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\u00a0<\/span>How can architecture be a force for good in our ever-changing world? During\u00a0Future Fest<\/a>, we\u2019ll pose this question to some of the world\u2019s best architects. Launching in September, our three-week-long virtual event will be 100% free to attend.\u00a0Register here<\/a>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

When architect Kim Chung-up first introduced<\/a> concrete to South Korea in 1962 with his design of the French Embassy in Seoul, the material quickly heralded a bold new age for Korean architecture. In the country\u2019s rapidly growing cities, architects substituted wood with the new material and discarded much of the country\u2019s traditional architectural style for homegrown versions of European Brutalism. Concrete came to symbolize Korea\u2019s post-civil war modernization; and the material\u2019s practical properties \u2014 including its availability, cost-effectiveness, and versatility \u2014 made it perfectly suited for a country undergoing unprecedented economic and industrial growth.<\/p>\n

Half a century later, though, the country\u2019s unquestioned embrace of concrete has started to show cracks. Today, much of Seoul\u2019s cityscape looks like a sea of austere, monotonous mid-century concrete structures; the novelty that once attracted architects to the material has long been replaced by dull practicality. For the past decade, a new wave of architects has been looking to jolt the city out of its utilitarian slumber. They are revisiting the blueprints honed by legendary architects Kim Chung-up and Kim Swoo-geun, breathing new life into the now-ubiquitous material. And while the city remains firmly cemented in its brutalist ways, Seoul\u2019s architects are taking the style in new directions, making concrete exciting \u2014 and stylish \u2014 once again.<\/p>\n

\"\" Yeorim<\/strong><\/a> by URCODE ARCHITECTURE<\/a>, Seoul, South Korea<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The main challenge for the designers of this multipurpose commercial and residential building in the neighborhood of Yangjae-dong was to ensure privacy without compromising natural lighting. Their solution is unconventional and stylish: concrete building blocks with openings of various sizes and positions within the building\u2019s fac\u0327ade. The blocks allow for patches of checkered sunlight throughout the apartments while maintaining an unimposing opacity from the outside. The varied patterns of the building blocks also enliven an otherwise smooth external concrete finish.<\/p>\n

\"\" \"\"HWN HQ.<\/a><\/strong> by OBBA<\/a>, Seoul, South Korea<\/p>\n

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The new headquarters of HWN, a company that sells jeans in Dongdaemun, Seoul, consists of three concrete boxes piled onto one another, each of a distinct texture: concrete casted with OSB plywood at the base, exposed concrete chipped by a waterjet in the middle, and generic exposed concrete at the top. The boxes\u2019 unique features echo the properties of HWN\u2019s main product: jeans, like concrete, will change color and textures depending on how its fabric is treated.<\/p>\n

\"\" \"\"Unicity<\/a> <\/strong>by D Werker Architects<\/a>, Seoul, South Korea<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Built on an awkward patch of land within a tightly packed neighborhood of apartments in Mapo-gu, Unicity makes full use of its peculiar circumstances to stand out. Strict zoning laws compelled the firm D Werker Architects to make creative use of the ground floor to accommodate parking, and the unique asymmetry of the base reverberates all the way to the top; slanted concrete floor sections intercut one another, making Unicity a truly idiosyncratic gem among the monotony and symmetry that surrounds it.<\/p>\n

\"\" \"\"Kukje Gallery<\/strong> <\/a>by SO-IL<\/a>, Seoul, South Korea<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Kukje Gallery, in the historic Samcheong-ro neighborhood, was built from the inside-out. The building\u2019s interior maintains a geometrical and spatial purity that leaves nothing but art to distract the visitor\u2019s eye. This means, however, that all the functional properties of the building have been thrown outside; no problem, argue the architects, who cloak the exterior with a mesh fac\u0327ade, smoothening out some of the building\u2019s discordant shapes.<\/p>\n

\"\" \"\"\u00a0Moai<\/strong><\/a> by L’EAU design co<\/a>., Ltd., Seoul, South Korea<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Moai development might stand out from the neighboring multiplexes in Samjeon-dong thanks to an eye-catching combination of wood, metal paneling and brick walls, but it doesn\u2019t take itself too seriously. Above the monolithic black of the bottom commercial floors, square windows protrude whimsically and unpredictably from the slanted back brick wall \u2014 and could be mistaken for refurbished television sets from the 90s.<\/p>\n

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Photos by Youngchae Park<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

mise en abyme<\/a> <\/strong>by Studio Gaon<\/a>, Seoul, South Korea<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mise en abyme, an office space built for a photographer in Nonhyeon-dong, Gangnam, has the pictorial ethos cemented into its very walls. The large rectangular windows embrace Seoul\u2019s hilly landscape by enabling upper floors to \u2018frame\u2019 segments of the city\u2019s skyline, from near and far. The framing concept extends outside, with rectangular openings of reinforced concrete partitioning the sunlight for the building\u2019s immediate surroundings.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>How can architecture be a force for good in our ever-changing world? During\u00a0Future Fest<\/a>, we\u2019ll pose this question to some of the world\u2019s best architects. Launching in September, our three-week-long virtual event will be 100% free to attend.\u00a0Register here<\/a>!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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