Firevase is a vase that doubles as a fire extinguisher
Created by subsidiaries of the Samsung corporation and distributed across South Korea, this unassuming flower vase doubles up as a throwable fire extinguisher. More
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Robot Science Museum in Seoul will be built by robots and drones
Melike Altınışık Architects has unveiled plans for a Robot Science Museum in Seoul, which will be built using robotic construction techniques and drones. More
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Jeonghwa Seo creates cast aluminium and brass furniture for Seoul cafe and wine bar Et Cetera
Seoul-based designer Jeonghwa Seo has furnished a cafe and wine bar with furniture that celebrates the qualities of raw materials. More
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Jac Studios creates delicate glass exhibition inside Tadao Ando's Genius Loci
Jac Studios has designed minimal glass display cases for an exhibition in a Tadao Ando-designed museum – a project that has just won top prize at the Inside awards. More
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MVRDV imprints surrounding buildings onto walls of indoor theme park near Seoul
MVRDV has completed a white and gold entertainment complex, The Imprint, next to South Korea's Incheon Airport, with facades that incorporate elements of nearby buildings. More
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Morphosis weaves textile research facility facade from reinforced fibre
The folded facade of the Morphosis-designed Kolon One & Only Tower in Seoul is made from a high tech fibre used to make bullet-proof vests. More
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Natasha Marks envisions neighbourhoods built under Seoul following reunification of Korea
Vast underground neighbourhoods are built to house an influx of migrants into Seoul, following the reunification of North and South Korea, in this conceptual proposal by Bartlett graduate Natasha Marks. More
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South Korean glamping resort offers holidaymakers a touch of "minimalist luxury"
Atelier Chang has designed a sequence of brightly coloured tents for the SJCC Glamping Resort to offer tourists a luxury camping experience on a cypress-covered mountain near the South Korean city of Suncheon. More
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David Chipperfield Architects completes office with "hanging gardens" in Seoul
Korean beauty giant Amorepacific's cube-shaped headquarters, designed by David Chipperfield Architects, is punctuated with voids filled with trees and pools. More
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House in Yangsan looks like a cluster of small houses
Architecture studio Raum designed this house in the South Korean city of Yangsan as a cluster of clean-lined, interconnected blocks that can adapt to the changing needs of a young family. More
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AI experts condemn development of "killer robots" in South Korea
More than 50 leading academics working in the field of robotics have called for a boycott of a South Korean university, over concerns about its partnership with a defence company to develop autonomous arms. More
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Demountable stadium hosts opening ceremony for Pyeongchang Winter Olympics
The opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics takes place today, inside a pentagonal temporary stadium in Pyeongchang, South Korea. More
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Asif Khan reveals super-dark Vantablack pavilion for Winter Olympics 2018
Asif Khan has unveiled a pavilion at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, described as the "darkest building on earth". More
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Japan protests inclusion of disputed islands on Korea's unified Olympic flag
The Japanese government is protesting the "unacceptable" inclusion of a group of disputed islands on the Korean unification flag that South Korea and North Korea are set to compete together under at the Winter Olympics. More
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Steel-clad clerestory windows protrude from concrete badminton hall by JHW IROJE Architects
The concrete exterior of this badminton centre in the South Korean city of Gwangju is coloured to match the local soil, and contrasts with a row of clerestory windows clad in blackened-steel. More
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Forest and House by JHW IROJE Architects is a hillside home slotted among mature trees
A living space surrounded by glass walls and an open-air bath house are among five buildings that are scattered across a forested site to form this house in South Korea's Sunchang County. More
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Stainless-steel poles screen living spaces and gardens at South Korean home
Seoul studio Augmented Reality Architects has completed a house in the South Korean city of Gimhae featuring a facade formed of vertical metal poles that shields an interior arranged around a series of courtyard gardens. More
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Sosu Architects completes brick-clad multi-generational house in Seoul
Apartments for three generations of the same family are stacked inside this multi-storey house in Seoul, which features brick cladding that is perforated to create screens in front of some of the windows. More
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"What is happening at Sewoon Sangga is, quietly, quite extraordinary"
A brutalist megastructure in Seoul is undergoing a major revamp. The result may not be photogenic, says Owen Hatherley, but it offers a promising model for regeneration without gentrification. More
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Ridged ribbons of concrete wrap house in South Korea by ODE Architects
This family home near Gyeongju, South Korea, is surrounded by thick bands of fluted concrete, which offer a play of light and shadow. More
