Medals for 2018 Winter Olympics are based on Korean alphabet
The medals awarded at next year's Winter Olympics in South Korea will feature diagonal ridges, which have been formed from extrusions of the country's 600-year-old alphabet. More
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"Seoullo is no High Line, but it is of equal importance"
MVRDV's plant-covered walkway in Seoul may look like a low-budget version of the High Line, but it's much more than that – it's the sign of a new frontier in city-making, says new Dezeen columnist Gerard Reinmuth. More
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MVRDV's "Seoul High Line" captured in new photographs
Four months after MVRDV revealed its plant-covered walkway on a former elevated highway in Seoul, photographer Jim Stephenson visited the project to see how it is settling into the city. More
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STPMJ layers different concrete mixes to form striped walls at Stratum House
The stripy facades of this pair of houses near the South Korean city of Icheon are the result of experiments by architecture office STPMJ into how altering the constituents of concrete changes its properties. More
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LG Display uses OLED lighting to transform galleries inside National Palace Museum of Korea
Dezeen promotion: by replacing the lighting inside the National Palace Museum of Korea in Seoul, LG Display has created more space for exhibiting historic artefacts and royal treasures. More
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Seoul Biennale visitors invited to experience replica of a North Korean home
Amid rising tensions between North Korea and the rest of the world, a pair of architects have built a full-scale mockup of a Pyongyang apartment, as part of an exhibition in the South Korean capital. More
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Moveable wooden screens are set into concrete facades of Mokyeonri Wood Culture Museum
This museum in Incheon, South Korea, is dedicated to teaching visitors about wood and features moving timber screens that create effects similar to dappled sunlight filtering through trees. More
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Moon Hoon uses diagonal beams to brace stacked-box house on Jeju island
South Korean architect Moon Hoon has completed a concrete house on the island of Jeju, featuring cantilevered boxes stacked on top of each other and braced by diagonal reinforced-concrete beams. More
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UNStudio uses colour to give identity to faceless South Korean skyscrapers
Dutch office UNStudio has devised a solution to the "impersonal homogeneity" of high-rises in many Asian cities – add colour and patterns to the exteriors. More
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Seoul restaurant panelled with wood in ode to former owner's love of oak trees
Korean firms By Seog Be Seog and MMOA Studio made oak the focus of their interiors for 70-year-old Seoul restaurant Chosunoak's second location. More
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Snarkitecture's installation for COS will feature thousands of glass marbles
Snarkitecture is set to create an immersive installation for fashion brand COS in Seoul, which will see thousands of glass marbles travelling around a gallery. More
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Windows taper to reduce unwanted views from Seoul office and retail building
South Korean studio BUS Architecture has completed a mixed-use building in the Seoul, featuring bands of windows set into its brick facades that decrease in size as they wrap around to the rear. More
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Blacksheep bases experiential cooking library in Seoul on European factory interiors
London design studio Blacksheep has completed an immersive cookery environment in Seoul's Yeongdeungpo neighbourhood that includes a deli, cafe, library and kitchen featuring industrial materials and high-end European furniture. More
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MVRDV transforms 1970s highway into "plant village" in Seoul
Dutch studio MVRDV has converted a former overpass into a plant-covered walkway in Seoul, which follows a kilometre-long route above the traffic. More
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Cantilevered concrete volumes provide river and mountain views at Guesthouse Rivendell
Angled concrete surfaces collide to form the facades of this guesthouse by South Korean studio IDMM Architects and Heesoo Kwak, which features sections that thrust out towards the nearby Bukhan River. More
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KPF completes South Korea's tallest skyscraper
American firm Kohn Pedersen Fox has completed the 555-metre-high Lotte World Tower in Seoul, which is now the tallest building in South Korea and the fifth-tallest building in the world. More
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Studio MRDO and Studio LaM envision underground bathhouse between North and South Korea
New York practices Studio MRDO and Studio LaM have have won an ideas competition with their proposal for a theatrical underground pool set in the Demilitarised Zone between North Korea and South Korea. More
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Stone fins cover slanted walls of mountainside house near Seoul
Limestone louvres and boxy windows cover the angled walls of this home outside Seoul, which was designed by local studio Poly.m.ur to house three generations of the same family. More
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Concrete volumes cantilever and twist to provide mountain views from South Korean holiday resort
This cluster of holiday apartments by IDMM Architects in South Korea's Gangwon region feature angular concrete and glass volumes that thrust outwards from a sloping site to ensure optimal views. More
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Layered cladding emphasises stacked arrangement of L'eau Design's mixed-use block in Seoul
The stacked volumes that make up this multipurpose building in Seoul's Gangnam district are clad in various materials and diminish in size like the components of a nested Russian doll. More
