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CELINE: Introducing A New Identity Through the Design of Its Flagship Store

The Celine store on Madison Avenue in New York, designed by Hedi Slimane - scouted as Celine's new creative director - opened in February. While the store maintains a minimal colour palette, various materials such as rock, metal, and wood have been harmonised. More than anything else, the art projects that lie throu...

Jun 05, 2019
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[Series] Living Sejong, Reading Sejong: Questio...

Living Sejong, Reading Sejong: Questions After One Year (1)The development background and the current sit...

Jun 05, 2019
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About Ever-Growing Knots

Inspired by his mother’s knitting, Lee Kwangho began to braid wires, hoses, and PVC tubes. His lighting and...

May 29, 2019
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[Essay] Things that Realize a Communal Life

Faced with a declining and aging population, small cities are losing their inhabitants and are under threat...

May 22, 2019
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[Critique] Engaging with the Rural Landscape

Unlike metropolitan districts, which are mostly shaped by the market, rural areas are modified primarily by...

May 22, 2019
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Imagine Ten Years After of A Building: Seongsu ...

In January, a building that was once a chemical plant in Seongsu-dong, Daemyung Chemical, was renovated and...

May 10, 2019
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Designing Lightweight Architecture for Recyclin...

Last winter, just as any other year, an ice rink was installed in front of the Seoul Plaza. However, this t...

May 10, 2019
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[Essay] An Attitude to Campus Architecture

Choi Moongyu (professor, Yonsei University)

Apr 26, 2019
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[Critique] Narrative Architecture in the Era of...

These days, where the absoluteness of aesthetic standards in design is often in doubt, I feel it increasing...

Apr 26, 2019
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[Essay] Fragments that are Present and also Rea...

Seo Seungmo (principal, Samuso Hyojadong)

Mar 28, 2019
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[Critique] And That Leaves the Problem of the E...

Mar 28, 2019
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Nathalie Du Pasquier: Memphis Tennessee

Nathalie Du Pasquier’s exhibition ‘The Strange Order of Things’ is held at PACE Gallery Seoul from Mar. 8 t...

Mar 28, 2019
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The Creative Convergence of Modernity and the V...

The Cambodia ACLEDA Institute of Business Campus project was launched with the objective of establishing an...

Mar 22, 2019
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A History From Six Perspectives

‘Immortality in the Cloud’, on display at the Ilmin Museum of Art, explores how history adopts new conventi...

Mar 22, 2019
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[Roundtable] Blooming a Talk Flower with NUNA

Yang Soo-in (principal, Lifethings) x Ko Kiwoong (principal, Office 53427) x Kim Kwangsoo (principal, studi...

Mar 04, 2019
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Min Joung-Ki

‘Min Joung-Ki’ | KUKJE GALLERY | Jan. 29 – Mar. 3, 2019

Feb 26, 2019
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The Glass Pyramid Dissapears

‘Unveiling’ | Perrotin Seoul | 17 January – 9 March, 2019

Feb 26, 2019
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Asking Questions of Architecture Issues in Kore...

A conference to discuss the current issues facing the Korean architectural scene was hosted by Seung H-Sang...

Feb 25, 2019
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Unexpected Resonances: Contact Points of Contem...

‘Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s –1990s’, a special international exhibition that illuminate...

Feb 25, 2019
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Controversy over the Design Competition for New...

The Design Competition for New Government Complex Sejong has become a hot topic in the architectural field....

Feb 01, 2019
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The Reality of Architecture of Storage Sites

In Feb. 2013, ‘Tobacco processing plant; It Exists’ by Wondoshi Architects Group and Teamten architecture o...

Jan 30, 2019