Alice found this Tamkang University 淡江大學 building in Taipei extremely intimidating.
There is one entrance, but where are the windows? It is a huge blue box with no windows!
It looks very impressive from the outside, but Alice doesn't think she wants to be inside the building!
Alice took this photo for the steps to the giant door of National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei. In the good old days, every imperial Chinese architecture (or at least those official one) has to have an impressive set of steps. Ordinary people had to walk up those hundreds of steps to pay honor to the emperor or deities (or officials). These steps are supposed to humble the ordinary citizens and remind them the greatness of whoever is inside the building.
It was a very different mindset back then.
