Huashan 1914 Creative Park
Red-brick former sake distillery turned gallery and concert complex behind a landmark smokestack.
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This guide to Huashan 1914 Creative Park in Taipei opens with a theater troupe breaking into a condemned sake distillery in 1997 to stage an illegal play. It traces the building back to 1914, when it brewed a rice wine nicknamed Moth Orchid Sake, through its absorption into a state monopoly and its abandonment in 1987 once pollution complaints pushed the operation to the suburbs. Listen for the old smokestack still marking the skyline above the brick warehouses.
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