New South Korea architecture projects with building news and architectural images, plus architects background. South Korean building news from across this North East Asia country.
Design: Moon Hoon. Baekhyeon-dong is divided in almost equal parts by its main café street. The buildings in the surrounding areas are similarly subdivided by their function; the lower and ground levels are commercial, and the first and second levels are typically residential.
Conran and Partners’ design of The Conran Shop evokes the atmosphere and drama of a gallery space – rather than that of a conventional store – allowing products to be curated in impactful, eye-catching ways.
MVRDV has won a competition to redesign the Tancheon Valley and waterfront in Seoul with The Weaves, a proposal that knits together a tangle of pedestrian and bicycle paths, natural landscapes, and public amenities.
Designed by Aidia Studio the Photographic Art Museum should be a celebration of light and how space and architecture can be crafted by the multiplicity of atmospheres.
City Main Library Gwangju: This competition is aimed to search for designs of a public library, which will serve as a main Library in Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism: China Building Centre sole Chinese representative, “Creation of Spatial Value” exhibition includes recent CBC projects Louna International Architects’ Village and Q- Village Xiamutang.
AmorePacific Headquarters Seoul Interior by Kinzo (Berlin) for Korea’s largest cosmetics group: top floor of the David Chipperfield building designed for employees and in-house start-ups.
Feel the Feeling: The new Hyundai N Brand exhibition in the largest centre of automobile culture in Korea, the Hyundai Motorstudio Goyang was designed by ATELIER BRÜCKNER.
National Museum of World Writing in Incheon: in order to maintain the visibility, the main section of the museum and galleries are driven underground, separating the volume of services transparently from the ground, inspired by Korean native buildings.
Margot Krasojević Architecture’s brief is to design an offshore lighthouse hotel. The design criteria address renewable energy, harnessing wave energy to generate electricity by using the building’s form.
Redevelopment project by Studio Migliore+Servetto spanning 5 km of disused railway overlooking the sea, which will give rise to a themed park called the “Blue Line Park”.
Designed by Yong Ju Lee Architecture Root Bench is the reinterpretation of winning proposal in Hangang Art Competition. This is circle-shaped public furniture with diameter of 30m.
Yumin Art Nouveau Collection, South Korea, wins World Interior of the Year for 2018, design by JAC STUDIOS, Denmark – a poetic glass exhibition in Phoenix Jeju.
Camp Mare: Tongyeong Dockyard Regeneration, South Korea, winning design by HENN + Posco A&C – bordered to the north by the water and to the south by the Mireuk Mountains, the waterfront extended via two new rectilinear bays.
Architects HOK designed one of the world’s largest corporate research campuses. LG Science Park is now open for business. At more than 1 million square metres (the equivalent of 152 football pitches), LG Science Park in Seoul’s Magok District unites staff from eight of LG’s Korean businesses.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced the release of a design sketch, by Mass Studies, of the Seoul Cinematheque (tentative name), a visual art cultural complex to be built in Chungmuro, which is the center of the domestic film industry.
‘I am searching for a design language to embody the eastern concept of ‘Yi,’ in the futuristic way. This is an exploration of what CAA can do to bring eastern culture and futurism together.’ – Liu Haowei, architect
Lithuanian architects’ proposal for a Youth Center and Sport Facility building in Seoul, located on the edge of newly built high-rise residential blocks. The intricate and sensitive context of the new building generated the central questions underpinning the design.