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Pier-2 Art Center is an arts district in former harbour warehouses in Yancheng and Gushan, built in 1973 and turned over to artists in the 2000s by the Kaohsiung Bureau of Cultural Affairs. The concrete warehouses hold exhibitions, shops, a cinema and the Hamasen railway museum, linked by a waterfront path and the light rail.
The Former British Consulate at Takao stands on a hill in Gushan District above Sizihwan Bay and the entrance to Kaohsiung Harbour. The red-brick consul's residence with arched verandas was completed in 1879, and an old path leads down to the consular office by the harbour. Both buildings hold exhibitions on the treaty-port era.
The National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, known as Weiwuying, is a performing arts centre in Fengshan District designed by Francine Houben of Mecanoo and opened in 2018 on a former military camp. A single wave-shaped roof covers an opera house, concert hall, playhouse and recital hall, and an outdoor theatre opens onto Weiwuying Metropolitan Park.
The Fongyi Tutorial Academy in Fengshan District, east of central Kaohsiung, is a Confucian academy founded in 1814 by Jhang Ting-cing, where students prepared for the imperial examinations. Restored by the city after 2007, its brick and timber buildings include the gatehouse, the lecture hall, student rooms along two corridors and a shrine to Wenchang, god of literature.
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