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Designing Lightweight Architecture for Recycling: The 2018 Seoul Plaza Ice Rink

Last winter, just as any other year, an ice rink was installed in front of the Seoul Plaza. However, this translucent ice rink, gently set on the ground, is quite different from the previous ice rinks. It is a new design proposed by CoRe architects and Graft Object, to make this one-season-use-only structure, one wi...

May 10, 2019
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Imagine Ten Years After of A Building: Seongsu Yeonbang

In January, a building that was once a chemical plant in Seongsu-dong, Daemyung Chemical, was renovated and...

May 10, 2019
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[Critique] Narrative Architecture in the Era of YOLO

These days, where the absoluteness of aesthetic standards in design is often in doubt, I feel it increasing...

Apr 26, 2019
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[Essay] An Attitude to Campus Architecture

Choi Moongyu (professor, Yonsei University)

Apr 26, 2019
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Nathalie Du Pasquier: Memphis Tennessee

Nathalie Du Pasquier’s exhibition ‘The Strange Order of Things’ is held at PACE Gallery Seoul from Mar. 8 t...

Mar 28, 2019
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[Critique] And That Leaves the Problem of the Elevation

Mar 28, 2019
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[Essay] Fragments that are Present and also Realistic

Seo Seungmo (principal, Samuso Hyojadong)

Mar 28, 2019
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A History From Six Perspectives

‘Immortality in the Cloud’, on display at the Ilmin Museum of Art, explores how history adopts new conventi...

Mar 22, 2019
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The Creative Convergence of Modernity and the Vernacular

The Cambodia ACLEDA Institute of Business Campus project was launched with the objective of establishing an...

Mar 22, 2019
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[Roundtable] Blooming a Talk Flower with NUNA

Yang Soo-in (principal, Lifethings) x Ko Kiwoong (principal, Office 53427) x Kim Kwangsoo (principal, studi...

Mar 04, 2019
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The Glass Pyramid Dissapears

‘Unveiling’ | Perrotin Seoul | 17 January – 9 March, 2019

Feb 26, 2019
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Min Joung-Ki

‘Min Joung-Ki’ | KUKJE GALLERY | Jan. 29 – Mar. 3, 2019

Feb 26, 2019
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Unexpected Resonances: Contact Points of Contemporary Art in Asia

‘Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s –1990s’, a special international exhibition that illuminate...

Feb 25, 2019
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Asking Questions of Architecture Issues in Korea to Seung H-Sang

A conference to discuss the current issues facing the Korean architectural scene was hosted by Seung H-Sang...

Feb 25, 2019
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Controversy over the Design Competition for New Government Complex Sejong

The Design Competition for New Government Complex Sejong has become a hot topic in the architectural field....

Feb 01, 2019
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[Essay] About the Ignominiousness

Heo Seogoo (CEO, Wondoshi Architects Group)

Jan 30, 2019
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The Reality of Architecture of Storage Sites

In Feb. 2013, ‘Tobacco processing plant; It Exists’ by Wondoshi Architects Group and Teamten architecture o...

Jan 30, 2019
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The Opening of the Cabinet of Curiosities: A Paradigm Shift in the Art Museum and MMCA Cheongju

Recently, a Cabinet of Curiosities opened in Cheongju, Korea. About 11,000 collected artworks from the Nati...

Jan 29, 2019
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How Far Will Humankind Go in Pursuit of Their Desires?

‘SOPHIENS’ | Gana Art Center | Nov. 16 – Dec. 30, 2018

Jan 28, 2019
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Design: The New Wave Presenting the Meaning of the Public and Community

‘New Wave ll: Design and Engaging Communities’ | Kumho Museum of Art | Sep. 5, 2018 – Feb. 10, 2019

Jan 28, 2019
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DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE PAST AND PRESENT: AMOS REX

In Aug. 2018, Amos Rex, a modern art museum, opened its door to the public in Helsinki, Finland. This museu...

Jan 25, 2019