Chungnam Art Museum
Chungcheongnam-do, Korea[finalist, invited competition]
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YLaM Cultural Center
Yeoido, Korea[competition entry]
Pyeongchang Larchiveum
Seoul, Korea The strategy of the Pyeongchang Larchiveum is to preserve the original slope of the site, providing a new natural experience defining the Arts Complex. By working with the character of the slope, construction costs can be minimized. Secondly, the strategy creates a path of movement that encompasses both the urban and natural character […]
White Block Gallery
Heyri, Korea [ AIANE Design Award, AIA/BSA Honor Award, American Architecture Award ] The White Block Gallery is a 1500m2 exhibition and cultural space at the heart of the Heyri Art Valley in South Korea. A matrix of 3 solid gallery volumes carefully positioned creates 7 additional galleries in a compact but open ended configuration. Designed […]
Cade Museum
Gainesville, Florida[ 2nd Place, National Competition ] The needs of museums are shifting: Instead of merely being places of display, they are becoming places of interactive learning that promote multidisciplinary, synthetic ways of thinking. Many institutions like the CADE are also shifting the definition away from the passive to the active tense with the mission […]
Seoul City Public Library
Seoul, Korea[Competition Entry]
Shinan Library
Shinan, Jeonnam Province, South Korea[competition]
Czech National Library
Prague, Czech Republic [international competition, jury selection] As both a secure repository of books and a symbolic civic building, a national library must negotiate the spatial dichotomy between storage and display. Through a strategy of ‘light monumentality’ the book stacks are formed into a curved two-way truss that protects and defines a public winter-garden […]
Last chance to see Convergent Flux
This is the final week of the exhibit, Convergent Flux: Korea at the Korea Society, an interactive exhibition on contemporary Korean architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design first shown at the Harvard GSD, curated by Jinhee Park and John Hong. Please feel free to visit the gallery at: 950 3rd Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10022. We will keep you posted on the […]
The Center for Arts at the Armory is completed
In terms of preservation strategies, armories are truly a difficult urban building type. Once a place for military training, they are now becoming almost wholly obsolete: Their vast interior drill hall and their monumental footprint makes them difficult to convert to any other urban program including housing. Meanwhile, many of them appear on highly restrictive state or national historic registers. […]