Monday, March 23, 2009

Marmot Shrugged -- aka Architecture in Korea

In keeping with the architectural theme today over at the Marmot's Hole, I thought I would link to the March issue of Wallpaper magazine, which featured a look at 19 major buildings in and around Seoul, either in the works or recently completed.


Another link is here (almost the same, but also includes a link to a gallery about the Seoul Design Olympiad of last fall). And here is one more story from that issue, but that I could not find on the actual Wallpaper website.


Don't forget, Seoul is on deck to become the World Design Capital in 2010, taking over from Turin, Italy.

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4 comments:

  1. kushibo3/23/2009 2:41 PM

    In the first picture, the building in the upper right corner looks a bit like a toilet bowl.

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  2. Mark Russell3/23/2009 2:56 PM

    Not really surprising, is it, considering that Korea is the founder and host of the World Toilet Association.
    http://en.wtaa.or.kr

    Now that I am thinking of the WTAA, I do wonder why Korea had to found its own toilet organization, instead of merely joining the World Toilet Organization in Singapore?
    http://www.worldtoilet.org/

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  3. kushibo3/23/2009 3:00 PM

    I don't know, but you might find a clue in the fact that the WTAA would come before WTO in the phone book or in an international sporting event. ;)

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  4. Mark Russell3/23/2009 3:03 PM

    Actually, I heard that the World Toilet Organization was originally called the Global Toilet Organization, but the Japanese changed their name just so the WTAA would be listed first.

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