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Wallpaper - Best city 5. Seoul
2010-01-21
A wave of new design and architecture is surging through Seoul. Host to this year’s Design Olympiad and selected as 2010’s World Design Capital, the city saw Rem Koolhaas’s shape-changing Transformer cultural pavilion for Prada open next to the Gyeonghui Palace earlier this year. Other upcoming architecture projects include Daniel Libeskind’s addition to the Yongsan financial district, which will feature hotels, flats and shopping centres by 2016, and Zaha Hadid’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Park, set to open in 2011. Landmark shopping destinations – such as Rena Dumas’s gilded block for Hermès, Ann Demeulemeester’s burrow-like store and UNStudio’s seminal Galleria Department Store ...
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