Representative buildings from that period include Taipei City Hall (now Zhongshan Hall), Taipei High School (now National Taiwan Normal University), and Taipei Imperial University (now National Taiwan University). Those buildings were all the work of Ide Kaoru, the influential chief architect of the Governor-General's Office who advocated "localization" of Taiwan's architecture.
當時台北幾棟重要建築，如台北公會堂（現中山堂）、台北高等學校（現師大）、台北帝國大學（現台大），都是這個時期最具代表性的建築，且皆由時任總督府營繕課長、也是提出「台灣建築地方化」，對台灣建築影響深遠的建築技師井手薰所設計。