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South Korean Building Designs

Key Contemporary Architectural Developments, Northeast Asia.

post updated 1 September 2024

We’ve selected what we feel are the key examples of South Korean Building Designs.

We cover completed buildings and new building designs South Korea. The focus is on contemporary South Korea buildings but information on traditional buildings is also welcome.

We have 4 pages of South Korean Architecture selections.

Building Designs in South Korea

Korean Architecture : news + key projects (this page)

Korean Building Developments : A-E

Korean Building Designs : F-O (this page)

Korean Buildings : P-Z

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South Korea Architecture Designs

New South Korean Architectural Designs – latest additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

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

image : Choi, Jungwoo
French Restaurant in Seoul
‘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.

30 May 2012
Harmony Tower, Yongsan Business District, Seoul
Studio Daniel Libeskind

image © Crystal
Harmony Tower Seoul
This Korean Skyscraper Building is part of the new Yongsan International Business district (YIBD) development in Seoul, is an iconic, 21st century sustainable office tower that is 46 floors. The design for the tower is inspired by YunDeung, traditional Korean paper lanterns.

13 Jun 2012
Kukje Gallery Seoul
Design: SO – IL

photograph : Iwan Baan
Kukje Gallery Seoul
After 3 years of design and construction, SO – IL, the architectural studio of Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu, complete a space for Kukje Gallery, in the historic neighborhood of Samcheong-ro in Seoul, South-Korea. The new building greatly expands the gallery’s programming possibilities with the addition of a 16 x 9 x 6m day lit gallery space, a 60 seat auditorium, offices and art storage spaces.

Major South Korean Building Projects, alphabetical:

Floating Observatory
Design: Kyungam Architects Associates

picture from architect office
Floating Observatory Korea

Floating Stage, Seoul
Kyungam Architects Associates

image from architect
Floating Stage

Galleria Centercity, Cheonan
Design: UNStudio

photo : Kim Yong-kwan
Galleria Centercity Cheonan

Galleria Hall West, Seoul
UNStudio

photo : Seoul building, UNStudio 2007
Seoul building

Gapyong Space Invader
Design: NL Architects

image from architects
Gapyong Building

Garak Market Redevelopment, Seoul
Design: Samoo Architects & Engineers

picture from architect
Garak Market Buildings

Gwanggyo City Centre Competition
MVRDV

image from MVRDV
Gwanggyo Competition, near Seoul

Incheon Masterplan
Foster + Partners

image : Foster + Partners
Korean Masterplan Competition

I’Park City, Suwon
UNStudio

image : UNStudio
I’Park City Suwon

I’Park City Model House, Suwon
UNStudio

photo : Christian Richters
I’Park City Model House

Jeonbuk Region LH Corporation HQ
DA Group

picture from architect
Jeonbuk Region LH Corporation HQ

Jeongok Prehistory Museum
X-TU

photo from architect
Jeongok Prehistory Museum

La Maison Hermès Dosan Park, Seoul
RDAI

picture © Masao Nishikawa
La Maison Hermès Dosan Park Seoul

The LG Kangnam Building, Seoul
Design: Skidmore Owings Merrill LLP

photo : SOM
LG Kangnam Building Development

The Nam June Paik, Yongin, South Korea
Gottesman-Szmelcman Architecture

picture from architects
Nam June Paik Museum, Gyeonggi

South Korean Building Designs – No Images

Korean Architecture, alphabetical:

Gallery Yeh, Seoul
2007
Unsangdong Architects Cooperation – Yoon Gyoo & Hoon Shin Chang

Hangil Book House, Seoul
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ShoP Architects

Hyundai Development Corporation HQ – Facade, Seoul
2003-05
Daniel Libeskind Architect

Loop House, Heiry Art Valley
2007
NL Architects

Lotte Super tower, Seoul, South Korea
2007-
SOM

Metro Hotel, Seoul
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H & A Architects

Multi-fuctional administrative city, Yeongi
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Architecture competition: 1st prize
Andrés Perea Ortega

More South Korean Architecture projects online soon

Location: South Korea, Eastern Asia

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Incheon International Airport, Incheon
Design: Fentress Architects
Main airport terminal (left) and adjacent mass transportation hub:

picture © Paul Dingman 2010

Yongsan International Business District, Seoul
Daniel Libeskind
Seoul Masterplan competition : winner

Incheon Urban Design Competition : Incheon Metropolitan City, 2009

picture from organiser

Japanese Architecture

Chinese Architecture

South Korea Architecture Competition

Buildings / photos for the South Korean Building Designs page welcome.