Taipei Postal Office - Reconstruction

Reconstruction

During the post-World War II period of 1960s, Taipei Post Office tore down its northern wing arch passages, due to the increasing flow of postal service. Moreover, another floor was added to the original three-story building. Although it remained the original colour and pillar-styled design, it was thought to be destruction to the origin.

Because of the dilapidated state of the Taipei Post Office building, postal service officials wished to demolish the whole building ever since 1970. However, the site is historically valued, and therefore the tearing down plan has always been protested and objected by scholars and people. To settle the debate, the ROC Government ordered this post office building to be protected as a third-degree national historic site on August 14, 1992. After 2000, postal service unit switched its usual position and started to furnish the site and to sustain the image as original as possible. But since the tile factory in Beitou has stopped producing the wall tiles, the ex-foliation of the outside wall is still a major problem that needs to be solved.