South Korea: Wave of the Future
- Posted by: Morgan Clendaniel
- on January 13, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Check out some of the crazy proposals for new urban development in Ansan, South Korea, a city a little south of Seoul. The capital of the DPRK ROK is already a shining mecca of both high-tech urbanism (the country has one of the best broadband and cellular data networks in the world) as well as environmentalism (see this piece from our State of the Planet issue about the Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project, in which a major road was turned into an enormous park, and this piece about Oh Se-hoon, their innovative mayor). The renderings, by BIG, INABA, MAD, and mass studies, are the architectural insanity equivalent of concept cars at auto shows, but it seems like if anyone was going to take a chance on something nuts, South Korea might be the place.
Way more images and video over at Design Boom.
Via GOOD contributor Cliff Kuang, in Fast Company.
DISCUSSION: 6 Comments
DPRK is not South Korea
Corrected, thanks. Always confusing when those brutal dictatorships call themselves a democracy.
Good article. My wife is Korean, and we go there every two years to visit family, and I am willing to bet that South Korea will do what they say. As is, they have some of the most beautiful public restrooms that you could imagine, and their highway rest stops are amazing, they are like walking into a food court at a mall, and the restrooms at the highway reststops are a thing of beauty, complete with interior gardens with trees, flowers. . they put us here in the US to shame. Yea, they will push forward with their designs.
thats the most fucking ugly thing i have ever seen
if that is what the future will look like. i want to die
anonymous @12:48: you haven’t looked in the mirror lately