California-based GDS Architects' new proposal, dubbed Infinity Tower, is designed to disappear from its Korean skyline. How? Cameras will be mounted at six strategic points; thousands of LED screens on the facade will then broadcast the real-time photos captured and logged by the cameras. Though no estimated completion date has been announced, the developers have received construction permits to break ground. More about this incredible vanishing act and how it's done at Fast Co-Design.
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Honeybee Lounge / poly.m.ur
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Architects: poly.m.ur
- Area: 208 m²
- Year: 2012
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Manufacturers: Investwood, Amkel, LG Hausys, Tectum
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Professionals: AI plus, Seorim Bangjae
Magok Central Plaza Winning Proposal / Wooridongin Architects
Located in the intersection of the pedestrian axis of Festival Street within the heart of Magok city in Seoul, the competition winning proposal by Wooridongin Architects for the Magok Central Plaza weaves itself into the surrounding city. The plaza is a great traffic node since it is where the subway lines 5, 9 and Incheon Airport train cross. Its close location to Han River greenery and ecosystem aligning with the River, Jungang Park and Green Area Connectors makes it to be part of a continuous open space system. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Jaehoon’s Jip-Soori / Moohoi Architecture Studio
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Architects: Moohoi Architecture Studio
- Area: 298 m²
Beyond the Screen / OBBA
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Architects: OBBA
- Area: 128 m²
- Year: 2013
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Professionals: YIINSIGAK, TEO Structure, Wonwoo Engineering
Buk Seoul Museum of Art / Samoo Architects & Engineers
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Architects: Samoo Architects & Engineers
- Area: 17113 m²
- Year: 2013
Chopsticks / studio VASE
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Architects: studio VASE
- Area: 95 m²
- Year: 2013
Yujin’s Jip-Soori / Moohoi Architecture Studio
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Architects: Moohoi Architecture Studio
- Area: 127 m²
- Year: 2013
Lotte Amoje, Food Capital / Karim Rashid
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Architects: Karim Rashid
- Area: 900 m²
- Year: 2013
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Manufacturers: Muma
'Mood Map' Exhibit / E/B Office
Built and exhibited at “Data Curation” in the Museum of Art at Seoul National University, ‘Mood Map’ visualizes the moods of Korean people in color and light through textual analysis of their Tweets on Twitter. Designed by E/B Office, they created a custom software program in Processing that will search and analyze Tweets in Korean language through the Twitter API. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Naegok V house / jhy architect & associates
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Architects: jhy architect & associates
- Area: 294 m²
- Year: 2012
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Professionals: Timetech, Homesys Korea, Moa Engineering
A+animal hospital / jhy architect & associates
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Architects: jhy architect & associates
- Area: 53 m²
- Year: 2012
Changing the Mapo Oil Reserve Base Competition
Open to students and professionals, the Seoul Institute just launched the international ideas competition for the first step to changing the Mapo Oil Reserve Base, a relic of the industrial era. Located in Sangam, this area was once an abandoned mountain of waste, but now stands as a state-of-the-art city that leads the future of Seoul. Aiming to achieve a communication and co-existence between people and nature, the oil reserve base will be returned to the citizens through the ideas of students and professionals who reflect the meaning and value of the land and regenerate the space to meet this new era’s core values of environment & ecology and sustainable future. The deadline for submissions is August 23. To register, and for more information, please visit here.
'Plushscape' Installation at Interspace Dialogue Exhibition / ALLTHATISSOLID
Taking place at the Seoul Museum of Art, the 'Total Theatre: Interspace Dialogue' exhibition is featuring the Plushscape installation by Max Kuo of ALLTHATISSOLID. Curated by Regina Shin, the exhibition, which is also a film festival, borrows Gropius and Piscator’s concept of a new kind of theatre to realize a cinema inside of the white cube of a museum. In response to the curatorial agendas of Interspace Dialogue, Plushscape seeks to agitate and amplify the somatic conditions of the viewers’ bodies providing more spatial possibilities in their haptic response to the screening films. More images and architects' description after the break.
H&M Seoul Hongdae Store / D.LIM architects
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Architects: D.LIM architects
- Area: 271 m²
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Professionals: OJ DESIGN, R.C. Structure
Stardom Entertainment Office / D.LIM architects
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Architects: D.LIM architects
- Area: 548 m²
- Year: 2012
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Manufacturers: Danpal, DVP
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Professionals: Eun Structural Engineering, Hitec Engineering Co.Ltd, JAEJIN Construction