On your right, look up past the long blue construction fence for a tall, slim residential tower with stacked balconies and a little “cap” at the top.
This is Cosmos, known in Chinese as 寶璽天睿, rising out of Taichung’s 7th Redevelopment Zone like a confident exclamation point. Construction kicked off in 2012 and wrapped in 2018... six years of planning, building, and probably a few “are we there yet?” meetings. The finished stats are the kind developers love: about 149.65 meters tall, 38 floors above you, and four basement levels below-because in Taiwan, even the ground gets used efficiently.
What’s really fun is the design team: Japan’s Masatoshi Katayama, Canada’s Michael Green, plus KYDO. And inside, the lobby goes full “don’t touch anything”: a 10.6-meter-high hall with Asia’s only ARS Murano glass chandelier, built from 120 handmade pieces and priced around 400,000 euros… roughly 440,000 dollars today. It even snagged a European design award in 2019.
When you’re ready, Royal Landmark Tower is a 2-minute walk heading southwest.
