Uijeongbu is located north of Seoul, the capital of South Korea. Its harmony with nature characterizes Korean conventional architecture. Ancient architects adopted the bracket system characterized by thatched roofs and…
Seongnam is a satellite city of Seoul, planned as a residential city in its southeast. It is the first planned city in the history of South Korea. The purpose of…
The SongEun art space designed by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron was the first building designed by them in Korea but one that truly makes a mark in…
Reading about Seoul’s new 10-minute city one would imagine humankind had no other purpose but to develop spaces to increase productivity. One’s health, culture, interests – all merged to gear…
Founded by Christopher Lee and Kapil Gupta, their association and design values go way beyond Zaha Hadid’s reach in AA. They are theorists and practitioners who believe in decoding past…
Architecture is a profession that is deeply affected by every aspect of a human’s life. As the population increases exponentially and global warming raises the sea levels, vertical living poses…
“The bad news is time flies but the good news is you are the pilot…” An airport is a symbol of the modern era and a monument of the future…
In Pangyo, on the outskirts of Seoul, the new headquarters of the South Korean company Hankook, has been designed by Foster+Partners as a ‘technodome’. The Hankook Techno complex embraces several…
Whether you call it Seoul as in “se-oul” or Seoul, as in “soul”/”sole”, the economy in the south Korean capital has been booming for decades now. In recent years, the…