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Seoul .Projects
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matteo galli bettoni, rotterdam, Netherlands
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The Seoul National University Museum Seoul, South Korea OMA - Rem Koolhaas museum .
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Kyobo Bookstore
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Leeum - Samsung Museum of Art
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Cheonggyecheon Stream development
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Rodin Gallery
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Boutique Monaco Tower
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Ann Demeulemeester Shop Seoul, South Korea Mass Studies shop
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Hardware Store & Lock Museum
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Urbanhive
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Seoul, South Korea ARCHIUM office
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Welcomm City
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Seoul, South Korea Seung H-Sang culture, gallery, theatre
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Ewha Womans University
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Seoul, South Korea Dominique Perrault promenade, university
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Seoul, South Korea Mass Studies commercial space, housing, office .
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Seoul, South Korea Kohn Pedersen Fox gallery .
Ssamziegil
Seoul, South Korea Seung H-Sang museum
Seoul, South Korea Lee Myung-Bak urban plan .
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Seoul, South Korea Mario Botta museum .
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Seoul, South Korea Moon-Gyu Choi mall, shopping centre
Seoul, South Korea Mario Botta apartment, commercial space .
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Galleria Department Store
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Seoul, South Korea UNStudio shopping centre
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Joonggokdong Catholic Church
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Kwangjingu, South Korea Seung H-Sang chapel
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photo: OMA
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photo: OMA
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The Seoul National University Museum Address Sillim-dong, Gwanak-gu San 56-1 Seoul South Korea http://www.snumoa.org
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The Seoul National University Museum is defined by its siting on the side of a small hill, close to the entrance of the university. The building's form was conceived as a basic rectangular box, sliced diagonally by the incline of the hill. This form is then raised up on a small central core - the only point of contact with the ground - so the building is nearly all cantilever, extending up and down the hill, following the topography precisely and appearing to hover above it. The museum both defines and defeats the hill, and, by keeping the ground beneath it largely free, becomes an attractive conduit between the university campus and the outside community. Both outside and inside, free-flowing circulation was key to the thinking behind the building. The central core is an atrium with a square-spiral staircase connecting the various program areas: exhibition, education, library, and operations.
photo: OMA
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Completion Floor area/size
2005 4500 m²
Architect Client
OMA - Rem Koolhaas Seoul National University
Contributed by
luespinosadlm
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How to get there Take Subway line 2 to Seoul National University Station, Exit 3. From there walk 20 meters to take bus number 5515, 5511, 5516, 5513 to Seoul National University Main Gate.
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photo: Mario Botta
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photo: Mario Botta
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Kyobo Bookstore Address Gangnam Seoul South Korea
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In May 2003, Kyobo opened its eighth official store, the third in Seoul, in Gangnam. It holds the record of being the biggest book store of the nation. Measuring in 11,900m², it is located underground, below the Kyobo Towers in Gangnam. It has the ?Bookmaster Dedicated Hotseats? and the automated book distribution system that was implemented the first in the world by any book store.
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Project is public! . Completion
2003
Architect
Mario Botta
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luespinosadlm
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Opening hours 9:30am - 10:00pm
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How to get there Take Subway Line 2 to Gangnam Station and go out of Exit #10 >> Walk about 500 m in the direction of Nonhyeon Station
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photo: Leeum
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photo: Leeum
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Leeum - Samsung Museum of Art Address Hannam-Dong, Yongsan-Gu 747-18 140-890 Seoul South Korea
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The Leeum Samsung Museum of Art was opened after years of preparation to showcase the best of traditional Korean art and the works of international artists. Byung-Chull (Hoam) Lee, founder of the Samsung Group, built a private collection of Korean cultural treasures and artworks which are on display at the Ho Am Art Museum, Ho Am Gallery, and the Rodin Gallery. Following the footsteps of the late founder, Kun-Hee Lee, chairman of Samsung, continued to expand the collection with traditional artworks of great value in Korean art history and works of modern Korean as well as international artists. This new enlarged collection is now on display at the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art. As a melting ground of past, present, and future art and culture, the Museum complex in itself is a grand masterpiece of world renowned architects Mario Botta, Jean Nouvel and Rem Koolhaas. See how the individual styles of different artists blend together in the Museum grounds.
photo: Leeum
. Project is public! . Completion
2004
Architect Architect
Jean Nouvel OMA - Rem Koolhaas
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luespinosadlm
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Opening hours 10:30am to 6pm. Closed Mondays.
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How to get there Subway Line 6 Hangangjin Station Exit 1, walk 100 meters in the direction of Itaewon, Turn right in the first corner and walk up the sloping road for around 5 minutes
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photo: Lucia Espinosa Delos Monteros
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photo: Lucia Espinosa Delos Monteros
Cheonggyecheon Stream development Address Cheonggyecheon Seoul South Korea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonggyecheon
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Completed in 2005 and proudly flouted as one of the most beautiful natural places in Seoul by the tourism board, it is poorly designed and hardly an example of a sustainable system, given that the water flow is artificially pumped in from the mains. From an architectural point of view there is much room for improvement. That said, the area is usually crowded with locals and tourists, giving visitors a 'chill out' space where regular public events can take place. It has improved the area significantly by providing an intermediary space, a break in the urban fabric, and this is what makes Cheonggyecheon a successful, sustainable urban project - not the stream, the trees nor the 12.04 km of walking paths. Similarly, the Hangang 'Renaissance' project currently in development is further evidence of the citizenry's desire for better environments.
photo: Lucia Espinosa Delos Monteros
. Project is public! . Completion
2005
Urban planner
Lee Myung-Bak
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photo: Kohn Pedersen Fox photo: Kohn Pedersen Fox
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Rodin Gallery Address Jung-gu Seoul South Korea http://www.rodingallery.org
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Situated at the base of the Great South Gate along TaePyong-Ro, Seoul's historic axis, the Rodin Museum is part of a larger assemblage of glass and steel interventions that were designed to create a new identity for Samsung, unify three of their existing buildings, and provide an active public retail arcade and plaza. Contextually, the museum terminates a new colonnade and canopy that weave together across all three sites with the museum itself as a small, luminous glass pavilion that evolved from the placement of two famous works of sculpture by Auguste Rodin, 'The Burgers of Calais' and 'The Gates of Hell'. As the architecture of the three existing Samsung buildings was so disparate, the primary design solution was to connect the Headquarters Building, the Insurance Building and the Industry Building to each other and the city by unifying all three with a new retail base. This base creates a physical and visual identity as well as an architectural order to the complex.
photo: Kohn Pedersen Fox
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Completion Floor area/size
2000 11000 m²
Architect
Kohn Pedersen Fox
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How to get there To get there, get off at City Hall station, Line 2, Exit 8 and walk for five minutes.
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photo: Yong-Kwan Kim
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photo: Yong-Kwan Kim
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Boutique Monaco Tower Address Seocho-gu, Seocho-dong 1316-5 Seoul South Korea
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This tower project has a floor area of 54,859 m2, with commercial, cultural, and community spaces on the lower levels, and officetels on floors 5 through 27. To ensure the maximum building footprint ratio (40%) as well as optimal natural light conditions, a C-shaped plan is extruded into a 27-story tower consistent with the Domino Matrix to reach a height of 100 meters, the maximum height allowed by law. When the C-shaped plan is simply repeated vertically, however, the floor space of the entire tower exceeds the legally allowed amount by approximately 10%. To reduce this mass systematically, missing matrices are introduced, meeting the maximum FAR (970%) throughout the building mass. Through 15 missing spaces, the building gains more exterior surface and corners for more natural light and better views. The spaces created by the missing matrices are landscaped with trees that are visible from the inside and outside of the building.
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Completion Floor area/size
2009 55000 m²
Architect
Mass Studies
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photo: Yong-Kwan Kim
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photo: Yong-Kwan Kim
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Ann Demeulemeester Shop Address Sinsa-Dong, Gangnam-Gu 650-14 Seoul South Korea http://www.anndemeulemeester.be
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The Ann Demeulemeester Shop in Sinsa is one of the few buildings by the architects that is readily accessible to the public. The most striking aspect of this project is its living facade - a geotextile planted with a perennial that has often been misinterpreted as a sign of 'green/environmentally sustainable' design. It has however, created a fantastic aesthetic, and its response to local scale, while still being a striking building, is impressive. Unlike many buildings in Seoul, this little shop manages to elegantly define the borders of natural/artificial, interior/ exterior space, while at the same time integrating them experientially.
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Completion Floor area/size
2007 380 m²
Architect Client
Mass Studies Handsome Corp.
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luespinosadlm
photo: Yong-Kwan Kim
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How to get there The site is located in an alley, at a block’s distance from Dosandae-ro – a busy thoroughfare in Seoul’s Gangnam district – in close proximity to Dosan Park.
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photo: introducekorea
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photo: Lucia Espinosa Delos Monteros
Ssamziegil Address Jong-no, Jongno-gu 155 Seoul South Korea
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A shopping mall which became a catalyst for the revitalization of Insadong. Unlike the tabula-rasa mentality commonly seen in many building projects, the existing street shops were rebuilt and incorporated into the new center, and, along with the setback of the building, allows for the complex to melt into the street-scape. The circulation around the atrium allows for shoppers to browse through the unique stores, while being able to experience public events that take place in the central space. Elegant detailing and simple contemporary materials - brick, glass, concrete - are used to create pockets of intermediary space and moments of joy. There is a hum, a collective energy in this space generated by the use of the building.
photo: Lucia Espinosa Delos Monteros
. Project is public! . Completion
2003
Architect
Moon-Gyu Choi
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luespinosadlm
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How to get there Anguk Station line 3, exit 6.
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Hardware Store & Lock Museum Address Dongsung-dong 187-8 110-810 Seoul South Korea http://www.echoiga.com
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"...I have decided to introduce some weight to this dense area, where buildings of so many numbers of styles, the confusing signboards, the electric cables and telegraph poles overhead are not offering one bit of feeling of stability. The simpler it is, the more acutely the weight will be felt. No windows, no adornments, but only the weight of the metal will be there. It is a negative void to create tension in this brawling scenery. But inside it there is much brightness..." Text by Seung H-Sang
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Completion Floor area/size
7-2003 15889 m²
Architect Client
Seung H-Sang Hong-kyu Choi
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iroje
. photo: Kim Jongoh Opening hours 10:00am-18:00pm
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photo: Bart Reuser
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photo: Bart Reuser
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Urbanhive Address Gangnam-Gu Nonhyeon-Dong 200-7 Seoul South Korea
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Korean architect Kim In Cheurl designed the innovative Urbanhive tower located in Seoul, South Korea. Urbanhive is a 17 levels of 70 meter high tower with white exposed concrete and contextually sits on the corner of the street within the urban matrix, featuring the perforated architectural façade. The transparent glass screen, separated from structural holes, is only to maintain the internal conditions, not to serve as a window. The circular cell placed diagonally reduces weight of a rectangular tube, reinforced concrete structure. The cast are made of P.O steel using a laser cutting machine and packed with high strength high flow concrete.
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Completion
2010
Architect
ARCHIUM
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photo: Bart Reuser
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photo: Osamu Murai
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photo: Osamu Murai
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Welcomm City Address Jangchungdong 190-10 100-392 Seoul South Korea http://www.welcommtheater.com
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This building in central Seoul is the first rusty cor-ten steel façade to be built in South Korea. Working studios are arranged in four separate 'little houses' that stand on a concrete base containing the common gallery and restaurant areas accessible to the public. Large windows stand on the floor like large pictures, giving views of a wooded mountain slope on the other side of a busy city street.
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Completion Floor area/size
4-2000 34171 m²
Architect Associate architect Client
Seung H-Sang Florian Beigel Architects Welcomm Co, Ltd.
Contributed by
iroje
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photo: Osamu Murai
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photo: ereeder
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photo: ereeder
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Ewha Womans University Address Seodaemun-Gu (Daehyun-dong) 11-1 120-750 Seoul South Korea
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In the words of the Architect "emptiness and silence are essential components. The vastness of a site does not demand a greater response." As in much of Perrault's work, the notion that Architecture disappears into context through both form and function are certainly evident in the student center at Ewha Woman's University, serving both as pause and link between the surrounding city and the University community.
photo: ereeder
. Project is public! . Completion
1-2008
Architect
Dominique Perrault
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photo: Christian Richters
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Galleria Department Store Address Apgujeong-dong 515 135-110 Seoul South Korea
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The Galleria Department Store project had two main goals. The first was a new façade that projects a lively, ever-changing surface. In total 4330 glass discs are mounted on the existing concrete skin of the building. The glass discs include special dichroic foil generating a mother-of-pearl effect during the day. During the night, each glass disc is lit by LED lights which can be programmed to create a multitude of effects. The second goal was the renovation of the interior into a luxurious integrated design. Inspired by the catwalk the customer finds himself immersed in the world of fashion while moving through the generous corridors. The interior design focuses on the elimination of superfluous details and introduces new integrated Big Details.
photo: Christian Richters
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Completion Floor area/size
2004 22000 m²
Architect Client
UNStudio Hanwha Stores Co., LTD
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photo: Kim Jongsuk
. photo: Kim Jongsuk
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Joonggokdong Catholic Church Address Joongok 1 dong 165-8 143-221 Kwangjingu South Korea http://www.iroje.com
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Began designing in June 1996, Junggokdong Catholic Church took 5 years to complete by early 2001. Compared to the Middle Ages it is not a long period, but in this age of fast life it is quite a stretch. The period is substantial enough to change the conceptual philosophies of an architect, and it is humbling to look back on former ideas, some of which one tends to forget after a while. However, in 1997 I started a series feature called 'field notes' on the project in an architectural magazine, which left me with traces of the thoughts that were behind the project. Some of these fragmented discourses are different from the finished work, and some even differ from what I believe now. Nevertheless, they were important clues to the framework for the project. Here are some excerpts.Text by Seung H-Sang
photo: Kim Jongsuk
. Project is public! . Completion
7-2000
Architect
Seung H-Sang
Contributed by
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