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10 Years of Design Competitions: Are design competitions still the best way of commissioning public ARCHITECTURE?

In 2013, the Act On The Promotion Of Building Service Industry was amended to prioritise the use of competition methods for orders above the notified amount (approximately 200 million KRW). In 2019, an amendment to the enforcement decree expanded the scope of the projects requiring a competition process to design fe...

Nov 16, 2023
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10 Years of Design Competitions: Revisiting 30...

This list collates examples of design competitions that were either abandoned or the original winning propo...

Nov 13, 2023
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Elsewhere, Woven with Intuition and Experience:...

A resort is a kind of paradise, a place that evokes a ‘elsewhere’, set apart from everyday life. As ‘elsewh...

Nov 10, 2023
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Elsewhere, Woven with Intuition and Experience:...

In many situations, a prelinguistic utterance precedes formal language: it can be an intuitive, ‘instinctua...

Nov 09, 2023
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Design Competitions: Tracing a Decade-Long Traj...

Since the 1960s, design competitions have been the means behind the construction of major public buildings ...

Nov 07, 2023
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Elsewhere, Woven with Intuition and Experience:...

SKM Architects (hereinafter SKM), regards architecture and the city as living organisms, and has made effor...

Nov 06, 2023
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Existing as an Entity: Lee Younjeong, Jeon Pi...

Oct 26, 2023
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Hyper-megacity Development Strategy for Future ...

Last month, SPACE assessed the activities of the Mid-Size City Forum (co-principals, Lee Janghwan, Lee Sang...

Oct 25, 2023
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0 to 1, Architecture Is a Process

An architect is the facilitator of collaborations, one who uncovers and connects intangible needs and value...

Oct 19, 2023
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0 to 1, Architecture Is a Process

Architecture is a socio-ecological organism. Let’s call the organisation of a physical site (in terms of ph...

Oct 18, 2023
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The Healthy Coexistence of Architecture and our...

There are moments when a critic and an architect, or a curator and an artist, in sharing an awareness of an...

Oct 17, 2023
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Restoring and Revising Architecture: French E...

While Kim Chung-up responded to the postwar era’s challenge of architectural representation of tradition th...

Oct 13, 2023
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Restoring and Revising Architecture: French Emb...

We consulted the Modern Cultural Heritage Advisory Group, including professor Ahn Changmo, gathering expert...

Oct 11, 2023
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The Healthy Coexistence of Architecture and our...

Rather than relegating climate issues to instrumental methods such as reducing our energy or carbon emissio...

Oct 10, 2023
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IN SEARCH FOR THE FUTURE OF SEOUL, A CITY OF WA...

Now in its fourth year, the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (hereinafter Seoul Biennale), focus...

Oct 05, 2023
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The Healthy Coexistence of Architecture and our...

Modern industrial society has overcome many challenges through technology, but it has also ruined our natur...

Oct 05, 2023
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Less Restrictions and Limitations: A More Imagi...

The Seoul MARU Public Intervention (hereinafter Seoul MARU) is becoming a major pavilion competition in Kor...

Sept 25, 2023
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Placing Stepping Stones as Imagined: Park Hyungwoo

ʻI am an Architectʼ was planned to meet young architects who seek their own architecture in a var...

Sept 20, 2023
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Cultivating Healthy Architecture: BLDUS

Health and eco-friendliness are typically considered to be synonymous with slowness, tediousness, and high-...

Sept 19, 2023
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When Textiles Become Architecture: Studio Akane...

Can textiles be a building material? Textiles of flexible and lightweight properties have long been disrega...

Sept 15, 2023
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Relations and Boundaries: Concrete Is Concrete

Such attempts by NAMELESS Architecture continue to evoke the strategies of Minimal Art. In a broader contex...

Sept 13, 2023