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On Apr. 29 the Young Architects Forum Korea Conference (Young Architects Forum) Vol. 11 opened under a glamorous atmosphere. There, Jae K. Kim (professor, Hanyang University), Nam Jungmin (professor, Seoul National University of Science & Technology), Ryoo In Keun (co-principal, designband YOAP), Chang Jinwoo (principal, Chang’s Kitchen), Yang Soo-in (principal, LIFETHINGS) and Chris Ro (professor, Hongik University) gave presentations on the theme ‘Virgin Experience’. This conference was the first event organized since the foundation of the 2nd Architects Forum Committee, in which Jeonghoon Lee (principal, JOHO Architecture) takes the wheel. The committee is planning to arrange various programmes such as conferences or exhibitions after setting a direction for the Young Architects Forum for up to one year from now. As the conference is their very 1st official event, they came…

On May 7, Architecture in Asia International Symposium hosted by Asia Culture Center (ACC). This symposium was the starting programme of ‘Library Study’, ACC collected resources relational programme, and its theme was ‘Creative Productions: Productive Possibilities Between the Formal and Informal Urban Fabric of Asian Cities’. Panels discussed on how modern and contemporary architecture adapted to the environmental changes, produced spaces creatively, and localized. The symposium consisted of presentations and discussions that examine the forms of Asian urban architecture. Yehre Suh (professor, Seoul National University) presented a conflict structure between form and non-form with keywords of scale, velocity and density among the factors a city has. She threw questions how non-formal urban organization can be utilized, and how culture and social productivity considered immaterially rather than economical productivity in productive…

‘Incomplete Mutation’ — Between Collective Memory and History Les Halles in Paris has been at the commercial crossroads of Paris since the Middle Ages, as the site of stock exchange as well as of an important marketplace. The district was radically transformed over the years due to population increase, while maintaining a delicate coexistence with several landmarks and monuments nearby. The recent evolution of the sector saw the displacement of markets and demolition of the pavilions. In the nineteenth century, Émile Zola famously described Les Halles as the the belly of Paris, but its image as the ‘pit of Paris’ took hold after the 1970s due to the underground development of the RER station and shopping mall construction. The new Forum project comprises five multileveled underground meeting and exchange spaces,…

TWO PERSPECTIVES OF PUBLICNESS, ARTISTIC AND SOCIAL Talking about ‘publicness’ when observing the projects of architects has two main perspectives. One is the publicness of the project process and the other is the publicness of the social implications that the project has. While the former concentrates on the artistic attitude of the architect, the latter emphasizes the common theme and embedded possibility of social communication. Understanding the publicness that is expressed in an architect’s work is observing both sides of publicness that includes artistic publicness and social publicness. Up to now the socialization process of publicness that architecture or architects has been limited to dealing with the interaction of art and sociality, and only with the unilateral delivery of publicness by the artistic way. However, for architecture to communicate with…

Seoul’s Dosan-daero contains an array of global beauty and fashion luxury brands and is now home to Sulhwasoo’s new flagship store, Korea’s largest beauty brand flagship store. The design concept of the flagship store is the ‘Lantern’. Lighting up in the darkness and guiding the way as if with a lantern, the concept embodies the wisdom of Asian aesthetics and signifies the illumination of beauty. The golden brass material which wraps around the inside and outside of the building and the interior set to different themes on every floor creates harmony between the spaces and presents the feeling of a beautiful and harmonious journey from the past to the present and future. The global architect and interior designer duo Neri & Hu were tasked with the design of this flagship…

WISE Architecture led by Young Chul Jang and Sook Hee Chun. The two architects completed several meaningful projects focusing on ordinary materiality to create extra-ordinary Architecture. They have also participated in many architectural cross over activities such as planning and executing Public Art projects. They won Korean Young Architects Awards in 2011 and Seoul Architecture Awards and Korea Design Award 2015 with Dialogue in the Dark, Bukchon.…

One can easily find the graveyard near the farm. The graveyards are located on both the western and the eastern sides, and even on the north side nearer the backyard of the house. It is uncommon to witness such placement in our culture, where the site of the living and the dead is distinctly separated. We became curious about why the building owner chose to place the house near the graveyard. Also, we were curious about the name ‘The Korean Dandelion Farm’, because dandelions are usually known for their yellow colouring. Moreover, because it is named ‘farm’, we thought of the site as a manor with a large-scale garden. However, we could not find any Korean dandelions anywhere near the house. It made us even more curious about the name.…

Finally, the construction efforts for the Eungbong Bridge to widen it into six lanes has been completed after a long journey of seven years from October 2008, partially opening four lanes to traffic on August 31 2015. The eye-catching scene laid out in the press material released that day detailed a red public structure, which was actually a sound barrier. Seemingly unfinished, the upper aluminum framework heading towards the arch of the Eungbong Bridge was not covered but had a transparent board on the frame which was looking at the opposite side of the Eungbong three-way intersection. It makes you curious about the nature of this energy, exuded by the intense color and largeness of scale. Since it was opened to traffic under the name Seongsu Bridge in March 1979,…

Not even a great architect was brought into being alone. There is also an all surrounding, ever-present support. Le Corbusier, the master of Modernism architecture was no exception. Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, also had an assistant, his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret. Cooperating as a partner architect, he was good at realising the ideas of Le Corbusier who liked drawing a big picture. From the opening of the office in 1922, two Jeannerets were mutually indispensable. Continuing his career as star-architect after they broke up due to different political creed in 1940, Le Corbusier was commissioned to carry out the design of Chandigarh, a new administrative city in India which had gained independence from the United Kingdom. He accepted the project under the condition of sending his ideas from Paris…

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the winning international Master Plan Competition for the Public Administration Town (PAT) in Multifunctional Administrative City (MAC), HAEAHN Architecture (HAEAHN) held an exhibition in K’ARTS Studio Myeong-Dong from 15 to May 21 2016. This exhibition reviews the process of materializing PAT over the past ten years viewed through HAEAHN’s eye. The process and results enacted by HAEAHN reveals changes to the original masterplan and the realised idea of masterplan in the design of two building groups out of five which were carried out by HAEAHN. Yoon Sehan (CEO, HAEAHN Architecture) explained that ‘In this exhibition, we wanted to show that HAEAHN designed masterplan of PAT.’ In late 2006, HAEAHN led the team of H Architecture and Balmori Associates to materialize a masterplan of architecture, urban…

The inauguration ceremony of the Canopy, the first stage of the redevelopment of Les Halles in downtown Paris was held on 6 April. Hoardings promoting the rebirth of Les Halles under the guidance of the phrase of Le Nouveau Coeur de Paris were already everywhere in Paris. But the site was still messy due to ongoing construction work and many people were taking pictures of the Canopy on the observation platform. Soldiers and policemen armed with machine guns were patrolling not only the site of the inauguration ceremony but also whole area of Les Halles due to the recent terror attacks in Paris, which generated a kind of tension here. The first impression of the Canopy, new face of Les Halles may not seem fresh to people who are already…

The preconditions of buildings driven by need are bound to be based on their requirements or individual situations. In general, they are determined by size, use, and construction costs, and in details, standards are established not only for physical properties like an approach method, a relationship with outdoor space, the characteristics of the shape, the usage of space, and the increase of space utility value but also aesthetical and social influence. Sometimes, all the operational elements of architecture are certain to become a challenge to overcome, and, depending on the situation, to be used as great motive for architectural concept. Thus, it is true that architects have an opportunity to analyse the meaning in order to make use of such restraints as the grounds for their concept. This means that…

The 0914 flagship store located next to the Dosan Park was launched by Simone—a company which has produced custom-made luxury handbags for nearly 30 years—as the company’s first Korean brand. The flagship store is a mixed-use commercial space for the display and purchase of 0914 merchandise and contains a cafe, restaurant and gallery. The 0914 flagship store hopes to introduce the leather manufacturing craftsmanship amassed over their long history and celebrate their brand value, which expresses the quintessential quality of handbags. The function of a flagship store was completely rethought in order to make known the unique brand spirit of 0914 among the dozens of global luxury brands in the vicinity of Dosan Park. Transcending the basic role of a flagship store for the display and purchase of merchandise, here…

We—the Milanese studio Piuarch—realises the new Givenchy flagship store in Seoul, in close collaboration with the art director of the Maison, Riccardo Tisci. The store is housed in a building located in the thriving shopping district of Gangnam-gu. The boutique has an area of about 400m2 on three levels and offers an exhibition of women's fashion, accessories, and men’s fashion. The building features a peculiar graphic façade, with a hyper-minimalist interior that reflects the themes and the allure of the brand. Designed as a sort of enclosure—a second embossed skin as an expression of an urban identity—the façade is meant to evoke the distinctive tailoring ‘T-cut’ that characterizes the style of the French brand. The ashlar surface made of electro-polished steel plates creates reflection effects that change depending on the…

Lee Hoseok graduated from the department of architecture at Dong-A University. He practiced at seogang architects, hna ongodang architects doshiin architecture, designcamp moonpark. He has established and operates Lee.haan.architects since 2014. His major works included residential housing in Yeonhui-dong, Seoul (2015), residential housing in Heungdeok, Yongin City (2016). Han Boyoung graduated from the department of architecture at Dong-A University and practiced at SAC International, Ltd. She has established and operates Lee.haan. architects since 2014. Her major works were residential housing in Yeonhui-dong, Seoul (2015), residential housing in Heungdeok, Yongin City (2016). The firm is interested in the story of tradition and set great store by attitude from the heart.…

Woo Hyunjung (Woo): I’m curious about the very earliest moments of Antivj. How was it founded? I wonder what you’d like to realise via Antivj and how you could define its meaning. Nicolas Boritch (Boritch): Antivj emerged from an encounter with four European artists (Yannick Jacquet, Olivier Ratsi, Joanie Lemercier, Romain Tardy) and myself, around 2006. They were all artists working primarily with light (video projections) and all interested at that time in exploring new formats of installation/experiential display by getting away from the standard screen / flat display format and using the world around us as a potential canvas, whether it is architecture, transparent materials, objects and so on. Our interest was, and still is, to explore new ways (or at least new to us) of creating and presenting…

On Apr. 29 The Kim Swoo Geun Foundation (director, Kim Dohoon) announced the winner of the 2016 Kim Swoo Geun Prize Preview Award (Preview Award). This year eight projects are participated: Bunker Citizens Creative Studio of U Zongxoo, Kim Vin, Choi Youngrae (co-principal, CoRe architects), SNU Southern Forest Research & Education Center of Zo Hangman (assistant professor, Seoul National University), Saeronam middle school of Young Lim, Sun Kim (principal, D-Lim architects), Sayou: Living and Thinking in Architecture of Lee Jaewoen, Lee Chihoon, Kang Yerin (co-principal, SoA), SHEAR HOUSER of Lee Seung Teak (Seoul office director, stpmj), Lim Mi Jung (New York office director, stpmj), Youngju senior center of Zhang Kiuck (co-principal, VOID architects), Yeongju Swimming Center of Kim sooyoung (principal, su:mvie architects), Aewol-up, Jejudo Church Stay Project of Ko Kiwoong…

Saâdane Afif’s solo exhibition ‘Quoi? – L’Éternité’ opened on May 10 at Atelier Hermès. That starting point is both a line from the poet Rimbaud, and lyrics written by fellow artist Lili Reynaud–Dewar, commissioned by Afif for a solo exhibition in 2004. Saâdane Afif’s works, ‘delegation and recycling’. His methodology, which can be explained through the concept of ‘Collaboration and Re-completion’, relies on the new possibilities created by the intervention of people and place. For this exhibition, Afif commissioned song lyrics from 13 artists after providing them clues about the exhibition’s origins, which were then installed together along 21 two-dimensional works of art overlapping images of the sun with pictures of the sea. The image of shining sunlight, was created by cutting three large curtains used in a performance by…

The Canopy Architect: Patrick Berger & Jacques Anziutti Architects (Patrick Berger, Jacques Anziutti) Architectural design: Patrick Berger Chief assistants: Mathieu Mercuriali Technical assistants: G. Sellier, O. Musset Site assistants: V. Grage, C. Teuschl, K. Jannot, A.Lebret (in 2015) Site total surface: 16,875m2 Site total length: 145m Site width: 125m Construction height: 14m, 50m Roof surface: 18,000m2 Envelope surface: 25,000m2 Structure, fluids, economy engineering: I ngérop conseil, ingéniérie Envelope and elevations engineering: Arcora, Emmer Pfenninger Acoustic Engineering: Acv High environmental quality engineering: Base consultants Lighting: Ingélux Glass master engineering: Emmanuel Barrois Fountain master engineering: J-M Lorca Project management: Ville de Paris Châtelet-Les Halles Station Architect: Patrick Berger & Jacques Anziutti Architects (Patrick Berger, Jacques Anziutti) Architectural design: Patrick Berger Design assistants: Julien Abinal, Mathieu Andrieu, Mathieu Mercuriali Site assistants: M. Aurenche,…

Is every architect the sum of his or her influences? This is the question eloquently addressed by the current exhibition in the architecture galleries at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, ‘A Japanese Constellation: Toyo Ito, SANAA and Beyond’. At the entrance to the galleries a large piece of paper is tacked onto the wall in a white frame, upon which a grouping of circles have been drawn in thick black pen. Delineating the ‘Surroundings’ of the Pritzker Prize winning architect Toyo Ito, this diagram depicts a web of interlocking groups of architects and engineers that have been influenced by his practice, and whose work has inspired him. Pedro Gadanho, the former curator of contemporary architecture at MoMA, and the current director of the new Museum of Art, Architecture…

Burberry’s first flagship store in Korea comprises an impressive total of 13 floors and has become a new landmark in the area. In particular, the presence of the gold façade utilizing light and shadow dominates the vicinity. Inspired by the woven Gabardine fabric form of a Burberry trench coat, the building’s metal screen was engraved with embossment and texture. When the LED lights inserted into the skin are turned on at night a gold-checkered pattern wraps around the entire building. Under the direction of Burberry’s CCO & CEO Christopher Bailey, who revived the brand with his more contemporary approach, the Burberry brand is expressed in a delicate way on the exterior in harmony with the image of a dynamic Seoul. Possibly considered the most British brand, the image of Britain…

Archihood WXY is located in Seoul, Korea and it is established by 2 young & creative architects Kang Woohyun and Kang Youngjin. The company name is from the combination of architecture & neighbourhood. Their design philosophy is, they believe that design is not for someone who is the rich nor the special. Design is near around like your neighbour. To do friendly architecture design is where they want to be in the future. Gap House and Korean Dandelion Farm are their latest projects.…

Let’s go back Why not go back, when there is an abundance of green in the country side... it hasn’t been long since we lost our way – Táo Yuan Míng, excerpt from Guiguraesa It is every architect’s desire to work on a site with remarkable scenery. These kinds of sites often speak for themselves—stimulating the imagination of the architect, wanting him/her to capture its essence. Paradoxically, one has to conceal the scenery in order to capture it. Since good scenery can be contemplated and enjoyed without necessarily existing in a built environment, it is more important to figure out where to moderate and cover up. The term ‘borrowed scenery’ means more than bringing in the good scenery, but an active action to cover and hide bad scenery. This is…