Firm Description

XRANGE is an architecture and design firm founded 2003 in Taipei by architect Grace Cheung and industrial designer and serial entrepreneur Royce YC Hong. XRANGE operates on multiple scales, incorporating master plans, architecture, landscape, products and concepts with a scope and diversity of projects that is one of a kind in Taiwan.

Steered by the founders’ extensive international background and cultural fluency, XRANGE’s work is characterized by concise strategic thinking, bold forms and distinctive material attitude shaped by the urban contexts of Asia. Inspired by constraints unique to every project, XRANGE’s architecture is systematic, tactile and absolutely unconventional. XRANGE‘s design visions are bold, grounded and inimitable.

XRANGE was named by Wallpaper as one of “101 of the World’s Most Exciting New Architects” in 2007. XRANGE’s first building, the Ant Farm House, was the only project from Taiwan included in “The Phaidon’s Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture”. The work of XRANGE have been exhibited both in Asia and Europe; featured in numerous international media including Monocle, Frame, Surface, I.D. Magazine, Icon, Arbitare, Dwell, the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times. XRANGE’s Principal Architect Grace was awarded two AIA International Design Awards in 2021, the first woman architect of oversea Chinese origin to receive the awards.