun to relish the butterfly-rich forest to my left, the tarmac petered out in a dense and somewhat chaotic cluster of ....
The restoration of a Paiwan home in Pingtung County was honored at the DrivenxDesign Awards Program, the Pingtung County Government said on Tuesday. The “Breathable Paiwan Slate House” on Thursday last week won silver in the Architecture-Mixed Use-International category at the awards, which are held annually by Paris-based DrivenxDesign, a “global independent design promotion organization.” The county-funded project was directed by community designers Lin Hui-chen (林惠珍) and Lin Chuan-hsin (林傳馨), who are descendants of the heads of the Pakedavai family, the county government said in a news release. Information that the county submitted to DrivenxDesign said that the 80-year-old slab stone home in ....
WINNER IN FRANCE: DrivenxDesign announced that the 80-year-old stone house in Pingtung County won silver after it was renovated over the past three yearsBy Lo Hsin-chen and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer ....