Model Home Gallery / NADAAA
Model Home Gallery in Seoul, South Korea by NADAAA: In South Korea, the study, design, and sales of housing has developed into a discipline serving an ascendant middle class with amenities and technologies that are significantly sophisticated. The “model home gallery,” a nexus for consumerist desires and corporate strategy, not only contains sales offices with […]
ArchitectureKoreaNADAAASeoulSouth Korea
Songwon Art Center / Mass Studies
Songwon Art Center in Seoul, Korea by Mass Studies: The site is an irregularly shaped piece of land, roughly 297? in size, sitting in an entrance location to the Buk-Chon area when approached from the city center. The two adjacent roads meet in a sharp angle, with the main street sloping up towards the site. These situations […]
ArchitectureKoreaMass StudiesSeoul
H-House / bang by min
H-House in Seoul, Korea by bang by min: Firstly, the architect had to design a space where three generations could live together and privately at the same time, in order that they could behave individually while being together. The architect created the second floor as an interspace of this house divided into three floors, where they can […]
ArchitectureBang by minKoreaSeongbuk-dongSeoulSouth Korea
Villa Topoject / Architecture of Novel Differentiation (AND)
Architecture of Novel Differentiation (AND): The house is located in a small valley in a mountainous area near Seoul, Korea. While the valley slopes upward, series of houses intermittently continue facing a 3 meter wide road. Instead of making walls or fences towards the road, the house gently lifts up the topography to form private […]
ArchitectureArchitecture of Novel DifferentiationKoreaSeoul
HouseWING / AnLstudio + Heebon
HouseWING is a residential intervention by New York and Seoul-based firm AnLstudio and Heebon in an apartment in Seoul, Korea. On the tenth floor of a historical landmark building, this renovated space integrates a working environment into the dwelling for an artist. The unit accommodates the conflicting activities by creating two clusters that share the spaces between the […]
AnLstudio + HeebonArchitectureNew YorkSeoul
HYPERMATRIX (Robotic Kinetic Wallscape) / JonPaSang x Expo Hyundai Motor Group
Seoul-based media arts collective JonPaSang has created HYPERMATRIX a kinetic vertical landscape installation for the Hyundai Motor Group Exhibition Pavilion in Korea. The exhibition comprises of thousands of 30cm x 30cm cubes, which make up the internal facade of the building. A steel foundation was developed to support the integrated stepping motors that control each individual volume. The...
HyundaiInstallationJonPaSangKineticKoreaRoboticsSeoul
bARCODE BAND / Kang Woon Jin, Lee Ha Lim & Kim Yong Duk
bARCODE BAND presents a new method for digital music production. With the use of barcodes, a physical interface (ink on paper) is used to generate digital sounds. –@ybaynes Directed by Kang woon jin Designed by Lee ha lim Crafted by Kim yong duk To proceed bARCODE BAND project, we worked together to unfold our ideas and […]
ElectronicaInfographicsKoreaSeoul
Diagonal Tower / SOM
Diagonal Tower, Yongsan International Business District (Seoul, South Korea) by SOM: A case study in efficiency, SOM’s design of the 343-meter (1,125-foot) tall Diagonal Tower successfully integrates massing, structure, and performance to minimize wind loads, reduce construction costs, provide dramatic views, and meet strict energy codes—all while maintaining an iconic skyline presence. Located...
ArchitectureKoreaSeoulSOMSouth Korea
Ewha Womans University / Dominique Perrault
French architect Dominique Perrault has recently completed one of his most impressive projects to date, a fitness center and plaza on the campus of Ewha Womans University in Seoul, South Korea. Exquisite photographs by André Morin. –@ybaynes The complexity of the immediate site through its relationship to the greater campus and the city of Shinchon to the south demands […]
ArchitectureFranceKoreaPhotographySeoul