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Tokyo Toy Museum Seoul / maumstudio

Miwa Negoro — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0000

"The very first artwork we encounter in life is a toy." Maum Studio has created a play space filled entirely with wooden toys: Tokyo Toy Museum Seoul. Since its opening in 1984, the Tokyo Toy Museum has operated 14 branches across Japan, and now its story continues here in Seoul.

Raw House / Order Matter

Miwa Negoro — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Raw House is a mixed-use development located on the East side of Seoul, South Korea, designed to harmonize with its natural and urban surroundings. The project includes a café, residential flats, and a penthouse that also serves as an office space. Its southern façade frames expansive views of the surrounding lush foliage, inviting nature into the interiors, while the northern façade takes a more reserved approach, creating a buffer from the street. This contrast highlights the project's tectonic design, with the bold materiality and clean lines establishing a strong architectural presence that balances openness and privacy. The brief, written by the architect, was to create a durable structure that prioritises spatial clarity and lived experience over market expectations or visual excess.

Urban Lining –KN GLOBAL Headquarter / ZAIRA Architects & Engineers

Hana Abdel — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 02:00:00 +0000

The site is located at the southern end of Gwangjin Bridge, on a trapezoidal plot that had long been left undeveloped. The road in front, known as "Cheonho-dong Tool Street," is somewhat bustling, but once the building is completed, it will offer a picturesque view of the Han River framed by Achasan Mountain. The front and rear roads, with a 3.6-meter elevation difference, allow for easy underground parking without additional excavation. The client decided to build an office on this site, aiming to minimize construction costs and time by utilizing the existing terrain for a quick move-in. Due to the nature of neighborhood commercial facilities, the floor plan was significantly influenced by regulations and economic factors, requiring careful consideration of the façade and material expression.

The Red Brick Library / G/O Architecture

Hana Abdel — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 02:00:00 +0000

The library did not define its purpose by allowing it to be used in various ways, breaking away from the stereotype that it is a space for only reading books. Various spaces such as bar tables, seminar rooms, and long tables are good for use alone or for many people.

The Blue Moon Office / G/O Architecture

Hadir Al Koshta — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 19:00:00 +0000

The Blue Moon is a village community space for communication among local residents by utilizing the space in the region. There are many performance clubs in Godeok-dong. Gangdong-gu tried to create a space in this neighborhood where people can share hobbies and fun with various neighbors, including performance clubs. It's not a big place, but many people come to practice playing, perform, and talk about each other.

T Roof Commercial and Residential Building / SOSU Architects

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

T-Roof is characteristic of three roofs as shown in the name of it. Vertically separated mass in consideration of the scale of the existing city has been finalized with the same materials with an external wall in consideration of how the roof was regarded as one particular front view in the importance as a landscape shown from a high-rising office nearby.

Gangil 119 Fire Station / OA-Lab

Hana Abdel — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 22:00:00 +0000

From vehicle-centric to people-centric - The “Gangil 119 Fire station” is a new fire station located in the Gangil area, a newly developed area following the Seoul Metropolitan City(SMC)’s urban design district plan at the southeastern periphery of the city. We approached the design by focusing on the question of what role the fire station should play in contemporary times. After studying existing fire stations built in Seoul under the same building regulations and programs, we proposed a fire station that focuses on the quality of firefighters’ working and living conditions. During the last several decades, it is dominant in the design process for fire stations that a garage to contain a large volume of fire engines becomes the center of the design compositions, thus spaces for firefighters such as offices and standby rooms are treated as periphery functions. Our goal was how to overcome the typical types, by reframing the fire station as a building for people while keeping its fundamental operations run well.