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Versatile Hanbok Creates Space / Farming Architecture

July 06, 2017

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Architects: Farming Architecture
Year: 2015
Manufacturers: FeeLux, Infull Space, LG display
Professionals: SUUM, Infull Space

Liberty Lounge / Simplex Architecture

July 06, 2017

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Architects: Simplex Architecture
Area: 1263 m²
Year: 2016
Manufacturers: Eagon, HangilTech, Hyundai:, Inoblock
Professionals: Vize, Chungdam E&C Co., Ean R&C, Kodam Engineering, Studio 101, +1

Eco Bridge Design Winner Creates an Undulating Mountainside Infrastructure in Seoul

June 30, 2017

In response to the Yangjaegogae Eco Bridge Design Competition commissioned by the Seoul Metropolitan Government, SLOPEWALK is a mountain-inspired bridge designed by a Lithuanian team, KILD, proposing a structure evoking the “pictorial passage through the southern slopes of the two discontinued mountain peaks of Mt. Umyeon and Maljukgeori Parks.” Seeing a current infrastructural void, the project aims to unite the two neighboring mountain parks over the Gyeongbu Expressway, as a continuation of the sloped landscape.

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Mirroring the Flatness of a Calm River: Cheongvogl Win Seoul Ferry Terminal Competition

June 24, 2017

Hong Kong based architecture firm Cheongvogl has won an international competition to build the Yeoui-Naru Ferry Terminal in Seoul, South Korea. Founded by Judy Cheung and Christoph Vogl in 2008, the international practice aspires to “touch human hearts with poetic senses” through their projects. With that in mind, their winning design impressed an illustrious jury including architects Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA, Nishizawa, and Associates) and Alejandro Zaera Polo of APML. Using an approach called “Poetic Pragmatism” – the design aims to enhance the flatness and monochrome characteristics of the Han River site through its architecture. The masterplan connects the entire design to the city’s existing infrastructure while creating a sense of place along the riverbank.

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Live Urban / Urbansociety

June 20, 2017

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Architects: Urbansociety
Area: 326 m²
Year: 2017
Manufacturers: CN Window, NS Home, Sunjin
Professionals: Yusong Engineering

Vincent Callebaut Imagines Hyperbolic Shaped Forest Suspended Over River in Seoul

June 17, 2017

Vincent Callebaut Architectures have developed a design plan reimagining the riverbank of Yeouhido Park, Seoul. The park is envisioned as an experimental urban space dedicated to sustainable development through a series of interventions - including a floating ferry terminal. Named the “Manta Ray,” the ambition of the proposal is to transform the park into an ecological forest of trees, enhancing its natural irrigation and strengthening the banks from floods. The “permeable landscaping” seeks to reduce floods and rehabilitate urban ecosystems that have become fragmented through Seoul’s rapid built expansion. The vegetation-dominated strategy also seeks to reduce the urban “heat island” effect Seoul has been experiencing due to climate change over the past decades.

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Yeorim / URCODE Architecture

June 12, 2017

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Architects: URCODE Architecture
Area: 323 m²
Year: 2017

Yeonhui-dong Gangnyeonjae / Lee.haan.architects

June 07, 2017

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Architects: Lee.haan.architects
Area: 293 m²
Year: 2016
Manufacturers: Dunn Edwards, Eagon, Red Pebble, VMZINC

Collage Cottage / TUNEplanning

May 26, 2017

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Architects: TUNEplanning
Area: 232 m²
Year: 2016
Manufacturers: American Standard, Eagon, Ikea, LG Hausys

Open Call for a Swiss Room in Seoul

May 25, 2017

A Swiss Room to Showcase Lausanne’s Candidature to organize the 28th UIA Congress.

The challenge posed by this competition is to design a place object which encapsulates the ideas behind the topic of “Architecture and Water”. It involves creating a place to showcase Lausanne’s Candidature which offers an intuitive approach to the multiple ramifications of this topic. It should, effectively, act as a laboratory of ideas. This place-object must be able to house a table and 4 chairs for discussions, presentation of the candidature, etc. It will be located in the hall of the Convention center in Seoul.

MVRDV's Skygarden, a Transformed 983-Meter Former Highway, Opens in Seoul

May 20, 2017

Today the Mayor of Seoul opened the Skygarden, a 983-meter elevated walkway designed by MVRDV which utilizes a formerly abandoned highway in the center of the South Korean capital. Located in Seoul's Central Station district, the 16-meter-high linear park features a living catalog of Korea's indigenous plants, featuring over 24,000 individual plants from 228 species and sub-species. The Skygarden is known in Korean as Seoullo 7017, a name which references the Korean for "Seoul Street," and the 1970 and 2017, the years in which the structure was originally built and subsequently transformed.

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Dongduk Women's University Centennial Memorial Hall / HYUNDAI Architects & Engineers

May 17, 2017

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Architects: HYUNDAI Architects & Engineers
Area: 24666 m²
Year: 2016
Manufacturers: Trespa, Z:in

Tetris Nursery / IROJE KHM Architects

May 17, 2017

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Architects: IROJE KHM Architects
Area: 291 m²
Year: 2016
Manufacturers: Daesung ENG, Glastone International, PNS Thezone Window&Door

Call for Proposals: Yangjaegogae Eco Bridge Design Competition

May 15, 2017

The Seoul Metropolitan Government is promoting the Yangjaegogae Eco Bridge Design Competition which connects green areas that were disconnected for the Gyeongbu Expressway. The Yangjaegogae Eco Bridge Competition aims to connect green axis, as a part of the Ring of Green Phase of the 2030 Seoul Park and Green Basic Plan, also targets the preservation of wild animals and plants by obscuring animal’s roaming routes and improving citizens’ convenience by connecting with the Seoul Trails.

Dongdaemun Silver Care Center Design Competition

May 15, 2017

Growing the aging society, the demand for nursing homes has been expanding due to the rapid increase in the elderly population and the increase in dementia patients. However, seoul city has a low rate of utilization of facilities compared to the demand for nursing home. To address this problem, the design competition that targets experts in the areas of domestic and international civil engineering, architecture, and the landscape design have been announced in order to create a efficient space design and family friendly urban elderly nursing home models.

Korean Curiosity: Is Seoul Experiencing a "Neo-Brutalist Revival"?

April 25, 2017

During his frequent travels to Seoul, Hong Kong- and Singapore-based photographer Raphael Olivier noticed a new trend taking the South Korean capital: a crop of geometric, concrete buildings of all genres. He calls the new style Neo-Brutalism, after the modernist movement that proliferated in the late 1950s to 1970s, in which raw concrete was meant to express a truth and honesty. Olivier's observation led him to capture the phenomenon in a personal photo series—a photographic treasure trove of these projects which, when taken as a whole, uncovers a cross-section of this trend in the city's architecture.

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