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post updated 22 August 2025

South Korean Architecture Designs – chronological list

18 January 2025
Hannamdong 4 Residences, Seoul
Architects: UNStudio

render : Flying Architecture and UNStudio
The development, located in the Hannamdong-4 Residences of Seoul, features a group of front-facing O-shaped towers along the Han River with an innovative, patented spiral design. Complementing these, X-shaped and L-shaped towers have been set along Bogwang-ro that lead towards the Namsan Mountain.

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11 December 2024
Tamburins Seongsu Flagship Store, Seoul
Architects: The System Lab

photo : Joonhwan Yoon
The Tamburins Seongsu Flagship Store received awards in two categories at the Frame Awards: Best Use of Light and Single-Brand Store of the Year. The System Lab was the design architect of the project.

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21 November 2023
New Campus for Hongik University, Seoul
Designers: OMA / Chris van Duijn

render : OMA
OMA / Chris van Duijn has won the architecture competition to design the new campus of Hongik University in Seoul. The scheme will add a cluster of interwoven buildings and public spaces that meld with the existing topography, aiming to strengthen the connection between the university and the city.

17 October 2023
ZHA shortlisted in 2nd Sejong Cultural Centre competition, Seoul
Designers: Zaha Hadid Architects

render : Tegmark/ZHA
Creating an interconnected sequence of indoor and outdoor public spaces that are enveloped by nature, Zaha Hadid Architects’ (ZHA) proposal for the 2nd Sejong Cultural Centre is defined by the city’s history and its unwavering optimism for the future. Connecting Yeouido Park to the Han River, the 2nd Sejong Cultural Centre is embedded within the natural landscapes of the park.

19 June 2023
National Assembly Communication Building, Seoul
Designers: Haeahn Architecture + H Architecture

Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism News
Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

4 July 2023
Adidas Asia Pacific Flagship, Seoul
Architects: Various Associates

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Seoul Architecture Design News – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

20 Dec 2022
Perpetual Spring Seoul
Designers: Obra Architects

photo : Obra Architects
Perpetual Spring, The Climate-Correcting Machine, a project commissioned by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Seoul, located in the heart of downtown Seoul, has received the Architecture MasterPrize™ (AMP) honoring international designs in various disciplines of architecture. Each submitted design in the competition was evaluated by an esteemed AMP Jury.

6 July 2022
Hana Bank, Yeouido, Seoul
Designers: INTG.

photo : Yongjoon Choi Photography
As a leading bank in Korea, Hana Bank is heavily invested in design to transform itself to adapt to a new digital era. All banks have entered a new phase with mobile and internet banking, forcing offline bank branches to come up with a new identity. Hana Bank’s private banking division wanted to change their old generation service and design.

15 April 2022
The Hyundai Seoul, South Korea Shop
Designers: BURDIFILEK

photo : Yongjoon Choi Photography
Burdifilek, a firm renowned for creating beautiful and considered spaces for global brands, is proud to unveil its visionary, multi-level design of The Hyundai Seoul, the largest department store in South Korea’s capital city. The retail landmark is part of a multi-use complex combining business, shopping, and leisure in a single destination.

11 April 2022
Apple Myeongdong Seoul
Architects: Foster + Partners

photography © Nigel Young / Foster + Partners
The newest Apple Store in South Korea, Apple Myeongdong, has now opened to the public. Located at the heart of Seoul’s vibrant commercial centre, the store is positioned at the base of a new 20-storey mixed-use tower, occupying the full width of the city block to create a grand street frontage.

15 March 2022
K-Pop Headquarters Seoul
Architects: UNStudio

photography © Rohspace
The South Korean music scene, otherwise known as K-Pop, is currently making huge strides in the global music industry. Popular with fans from Asia to the Americas, South Korean bands are currently topping the charts and selling-out stadiums.

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Seoul Architecture News 2021

29 Oct, 2021
Project H1, Seoul Masterplan
Architects: UNStudio

visualisation : WAX & Virgin Lemon
In 2019 UNStudio was invited by the Hyundai Development Company to design a superior, green, mixed-use neighbourhood in Seoul; a smart ’10-minute city’ for the new digital economy, where open innovation, green energy and diversity create an attractive and productive area to live, work and play.

19 Sep 2021
THISS x ìssí at Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021
Architects: THISS x ìssí

image courtesy of the architects office
THISS is a young multidisciplinary architecture practice, with a focus on landscape, craftsmanship and collaboration. Working in close partnership with clients, who share the same sense of curious and explorative outlook, the design team at THISS place an emphasis on both dialogue and communication as a starting point for projects.

13 Jul 2021
National Museum of Korean Literature, Seoul
Design: Architects of Invention

image courtesy of architecture practice
Just as ink revolutionised the written word, the printing press revolutionised book publication– 3D printing revolutionises architecture, how we build, with a view to innovation and sustainability. The importance of literary culture is promoted by bringing future technology and innovation – narrative and form combine, printed in an architectural gesture.

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Seoul Architecture News 2019 – 2020

4 Dec 2020
Simgok Place Seoul Building

International Design Competition for Library – SONGDO International City
The target is The Library of SONGDO International City design competition is to carry out the purpose of Incheon-city which orients ‘An International City of Northeast Asia to the World’ and is an important challenge to expand the cultural infrastructure of the local residents:
International Design Competition for Library; SONGDO International City

22 Sep 2020
Hankook Technoplex Pangyo
Design: Foster + Partners

photo : TIME OF BLUE
Top-level executives are co-located with their teams on different levels, which promotes interaction between the key members, and enables a more fluid flow of information within the company.

1 Aug 2020
The Imprint at Paradise City in Seoul

9 Jul 2020
Korean National Football Centre in Seoul

24 Apr 2020
Hanwha HQ Building in Seoul, South Korea
Architects: UNStudio

photograph © Rohspace
UNStudio’s remodelling of the Hanwha HQ Building in Seoul has been completed. With this retrofit, the headquarters of the world’s market leader in solar panels has been modernised to meet the most up to date sustainability requirements. Based on environmental considerations, a conscious decision was made to remodel the existing building, rather than for demolition and new build.

13 Mar 2020
Amorepacific Headquarters Seoul Building

24 Feb 2020
Photographic Art Museum in Seoul
Architects: MASK Architects

image courtesy of architects office
Turkish Architect Öznur Pınar Çer’s firm MASK Architects has designed “The First Photographic Art Museum in the World” which has taken a picture by itself in Seoul.

5 Jan 2020
The Conran Shop in Seoul
Architects: Conran and Partners

photo : Woo Jin Park
This new retail project is the British lifestyle brand’s first in South Korea.

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12 Dec 2019
The Weaves Landscape Design for Tancheon Valley, Seoul
Design: MVRDV

image © MVRDVk
Dutch architecture office MVRDV has won an architectural competition to redesign the Tancheon Valley and waterfront in Seoul with The Weaves, a design that knits together a tangle of pedestrian and bicycle paths, natural landscapes, and public amenities into an appealing, playful, symbolic landscape.

21 Nov 2019
Seoul Photographic Art Museum
Architects: Aidia Studio

image courtesy architects office
A Photographic Art Museum should be a celebration of light and how space and architecture can be crafted by the multiplicity of atmospheres and effects it is able to create when travelling through and into materials.

11 Nov 2019
The Imprint at Paradise City in Seoul by MVRDV
Design: MVRDV

photograph © Ossip van Duivenbode
A new 2-building art-entertainment complex close to Incheon Airport. Featuring a nightclub in one building and indoor theme park in the other, the windowless structures feature three key design elements: imprints of the façade features of surrounding buildings, lifted entrances, and a golden entrance spot covering one corner of the nightclub building.

21 Sep 2019
Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2019 News
UED affiliated company China Building Centre (CBC) is honored to be the sole Chinese representative in this year’s Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism:
2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

7 Sep 2019
AmorePacific Headquarters Seoul Interior by Kinzo, Yongsan-gu, Seoul
Design: David Chipperfield Architects ; Interior Design: Kinzo

photograph © Schnepp Renou for Kinzo

7 Jan 2019
Root Bench Seoul, Yongsan-gu
Architects: Yong Ju Lee Architecture

photograph : Kyungsub Shin
A reinterpretation of winning proposal in the Hangang Art Competition, a 30m diameter circle-shaped publicly-accessible furniture installed on grass in a park.

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Seoul Architecture News 2016 – 2018

24 Jul 2018
WAP Art Space Seoul
Architects: Davide Macullo Architects

photo : Yousub Song – Studio Worlderful, Seoul, South Korea
This work results from a close collaboration between the architect and an enlightened client capable of assimilating and encouraging architectural choices motivated by reasons that generate forms.

18 Jun 2018
Amorepacific Headquarters, Yongsan-gu, Seoul
Design: David Chipperfield Architects

photograph © Noshe
This new rectilinear building is located between the site of a spacious public park currently under development, and a business district of high-rise towers.

30 Apr 2018
LG Science Park Seoul, Magok District, Seoul
Architects: HOK with Gansam Architects

photo © GS Construction
One of the world’s largest corporate research campuses is now open for business. At more than 1 million square metres (the equivalent of 152 football pitches), LG Science Park unites staff from eight of LG’s Korean businesses in the same location for the first time.

18 Apr 2018
Dream of Chungmuro Cinematheque in Seoul
Design: Mass Studies

image from architects
The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced the release of a design sketch of the Seoul Cinematheque (tentative name), a visual art cultural complex to be built in Chungmuro, which is the center of the domestic film industry.

31 Mar 2018
Cloud Garden of General Yisabu, Gangwon-do
Design: CAA Architects

image from architects
Inspired by Taoist concept of ‘Yi,’ The project is illustrated as a metaphorical ‘cloud,’ which surrounds the mystical mount Yukyang in Samcheok city. The Architecture is stimulated by the cloud forms depicted in east Asian ancient fine art and is manifested as a series of bridges and buildings that embrace a sacred mountain within.

30 Mar 2018
Youth Center and Sport Facility Building
Architects: KILD – Ksnelashvili . Išora . Lozuraitytė . Daunys

image from architects
The site is located on the edge of newly built high-rise residential blocks and the small scale city fabric.

27 Mar 2018
Jamsil Sports Hub in Seoul Building
Architects: Studio Niko Kapa

image courtesy of architects
The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) is planning to redevelop the Jamsil Sports Complex in Seoul, South Korea. The project involves the redevelopment of Jamsil Sports Complex on 400,000sm of land.

Mar 21, 2018
Shinsegae Tower Building, Seoul, South Korea
Design: Olson Kundig Architects

photo © Kyungsub Shin
Shinsegae International, designed by Principal and Owner Tom Kundig, has won the inaugural WAN Tall Buildings Award 2017.

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20 Dec 2017
Seoul Creative Play Supporting Facility
Architects: KILD – Ksnelashvili . Išora . Lozuraitytė . Daunys

image courtesy of architects
The key aim of the proposal is to balance the high-density development and the existing public park. ‘Park Canopy’ enhances the green space with its natural potential and reaches new human-scale intervention in the park.

16 Dec 2017
Givenchy Flagship Store Seoul, Cheongdam ward, Gangnamgu shopping and fashion district
Design: Piuarch

photo © Kyungsub Shin
A building covered by a skin of dark coloured sheets of steel that changes with the light and rests on a glazed base revealing minimalist-style interiors: the new Givenchy Flagship Store in Seoul is a dynamic structure generating varying optical effects.

12 Sep 2017
17 High-Rise Buildings – Woosung Residential Complex, Seoul
Design: AllesWirdGut

illustrations: expressiv / AllesWirdGut
For an invited architectural competition, AllesWirdGut developed a design for a 3,000-unit residential quarter in the South-Korean capital city of Seoul. The proposal for the 120,000 m² area situated in a privileged waterside location is for a development of 17 high-rise buildings on amorphously shaped plinths, which combines high densification and urbanity with a strong identity-generating character and maximum amenity quality.

25 Jul 2017
Namdaemun Office Building in Seoul
Design: Mecanoo

image courtesy of architects
With its stark linear facade patterns, the Namdaemun Office Building in Seoul stands out from the vibrant market district that surround it. The office tower is Mecanoo’s first completed project in South Korea’s capital.

25 Jun 2017 – page updated with new images ; 17 May 2012
Yongsan Tower, Seoul Skyscraper Building, Business District
Design: REX

image : Luxigon
Block R6 is a narrow parcel bounded by the planned Mountain Park—including Children’s Interactive Spray Park, Rail Road Museum, Outdoor Amphitheater, and Yongsan Station Esplanade—and the central park of the planned development Zone B3, adjacent to Hangang-ro. By placing the building to the south of Block R6, all units command great views and the building forms a gateway to YIBD from Hangang-ro.

25 Jun 2017 – page updated with new images ; 10 May 2012
Dancing Dragons Seoul, Yongsan Towers: Skyscrapers
Design: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture

image © AS+GG
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture is pleased to announce its design for Dancing Dragons, a pair of landmark supertall mixed-use towers for the new Yongsan International Business District in Seoul, South Korea. The buildings, which include residential, “officetel” and retail elements, consist of slender, sharply angled mini-towers cantilevered around a central core.

23 Jun 2017
Yangjaegogae Eco Bridge Design Competition in Seoul
Architects: KILD – Ksnelashvili . Išora . Lozuraitytė . Daunys

image courtesy of architects
The Eco Bridge proposal is based on a simple and pure concept: to recreate the link that once existed in the current situation of the infrastructural void with a spatial structure that would be atmospherically reminiscent to a pictorial passage through the southern slopes of the two discontinued mountain peaks of Mt. Umyeon and Maljukgeori Parks.

8 Jun 2017
LG Science Park Seoul Building
Architects: HOK with Gansam Architects

image courtesy of architects
LG Science Park, the HOK-designed 11.8 million-sq.-ft. research and science campus for global consumer and electronics brand LG Group, is now three quarters of the way to completion. The next-generation campus will accommodate LG researchers from disciplines including electronics, chemistry, nanotechnology, display, fabrication, life sciences and new materials.

22 Apr 2017
Young Architect Program in Korea Finalist Proposal, near Gyeongbokgung Palace, northern Seoul
Design: Jae Kim Architect

image from architect
This proposal and narrative, ‘The first time we met’, started from the question of what the origin of our society and architecture are.

Mar 16, 2017
Shinsegae Office Tower Building
Design: Olson Kundig Architects

photograph fro architects

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South Korean Capital Architectural Updates 2006 – 2015

Seoul Architecture – selection of some older building news:

12 Jun 2013
Gangnam Style Seoul – Chungha Building
Design: MVRDV

photo : ShinkyoungSub
Just before a Korean pop-song became a global success on YouTube for the first time in history, and Gangnam became world famous as the nouveau riche hangout of the South-Korean capital Seoul, MVRDV was commissioned to redefine a building on Gangnam’s chic Apgujung Road.

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4 Dec 2012
New Swiss Embassy in Seoul
Design: Kubota & Bachmann Architects

image : JIGEN
This proposal’s design aims to respond to environmental factors, site context, and climate conditions. The subtly detailed architecture is secluded by a surrounding wall and vegetative screen.

13 Oct 2012
IFC Seoul Mall, South Korea
Design: Benoy

image from architects
Benoy announce the opening of their first development in Korea with the introduction of the dynamic IFC Seoul Mall. This new retail mall is part of the landmark IFC Seoul mixed use development, located in the prime business district of Yeouido.

5 Jul 2012
French Restaurant in Seoul, Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu
BANG by MIN emerging design group

image : Choi, Jungwoo
‘La Ville de Pins’ is a French Restaurant Remodeling project in Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, which is the hottest district at metropolitan area in the city of Seoul, Korea. I thought that the conciseness might tell the message more strongly in the age when the extraordinary designs are rampant formatively and visually.

13 Jun 2012
Velo Towers Seoul
Asymptote Architecture

image © Asymptote Architecture
Asymptote Architecture principals Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture are pleased to announce the launch of the Velo Towers, within the Dreamhub development in the Yongsan District. Asymptote’s building is designed as an integral part of the master plan accommodating several new projects that are situated along the newly planned Yongsan Park.