From 1970 to 2017, from Seoul Station Overpass to Seoullo 7017
The Seoullo 7017 opened May 20. It’s the signature project of Seoul’s mayor Park Won-Soon and designed by the star architect Winy Maas from MVRDV. This article takes you on...
Preview of Seoul Station 7017
There are still eight months left until the Seoul Station 7017, Seoul’s newest and most innovative public space, is going to open in April 2017. Just recently, Seoul opened to...
Seoul 7017 Project under Risk
Update – 25.11.15: At a press conference today Seoul announced that the permanent closure is pushed back to 13 December. MOLIT submitted their final decision today but Seoul still has...
‘Before and After’ – Public space transformations in Korea
This is a guest post by Yuval Fogelson. He is an urban designer, based in São Paulo, Brazil, currently working at Def Projetos, an architecture office specializing in urban projects,...
Design for Seoul Station Overpass
The Seoul Station Overpass is going to close for traffic and transform to a public space until 2017. The project was inspired by New York’s High Line and it is...
Seoul’s High Line Project
Seoul has torn down a lot of overpasses in the last ten years. Alone in this year two overpasses (Ahyeon overpass and Yaksu overpass) have been removed. The majority of...