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Care and Wellness Center for the Elderly and Disabled / sol89

Cristina Popescu — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 03:00:00 +0000

The South Korean city of Paju has grown through high-density residential developments, resulting in a generic periphery often lacking quality public spaces. It is within this context that the new Care and Wellness Center for the elderly and people with disabilities is situated. Instead of the two separate buildings requested in the competition, we opted for a unified, compact, and porous design that allows the adjacent metropolitan park to flow through the building. This creates an internal public void that reinterprets the Korean madang, a kind of courtyard with a communal purpose, as a place for meeting and relaxation. It naturally separates the various programs, reinforces the connection with the park, and creates an environmental oasis within the dense urban fabric.

Stream Eyewear Starfield Village Unjeong / RVMN

Miwa Negoro — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:00:00 +0000

If eyewear in the past was consumed primarily for vision correction, today it has come to be recognized as a small fashion item that expresses one's identity, shifting the direction of the eyewear market as a whole. Following Suwon, the second location—STREAM EYEWEAR Unjeong—breaks away from the conventional image of an "optical shop," redefines STREAM's brand presence, and unfolds with a narrative unique to Unjeong.

Geumchon Oulim Centre / 818 architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 02:00:00 +0000

A city is alive, constantly evolving and establishing a dynamic balance through the interactions and events between people and places. Non-organic structures preserve their form by resisting external influences, whereas organic structures gain vitality by adapting to and interacting with their environment. The process of embracing differences and engaging with others fosters creativity while shaping subtle boundaries that respond to relationships and urban demands.

Simon House / D-Werker Architects

Valeria Silva — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 18:00:00 +0000

The client wanted to build a house that would grow older together with him. Just like his own desire to become older as a parent on whom his two children, who are now teenagers, would be able to come back to rely even after they go out to the world in search of their own lives in the future, he wanted his house as well to be the place where his children could come and rest at any time.

Zip Cinema / poly.m.ur

Andreas Luco — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Zip Cinema is a premier film studio in Korea known for an extensive list of blockbuster titles such as Jeon Woochi :The Taoist Wizard (2009), Cold Eyes (2013), and The Priests (2015) and they were working on a plan to build a new headquarters. First meeting with the client took off amicably as both parties were committed to the same goal: zip, which is the name of the studio and also means ‘house’ in Korean. However, decision by Zip Cinema, a studio that produced 10 movies in the last 10 years, to partner with a relatively new architecture firm with a decade of history may have been somewhat unexpected at first. Moving away from Gangnam, major commercial area of Seoul, and relocate its headquarter to Paju, Gyeonggi-do was a daring move for an up-and-coming movie studio.

Steel Moment Coffee Shop and Bakery / Assemble Project

Hana Abdel — Wed, 15 Sep 2021 22:00:00 +0000

The Steel Momentn shop draws the landscape from the facade's vine and the garden of the yard into the interior, separating the space with various movements, and allowing you to have special experiences from the inside.

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.

Nefs Brewery / YKH Associates

Hana Abdel — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 21:00:00 +0000

NEFS Brewery is located in the suburban area of Paju-si, northwest of Seoul. The very quiet and remote area with the nature-surrounded site can be approached from a narrow single roadway. The client’s request was to design this building to be recognized as a new landmark within the limited budget; therefore, we suggested this place to be the venue for the gathering space to promote people’s activity and designed to reconcile with the surrounding nature. In the earlier stage, all the required spaces were set out to show the procedure, the process of the brewery in the design that included the bulky scale with the rigid rectangular form and the exposed interior.

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.

Breath Marks / Urbansociety

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 19:00:00 +0000

is a public art project at Doosan elementary school in Doksan, Geumchon, Seoul.

Paju Unjeong Complex / Studio Origin

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 18 May 2017 20:00:00 +0000

It is located in new development area in Paju city called Unjeong. It is 4-story building with attic area, containing 2 retail units and 5 residential units(4-simplex and a duplex). Clients requirement, maximizing area to rent under current architectural regulation inspired to come up with a pitched roof system over residential and core area.

Haru Cafe / B.U.S Architecture

Cristobal Rojas — Mon, 01 May 2017 19:00:00 +0000

1. # Human

MU:M Office Building / Wise Architecture

Valentina Villa — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 22:00:00 +0000

The nest of Yellow Owl : Mum.
Paju Book City District 2 is a great place where architects can experiment varied designs.

Louverwall / AND

Cristobal Rojas — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 22:00:00 +0000

Site + Desire

Cinema House / UTAA

Cristobal Rojas — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 02:00:00 +0000

This ‘Cinema house’ is not only life space for client’s family but also work place for client who works on film PR. The site has level difference and it is facing a small park on the south. So client wants to capture this natural view and sunshine. Additionally, he needs simple and efficient circulation with modern concept.

Heterojunctional Pavilion / Urban Project

Cristobal Rojas — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:00:00 +0000

This project considers the Gaon Lake Park in which the building is located as a significant contextual reference. The large park is sitting in the middle of a huge neighborhood with apartment complexes, two hours from Seoul metropolitan area. This unique type of construction is typical of Korean urban development—building and selling thousands of housing units at one time. Although this type of development contains potential negative side effects for the future, the landscape is more positively designed than the apartment complexes in preserving the natural wetland which is left as the original entity in the park.

Myung Films Paju Building / IROJE Architects & Planners

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 19:00:00 +0000

Myung Flims is a relatively young film production company who made and released many controversial films and hit films from ‘The Contact’, which was released quite a long time ago, to recent ‘Architecture 101’. It can be said to be a film production company that made some success stories in our infertile film industry.

Sosohun / Sam-Young Choi

Daniel Sánchez — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 20:00:39 +0000

Sosohun is a small house in size of 69§³. The space is small, but it contains our lives and nature. In the stream of time, the house did not play its role and has been treated as an object of material possession. However, that stream is restoring the house for its original meaning. ¡®Sosohun¡¯ in Heyri Village, Paju-si, is the small house that makes big voice for that stream. This house sought wisdom and found answer from our traditions.