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Autumn Art Breeze at Sejong Art Center / Boundaries architects

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  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  50
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2013
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  dongdaemoon, posco, samhwa

UNStudio + Heerim Win Competition for Resident-Driven Housing Development in Seoul

UNStudio, in collaboration with Korean firm Heerim Architects & Planners, has won the competition to design the 32 tower masterplan of Eunma Housing Development in the neighborhood of Daechi-Dong, Seoul. The unique project commission is being led by the residents of the Eunma Housing Development themselves, who have tasked the architects with redeveloping their current homes into a new, future-orientated eco-design that can be used as a blueprint for other resident-driven development projects.

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Call for Submissions: Art Complex, Pyeongchang-dong (Seoul)

Art Complex aims to contribute to the development of local community, maturity of cultural environment and communication between artistic activities by formation of a complex cultural space for combination of enjoyment of culture, research & development and learning with use of abundant local historical infrastructure and the art archive as the medium.

Corner House / Boundaries architects

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  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  401
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  INOUTIC, Real Zinc
  • Professionals: Jarchiv

Juno Academy / AI Architects

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Hong-Hyun Bukchon Information Office and Facilities / Interkerd Architects

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  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  150
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  FILOBE, KOINS ENC, Nano Brick, Sunnie International

Call for Submissions: "Gather Around Hongdae Eoulmadang-ro Cultural Platform" Idea Competition

In order to restore the innovative local culture and the equipment that help the coexistence of local residents, artists, and visitors as the typical cultural space of Seoul, ‘Front of Hongik University’, is going to transform into a standardized commercial space, the contest of inventing a cultural platform will be performed from 5th October to 8th November.

Call for Submissions: Seoul Animation Center Design Competition

The Seoul Metropolitan Government announces a call for entry as below for the design competition aimed to construct a new Seoul Animation Center.

Nonhyeon 101-1 / Stocker Lee Architetti

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  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  1033
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  USM, Petersen Tegl
  • Professionals: Harmony Ing., JEHYO

Marimba House / ISON Architects

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  • Architects: ISON Architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  369
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2015
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  FILOBE, Stucoflex
  • Professionals: Stuga

Adagio Valley for Department of Music at University of Seoul / Wooridongin Architects

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  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  1285
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Samsung Metal, Unique system

Villa Mangwon / aoa architects

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  • Architects: aoa architects
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  290
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2016
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  ENSUM, Hongik ceramics, Weber Korea
  • Professionals: COWORKERS

MMK+ & Taehyung Park Transform Abandoned Island in Seoul Into New Cultural Hub

Within the sprawling metropolis of Seoul lies an island "forgotten by time." Sitting beneath the Hangang Bridge on the River Han, the floating lot is now nothing but a relic of a bygone era. Formerly a popular man-made beach and recreational area, the past forty years have seen the site erased from the collective consciousness of the city. To breathe new life into the island, the Nodeul Island Dream competition was opened, and Seoul-based MMK+ and Taehyung Park's proposal 'Reconfigured Ground' took first prize.

The proposal looks at the evolution of the island from constructed paradise to overgrown void. Throughout this evolution, an ecosystem has developed and gradual formal changes have taken place. The remote character of the island - currently accentuated by its abandonment - is to be transformed into a positive condition, as it becomes a cultural haven within the bustling city. The architects' design aims to "restore the wild nature of the island while re-programming its natural features as a cultural venue," once again making it a destination point for inhabitants of the city. 

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Davich Optical Chain / JOHO Architecture

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  • Architects: JOHO Architecture
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  182
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2015
  • Manufacturers Brands with products used in this architecture project
    Manufacturers:  Albeco E&C, Alto

YAP Seoul – Temp’L / shinslab architecture

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IHWARUAE / Z_Lab

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  • Architects: Z_Lab
  • Area Area of this architecture project Area:  83
  • Year Completion year of this architecture project Year:  2015
  • Professionals: Urbanplot

Seoul's Dramatic "New Towns" Are Captured in this Photoset by Manuel Alvarez Diestro

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As Seoul’s population boomed, apartment blocks became commonplace. Photographer Manuel Alvarez Diestro spent 6 months exploring the city’s new towns, aiming to “reveal in visual terms the expansive nature of urbanization and the transformation of the landscape through the construction of these new housing developments of massive scale.”

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TA.R.I Architects Wins Second Prize for a Women's Complex Competition in Seoul

TA.R.I Architects has won second place in the competition for a Women's and Family Facility Complex in Seoul, South Korea, with its proposal, Space Salim. Based on the idea of welcoming the community and fixing its problems, the proposal centers on a diffuse system to represent the complexity of society.

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