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Open Call: International Competition for Nodeul Dream Island

The Metropolitan Government of Seoul announces an international competition in order to establish a music-led cultural complex by 2018, in which domestic and oversea specialists from various fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design are invited to participate. The government have established a program including the necessary facilities and the scale considering citizen participation and publicity for the realization of the proposed operation program.

Call for Entries: International Competition for Horse Park in Yeongcheon, Korea

Korea Racing Authority (KRA) launches an international competition for the design of a Horse Park in Yeongcheon, Korea.

This one stage project competition in accordance with the UNESCO-UIA regulations has been approved by the UIA.

KRA intends to develop on a 1,474,883㎡ site "LetsRun Park Yeongcheon", a theme park about horses incorporating a racetrack that will hopefully become a local attraction. Its goal and purpose is to improve the overall image of horse racing and contribute to the horse industry, become tourist destination and attraction that enriches the local economy, and bearing a profit, provide an exemplary model for theme park development.

2015 Restaurant & Bar Design Award Winners Announced

The winners of the seventh annual Restaurant & Bar Design Awards—the only awards in the world dedicated to the design of food and beverage spaces—have been announced in London. Out of over 860 entries from the United Kingdom and 70 other countries, 36 designs were awarded, with two grand prize winners.

The winners of the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards are:

Winning Design for Seoul's National Assembly Smart Work Center and Press Center Unveiled

South Korean Haeahn Architecture, in collaboration with New-York-based H Architecture, has won a competition to design the Smart Work Center and Press Center at the historic site of the National Assembly Complex in Yeoido, which is the largest island in the Han River in Seoul.

The 23,750-square-meter building will be flexible in its uses and support "legislative functions of the National Assembly." Overall it will “house five distinctive programs: a press center with a briefing room alongside a small broadcast facility with a workplace for reporters; a highly-equipped smart work center which serves as a remote workplace for commuting officers and Ministers for the government; supplementary office spaces; underground parking; and welfare facilities which will include a restaurant, a banquet hall, and a retail component that will be accessible to both government workers and the general public.”

Open Call: Sejong-daero Historic Cultural Space Design Competition

The Seoul Metropolitan Government has announced its Sejong-daero Historic Cultural Space Design Competition, which seeks creative designs for the site of the former National Tax Service Building, as well as a greater conceptual blueprint for the central Seoul area.

MVRDV to Transform Abandoned Highway in Seoul into Lush Skygarden

MVRDV has won a competition to transform an abandoned elevated highway next to Seoul's Central Station into a 938 meter-long skygarden. The ambitious project, dubbed the "Seoul Skygarden," aims to "build on the city's ambition to be greener, more attractive and more user-friendly," while acting as a catalyst for the surrounding neighborhoods. 254 species of trees, shrubs and flowers will take over the overpass, creating a unique "library of plants" organized according to the Korean alphabet. Even more, the skygarden will cut pedestrian commutes to the station by more than half, reducing the walk from 25 to 11 minutes.

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Extrude / studio_GAON

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  • Architects: studio_GAON
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  70
  • Professionals: Starsis

Gablepack / AND

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  • Architects: AND
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  493
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2014

‘The Rock’ Sangsu-dong office / designband YOAP architects

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  • Architects: designband YOAP architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  110
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2014

Office PARK-NG / IROJE KHM Architects

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  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  304
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2011

Planning Korea Designs Resort Hotel for PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics

Seoul-based architecture and art practice Planning Korea has unveiled their design for a seaside resort hotel, to host visitors to the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. Offering 946 rooms and sprawling across a 29,493-square-meter site, the hotel will offer a combination of marine and mountain leisure activities.

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Residence Hall of Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary / SAC International

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HWA HUN / IROJE KHM Architects

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  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  441
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Danpal, Gessi, Vibia, Artemide, LG Hausys, +3

Customi-Zip / L'EAU design

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Gwacheon-si, South Korea
  • Architects: L'EAU design
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  560
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2013

ZEROPLACE / Z_Lab

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  • Architects: Z_Lab
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  422
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2012
  • Professionals: Zinyong Construction

Korea Gas Corporation Headquarters / Samoo Architects & Engineers

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Gumam Sungmun Church / Oh Jongsang

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  • Architects: Oh Jongsang
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  758
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2014

adidas Superstar Hall of Fame / URBANTAINER

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  • Architects: URBANTAINER
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  355
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2015
  • Professionals: Bilden Kuma