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HAEUNDAE GALBI HOUSE has been rooted in one place since 1964 and has become a landmark representing Haeundae. It began as a small establishment with just three rooms, but around 1970, when the Gyeongbu Expressway opened and Haeundae Beach started attracting more tourists, the restaurant grew alongside the development of the area. Over time, three hanok-style buildings were constructed, and modern structures were added above them, resulting in its current form. Now operated by the third generation, it carries 60 years of history and is preparing for a century-long legacy. Dahae Park In the past, the restaurant embodied many symbolic elements: tiled roofs, a traditional gate, trees, a courtyard, alleys between buildings, low horizontal... More

A leading Korean bank, Hana Bank, asked Professor Seuk Hoon Kim of Hanyang University and Studio Eccentric to design an exclusive bank space for their highest net worth individual clients in an old and affluent neighborhood Dogok-dong in Gangnam, south of the river in Seoul. Realizing private banking is underpinned by personal service, ranging from holiday booking to financial programs to support the next generation, the design team decided to center on modest and understated Korean hospitality. Mingu Kang Mingu Kang The Design Concept – ‘Aesthetic of Korean Moderation’-Embodying the traditional Korean aesthetics of modesty and understated mind in hospitality, the design offers a calm yet profound spatial experi... More

52 Market Place is the all-day-dining restaurant located in voco Seoul Myeongdong, Seoul, South Korea. The design team's intention was to draw visitors' attention and consider the connectivity of the space by arranging intense, patterned floor finishes and furniture along with warm wood along the central axis. Kiwoong Hong Kiwoong Hong Studio Eccentric More

There is a place where people of Seoul may have heard at least once when they think of Cheongnyangri District, which is Gyeongdong Market. It is Seoul’s largest traditional market since 1960, and it naturally started by the trade of herbal medicines that came from all parts of the country to this particular transportation hub area. As you enter the center of the market, you can find at a glance a very unique red brick building. Mingu Kang The two-story building was originally built in 1955 for the purpose of a cow feed warehouse; five years before the Gyeongdong Market was established. The building was once the center of this market, where merchants came in and out every day, but gradually was abandoned and forgotten over time.... More

The design of this house all started from a small bonsai tree. The client’s first and the most important request for the design team was to have a bonsai tree in his house to enjoy and appreciate it during his stay. This was why the house was named as, ‘Songwoohun(松遇軒)’, which has a meaning of a ‘House encountering a Bonsai tree’. As the client stayed abroad most time of the year, he wanted to consider the house to be a pleasant place to rest, enjoy, and appreciate with his family members and friends. Mingu Kang Mingu Kang Led by Eccentric Design Lab of Hanyang University and the team of Studio Eccentric, the main approach for the full renovation of 240 square-meter residential project was to create... More

The client has lived in this neighborhood since his youth. The house he lived in for a long time is old, and the train that used to run in front of the house, which was a symbol of the neighborhood, no longer runs. Although a lot has changed, the client still likes this neighborhood. They wanted to build a new red house that resembled an old brick house. kimyongsu kimyongsu kimyongsu kimyongsu More

Taste is an element of human nature that sets the direction of one’s inclination for something. Caption Caption With different time in life and traces of experience, people naturally have different tastes. Showcase Zone invites audiences to the heart of respecting each and every one’s taste, and through this, to the time and space of nature layered in seemingly similar but different layers. It will be a space filled with thrill of meeting crafts of various tastes, enabling audiences to discover their own taste rather than regarding crafts from the viewpoint of current trends of generality. Caption Caption More

Facing a reservoir built to store agricultural water, the site is recovering its primitive landscape day by day and trying to resemble a natural lake. This place might have formed a natural boundary with waters along a slope. But one day, humans hands found the place, and they cut paths through it and laid out stone walls along these paths to impose a hierarchy on the land. Inevitably, however, a development rush that can be commonly found in any suburb areas came in. Such a situation requested to establish a new relationship between architecture and land as well as architecture and architecture.  The plots given to three architects share borders with each other, but their different hierarchical position is forming a clear boundar... More

In Building,dwelling, thinking, Heidegger mentioned about the relationship about dwelling like below.“These buildings house man. He inhabits them and yet does not dwell in them, when to dwell means merely that we take shelter in them. In today’s housing shortage even this much is reassuring and to the good; residential buildings do indeed provide shelter; today’s houses may even be well planned, easy to keep, attractively cheap, open to air, light, and sun, but-do the houses in themselves hold any guarantee that dwelling occurs in them? Yet those buildings that are not dwelling places remain in turn determined by dwelling insofar as they serve man’s dwelling.”In this text ,Heidegger is posing a problem of architecture that dose not approach... More