The Embassy of Switzerland in the Republic of Korea has recently relocated. The project built by Burckhardt+Partner was erected on the site where the now demolished former Songwol-dong embassy in Jongno-gu first opened its doors. The landscape surrounding the re-erected embassy has today transformed into a site for ...
Jul 04, 2019
This essay considers the Bauhaus as a product of the dynamism of postwar German society in the 1920s, rathe...
Jun 25, 2019
Over the past few years, the architectural world has held a series of events in celebration of this centenn...
In 1926, when the Bauahaus building in Dessau was completed, Konrad Püschel received an admission lett...
The year 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, and various commemorative efforts are gaining tra...
Living Sejong, Reading Sejong: Question After One Year (2)
Jun 21, 2019
Yang Seungjin creates chairs and lighting designs by blowing balloons. His ‘Blowing Series’ has a unique ch...
What a great pleasure to finally see the Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture, which has opened after a lo...
Jun 14, 2019
Giovanna Borasi (chief curator, CCA) × Park Semi
Jun 13, 2019
Kim Taehyung (director-general, Urban Space Improvement Bureau in Seoul) x Lim Yookyung (associate research...
You Hyemi’s furniture is simple. It is designed carefully to accommodate collapsibility while treating the ...
Jun 11, 2019
Living Sejong, Reading Sejong: Questions After One Year (1)The development background and the current sit...
Jun 05, 2019
The Celine store on Madison Avenue in New York, designed by Hedi Slimane - scouted as Celine's new creative...
On May 10, the ‘Sewoon Global Forum: Urban Manufacturing Next’ took place at Sewoon Hall in Sewoon Sangga. ...
Inspired by his mother’s knitting, Lee Kwangho began to braid wires, hoses, and PVC tubes. His lighting and...
May 29, 2019
Unlike metropolitan districts, which are mostly shaped by the market, rural areas are modified primarily by...
May 22, 2019
Faced with a declining and aging population, small cities are losing their inhabitants and are under threat...
Last winter, just as any other year, an ice rink was installed in front of the Seoul Plaza. However, this t...
May 10, 2019
In January, a building that was once a chemical plant in Seongsu-dong, Daemyung Chemical, was renovated and...
These days, where the absoluteness of aesthetic standards in design is often in doubt, I feel it increasing...
Apr 26, 2019
Choi Moongyu (professor, Yonsei University)
