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Mangrove Dongdaemun Co-living / COM

Hana Abdel — Thu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Transforming Hospitality into Home - Mangrove Dongdaemun, once a conventional business hotel, has undergone a remarkable transformation into a vibrant co-living community accommodating over 300 people, redefining urban living in the heart of Seoul. In an era marked by uncertainty in residential choices, the emergence of coliving presents a novel alternative, fostering a shared living experience within meticulously crafted spaces for comfortable dwellings. MGRV, the visionary behind this project, articulates a vision to transcend the conventional notion of lodging and cultivate a communal living environment reminiscent of home, where individuals seamlessly coexist amidst intuitively designed communal and private spaces, fostering harmony.

YeongJong Do Onnuri Church / shinslab architecture

Hana Abdel — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 02:00:00 +0000

The Yeongjongdo Onnuri Church stands as a unique religious center on a developing island near Seoul, South Korea. Its design integrates the symbolic form of Noah's Ark with the practical concept of upcycling dismantled ship hulls. The building's bow, which is pointed skyward, serves as a powerful visual reminder of the ark. This project promotes the concepts of scale, ready-made elements, and sustainable reuse. Fragmented sections of the recycled ship's hull become integral parts of the church's architecture. Steel, a readily available and highly durable material, finds renewed purpose in its elegant, curved forms.

nok, 錄 Restaurant / orosy studio

Hana Abdel — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 03:00:00 +0000

The brand Nok originated from special memories of eating out that were difficult to enjoy as a child, especially the meat grilling culture that has an important meaning in Korean life.

SKIN1004 Flagship Store / LMTLS

Hana Abdel — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 23:00:00 +0000

Located in the vibrant heart of Myeong-dong, Seoul, the skin1004 flagship store emerges as a distinctive presence in a saturated landscape of skincare boutiques. The essence of this differentiation lies in meticulous, creative space design, serving as the cornerstone for shaping the brand's unique identity and resonance with the public. As the pioneer of the first offline flagship store in Myeongdong, skin1004 embraces the profound concept of "untouched nature," liberating itself from the cliche of nature in green hues. Instead, it introduces a newly crafted landscape, bathed in rich brown and beige tones inspired by the pristine nature of Madagascar, surrounded by rocks, pebbles, and sand. The design aims to offer a distinct experience by blending various landscapes within the urban environment. This intentional contrast with the bustling city outside creates a captivating space, sparking curiosity and providing an intriguing escape for visitors.

demer coffee / design by 83

Hana Abdel — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 01:00:00 +0000

Demer Coffee is a charming cafe located in front of the historic 40-Step Stairway in Jungang-dong, within the vibrant Jung-gu district of Busan, South Korea. Long ago, in the midst of the Korean War, refugees established a shantytown in this neighborhood with views overlooking Busan Port. The 40 Steps in Jungang-dong became a path rich in history and meaning. It was a daily route for the shantytown’s inhabitants as they traveled to and from the port for work, and it also served as a communal spot where they would wait and meet with others several times throughout the day.

Confier Restaurant / stof.

Hana Abdel — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 17:00:00 +0000

The contemporary Korean-French fine dining restaurant, "Confier," already well-known for its exceptional cuisine and performances in Dosan Park, has recently opened near Seoul Station.

Ernest Café and Wine Bar / orosy studio

Hana Abdel — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Liberation from everyday life.

Sailing House / IROJE KHM Architects

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 02:00:00 +0000

Dialogue with horizon - The owner of this house and his family selected this recreational seaside residential site beside Incheon Bridge as their last nest of life after finishing their nomadic life as urbanites of modern society. They wanted to dream about their unpredictable future of wishful life, looking over the horizon of the sea.

Piknic 2020 Cultural Centre / Indiesalon

Hana Abdel — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 19:00:00 +0000

Renovation of A multi-cultural space. We renovated Goshiwon(share house) which was built with red bricks in the 1990s and located at the foot of Seoul Namsan Mountain. The place could remain as just the old past, but we upcycled the place into a complex cultural place coexisting with a cinema room, café, restaurant, and design shops. Architecture put efforts into making a cultural space that can be absorbed with the recent and the futural possibilities as he recorded the time inheritance of the existing building.

TENT Whiskey Bar 2nd / Plainoddity

Pilar Caballero — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 02:00:00 +0000

2nd after 1st. Located in Chungmuro, it is a bar reminiscent of the modern Daegamma of Joseon (nobility of old). In the case of the 1st store, just as whiskey develops different flavors and colors during aging in an oak barrel, the bricks also differ depending on the material of the soil and how they are baked.

Reebok Flagship Store / NiiiZ Design Lab

Hana Abdel — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 02:00:00 +0000

Sportswear is on the trend ever since the popularity of sports from tennis to golf began. In addition, functional clothes such as gorp-core-look are combined into daily fashion, the item goes beyond the concept of sportswear and are incorporated into fashion item and are gaining popularity among the public through collaboration with luxury and overseas brand.

MOWa Restaurant / Design Studio Maoom + 134

Hana Abdel — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 02:00:00 +0000

MOWa is a Korean - food style wine dining where 2,000 bottles of wine mysteriously shine corridor. MOWa is a wine dining where you can pair wine with Korean cuisine. Just like the empty spaces in glass have a purpose, margins can mean emptying, and sometimes they can mean filling. We approached the space from the perspective of the 'margin' in Korean painting. Through MOWa's interpretation of the Korean aesthetic of margin, memories of emptying, filling, and enjoyment cycle through.

pcmc Restaurant / oftn studio

Hadir Al Koshta — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Located in Sindang, Seoul, pcmc is an abbreviation for pitching machine. Pcmc was inspired by street culture, graphics, architecture, music, and art, and by modernizing traditional Korean liquor. It suggests a new highball culture and is also intended to contribute to and enjoy Korean alcohol and food culture.

adidas Asia Pacific Flagship Seoul / Various Associates

July Shao — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

First Asia Pacific adidas flagship in Myeongdong, Seoul - Featuring the "Home of Sport" concept, adidas has opened its first Asia Pacific flagship store in the unique and bustling shopping district Myeongdong, a must-visit spot in South Korea. Various Associates, the only Chinese design firm that participated in the flagship design, partnered with adidas to extract local Korean elements and blend them with adidas brand personality, creating a "home of sport" with closer connections and deeper resonance with local customers. The store integrates into the bustling streets of Myeongdong, where diverse types of business and public activities take place. Surrounded by the cooking aroma among small stalls, this flagship creatively conveys the core value of friendliness and inclusiveness from the overarching concept of "Home of Sport".

Curving Block Studio / sukchulmok

Hana Abdel — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 07:00:00 +0000

A giant toy "Curving Block" in Anyeong-dong, Daejeon - SukChulMok Studio designs huge block-shaped buildings for employee welfare spaces of baby products companies. The building with PTFE tents on the concrete walls maintains the unique flexibility of the tent and exhibits geometric shapes in exquisite combination with concrete. The space is used for relaxation and filming purposes.

Café Bon9 / PRACTICE + HOFFICE

Hadir Al Koshta — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 01:00:00 +0000

Located on Yeongjongdo Island, this space is a cafe where pets and owners can spend time together. The space was designed by Seoul-based design studio PRACTICE and Hoffice in collaboration. The cafe consists of a total of three floors, and each floor has a different space composition. The seating space is designed in different ways for people to have various experiences.

Sewoonsangga Re-Structuring Citywalk / modostudio

Valeria Silva — Wed, 03 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

For many years the Seoul city planning Department has activated a process of enhancement of public pedestrian spaces and paths through the creation of a large infrastructural network able to fluidify pedestrian paths and connect different areas of the city at different levels; ground, underground, and aboveground. This process includes the project of re-structuring the Sewoonsangga Citywalk.

Café dof / designstudio.ure

Hana Abdel — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 20:00:00 +0000

Since the Joseon Dynasty, the Euljiro area has developed into a metal manufacturing and processing industry. At that time, the area around Euljiro was also called 'Gurigae' because it looked like copper glistening in sunlight from a distance. Euljiro, where the sound of metal being cut and overlapped, and the momentary light at the moment of welding fills the streets, creates a unique atmosphere where the old and the new coexist.