Royce Hong is an occasional photographer, life-long motoring enthusiast, designer by training, entrepreneur by circumstance, and bona fide architecture voyeur by osmosis. Born in the USA, he lives, slaves away and creates gadgets and things in Taipei for most of his life. He has a two-headed day job at XRANGE and IPEVO, a creator of cool hardwares for enhanced Internet experience.
Grace Cheung lives and works architecture in Taipei. Born in Malaysia, she has lived in 9 cities on 3 continents, travelled to many more for both work and leisure, speaking 3 languages and 3 Asian dialects. Besides cooking, motoring, fashion, music, art and English bulldogs, her creative outlet is XRANGE, an architecture and design office founded by her and Royce Hong in 2003, and selected as one of “101 of the most exciting young architects in the world” in 2007 by Wallpaper magazine.
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Urbanmatic a collection of environments and urban spaces that are off most radars; spaces that we hustle in and out of everyday here in Taipei and other places we’ve lived-in, visited, or longed to visit. Urbanmatic is a by-product of modern cities, scripting its new found contexts as it evolves. These are places and spaces that inspired us.
