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Completed in 2022 in Euijeongbu, South Korea. Images by Kyungsub Shin, Kang MinGu. Located in the Gosan district of Uijeongbu, ANArKH Café & Restaurant is a cultural complex where café, bakery, food, and art coexist. There are...

With more than 9.4 million people living in the capital city sprawling 605 square kilometers, Seoul is one of the most crowded cities in the world. It boasts a population density of some 15,567 people per square kilometer. New York City, by comparison, has a population density of about 11,313 people per square kilometer. It comes as no surprise that in Seoul, where space is scarce, we build not only above ground and ...

Architecture projects from Simplex Architecture, based in Seoul - South Korea, an Architecture Office firm centered around Refurbishment

Completed in 2021 in Chuncheon, South Korea. Images by Yousub Song. Bomnae Theater in Memory of Chuncheon Citizens - ‘Bomnae’ is an archaic word for Chuncheon. Bomnae Theater was a performance arena that long played a...

© Kyungsub Shin The Space Beneath Overpasses Which Was in Need of Improvement - Infrastructure such as railways and bridges, which encouraged rapid economic development in Seoul, was often built with inadequate attention to the surrounding urban context and environment. Traces of this inattention can be found throughout the city, and one of them remains the spaces beneath overpasses. The space beneath overpasses is generally neglected or used as a site for dumping rubbish or parking your car,...