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Park1538 Gwangyang Cultural Complex / UnSangDong Architects + POSCO A&C

Miwa Negoro — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Park1538 is a public space embedded within the everyday landscape of Gwangyang, an industrial city known for its steel production. The project was inspired by the name "Gwangyang" itself—'Gwang' meaning light and 'Yang' sunlight—which became a guiding principle in shaping the form and spirit of the space. The resulting architecture captures the flowing rhythm of light through its curved steel surfaces, creating a sculptural yet purposeful structure that embodies both technological and cultural narratives.

Odong Public Library / Unsangdong Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 02:00:00 +0000

Although locals adore Odong Park, they have voiced concerns about a number of issues, including dust from an unsightly area where wood was being chopped. We would want to provide a forest library as a public refuge where we may converse with books because the residents needed fresh architectural proposals.

Bamboo Tower / UnSangDong Architects

Hana Abdel — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 20:00:00 +0000

The Bambu Tower, which is the headquarters of GL associates begins with a concept that combines ‘Space, Designer, Desired’, a space desired by designers’, within the small site between the other buildings that are compactly arranged in the middle of Samseong-dong, Gangnam-gu, the most urban place in Seoul.

Triangle Scape / UnSangDong Architects

Andreas Luco — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

This is a building that connects the merchant community space of the alley market with local residents by reflecting the characteristics of the place located between the Myeonmok-dong market and the residential area. The Myeonmok-dong alley market community is a shared structure for local markets and market merchants in the surrounding residential areas, with the purpose of building a small community with intimacy and individuality for a small multipurpose space and a place for relaxation in the busy daily life of the market.

Chronotope Wall / UnSangDong Architects

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 22:00:00 +0000

The formation of a city in which various architectural types, materials, and forms are constructed is both a strength and a weakness of Heyri Village. It failed to create any order in the province and became a city freely composed of diversity.

Imagination Circle / UnSangDong Architects

Hana Abdel — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 20:00:00 +0000

Imagination Pavillion was a project suggesting the existing old observatory to the new one. The observatory for amusement and a view where we could meet nature and overlook cityscape doesn't only serve functional role but also would like to suggest a pavilion with new imagination. The barrier-free zone which is located along a trail is a regional nature community space that is most loved and used by local people who are meeting nature.

Mongyudowondo Tower / UnSangDong Architects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 18:00:00 +0000

Lie Sang Bong is Korea's leading fashion designer who creates contemporary styles reflecting traditional Korean and oriental aesthetics. His work is famous for getting a motif and inspiration from the Korean alphabet, Hangeul. He does shows in New York Fashion Week and Paris Fashion Week. Unsangdong and Lie Sang Bong have been discussing collaboration for several years as they share the vision that “fashion is architecture and architecture is fashion”. They both believe there is not a clear division among different sectors when it comes to forming a lifestyle.

Midong Electronics & Telecommunications Headquarter Office / UnSangDong Architects

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Headquarter: A headquarter office is the place that understands the culture of the company and delivers comfort to workers; an architecture that embodies the corporate and realizes future value and dream. It should embody the essence of the corporate spirit that communicates with consumers and citizens.

Sopoong-gil Community / UnSangDong Architects

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Sopoong-gil Community is part of an urban renewal program that was not developed by government or local administration. It was rather organized to do what local people wanted by improving the environment with the assets of the local. The steering committee for Sopoong-gil Community has been set in operation since July of 2017 to reflect public opinion on what kind of programs there will be and how to operate them. ‘Sopoonggil Community’, which is more than a mere wheelchair ramp that extends all the way from the 1st floor to the roof top on the 3rd floor, creates community space with no boundary and invites interactive connection with users’ various choice. With the ramp with no boundary, various activities can take place with the needs of everyone who wishes to use it.

Hannae Forest of Wisdom / UnSangDong Architects

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hannae Forest of Wisdom is not a cultural space generated by a big public development project. It was initiated by the idea of a creative space, where people enjoy to inhabit and willing to come back every day. Therefore we improved an abandoned urban space into a unique and attractive space with creative ideas. Development Order is as follow: 1) Requested by Nowon-gu Office as part of the community project 2) There were several options for the site, and through investigation and site analysis, an abandoned fountain space in a neighborhood park was selected 3) Opinion gathered through public hearing 4) Design and development 5) Construction 6) Completion 7) Local committee operates the library, café, and after-school learning class Urban regeneration in Seoul is no longer focused on the city-scale projects that transforms the entire block or the part of the city.

White Cube Matrix: Paju Kindergarten / UnSangDong Architects

Daniel Tapia — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Kindergarten is a space that children create their dreams and imagination. Children bear unpredictable potential alike plain paper. Aggregation of growing cells generates uncompleted spatial expand without defining rigid form and space on architect’s own initiative. In other words, the white cube, the prime unit consisting of the classroom, are three-dimensionally stacked and the complete whole body of kindergarten. These cubic cells aim to contain the attribute of dematerialized space that material feature and morphological completion are eliminated.

Chronotope Wall House / UnSangDong Architects

Cristobal Rojas — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 22:00:00 +0000

Time is trapped in space, yet space has lost time.

Transparent Landscape / UnSangDong Architects

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 01:00:00 +0000

No place is formed without the origin, the past, and the construction. Everything is composed by numerous vestiges piled one by one. By the way of composing accumulation of the vestiges, place's memory and scenery is changing.

Seongdong Cultural & Welfare Center / UnSangDong Architects

Daniel Sánchez — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The city is required the concept of urban regeneration which renews the abandoned and polluted environment. The current concept of urban regeneration is well used as the strategies of new town development. It has the meaning of creating rehabilitation and revival of urban environment, industry, economy, and the culture by providing new programs and physical architectural environments to the decaying existing cities. Rather than simple architectural esthetic controls, new composition of circulation system, which induces new transformation of environment, is required. It has been developed in the direction of cultural device and the community of governance concept to improve the quality of city dwellers’ life.

Hyundai Pavilion / Unsangdong Architects

Jonathan Alarcón — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Though Yeosu EXPO Hyundai Motor Group Pavilion, Architectural work is suggested to convert the corporate brand image, which is creating the innovation of transportation in human history.

The Yellow Diamond / Jun Mitsui & Associates Architects + UnSangDong Architects

Andrew Rosenberg — Sun, 01 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The Yellow Diamond building’s triangular site is located in one of the most dynamic, creative districts in Seoul. Surrounded by several universities, the area has an energy and sense that anything is possible. I felt that uninhibited artistic expression was appropriate for the site. I also wanted to celebrate and inspire the tenants that may occupy this building in the future.

Life & Power Press Cultural Topography / Unsangdong Architects

Sebastian J — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000

We know that we exist not as an individual, but as a unity of many, or even numerous individuals connected to each other. Creating an Publisher's space is not just setting up the exhibition and office space and putting books in it, but drawing a map that covers all the works in the venue. It depends on the map how the viewer will appreciate the space and books. Through the , I have sought to insert 'the vessel of new topography' into homogeneous space. 'The vessel of new topography.' an intervention of a new imagination into the space, works as imaginary texts like those of Jorge Luis Borges. We will make-the "Contour Topography" a space for the' new experience. The Contour space will reflect the real topography by applying the abstract image of it to the floor.

Kring Kumho Culture Complex / Unsangdong Architects

Sebastian J — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000

We, Unsangdong Architects, are proposing a rather unfamiliar approach to architecture, , which was exemplified in Kring_Kumho Compound Culture Space. Brand strategy, once used to be employed only by profit organizations as a means to create monetary assets, has evolved endlessly to reborn. Profit organizations are under more severe surveillance than ever before by public and required to demonstrate social responsibility of their own brand. Branding had been a useful tool for marketing, now it is re-categorized under brand new realm, which includes spatial concept. We would like to focus on new models of branding such as , or . defines any and all marketing activities by profit organizations to provide a space as a direct means to satisfy customers' needs or desire, or offer a spatial experience to customers by making themselves reconsider a profit organization or the image of that particular brand with space.