01 tallinna linnahall
an all topography – within as on its back – sports- and culture-complex between land and water, planned in the late 60s, finished for the 1980 olympics.

[view from nw; photo: mg]

[foyerscape with retractable semi-circular curtainwall towards auditorium; photo: js]

a flounder, measuring about 450m in length at a mere 20m in height, between ocean and public roofscape. raine karp & riina altmäe’s metabolist creature not having seated its 5.000 seat semi-circular auditorium for some time now, it sits and waits, was listed in the meantime, sits and waits. and the tides are rising, and tallinn municipality reportedly plans to shortly strip it of its guardian crew.

[comparing size: sewoon-sangga (seoul/kr) and linnahall (tallinn/ee); scribble: js]

oh how we do love these gentle and sad giants yearning for love & care.
same eras sewoon-sangga sure comes to mind and makes us wonder how she’s doing nowadays..

02 integrated gutter
almost origami: an adorable out-of-line additional standing seam that smartly makes your gutter obsolete.

[there’s one more (standing) seam; photo: js]

03 added sucker
do add, not replace!

[chimney – extended version; photo: js]

04 monument cemetary
along with a dozend other same era monuments from all over hiiu island, kivi jüri‘s granitean head of 10 tons (+ its 40 ton plynth) in 2022 got deported off the kärdla roundabout where it was sitting since 1966 to a forest camp.
sorted?

[monument cemetary, hiiumaa, photo: mg]

05 beatles forever
the image of your traditional splendour of hair transported from fragmites australis to tongue-and-grooven volumes

[photos: js]

06 white brick buildings
at first the buildings seemed very rough to us, because of the unplastered sand-lime bricks. with our western european architectural background, our viewing habits quickly classify this as a shell …but then we thought of herman herzberger.

[kärdla, vabaduse, photo:mg]

at second glance, we were delighted by the good proportions, sculptural roof shapes, and functional details… we were impressed by how the vabaduse settlement with three and a half open block structures in kärdla achieved a very high architectural quality with simple means: the apartments are arranged on half the floor. the red-painted wooden elements are a perfect color and material combination with the white bricks. they contrast with finesse, elegance, and detail. the horizontality is emphasized by the red base zones, the red balcony parapets, which are only inserted above the floor level, and the ribbon windows with their extra-long, visible lintels. unfortunately, the original red finish of the window frames was not retained when the new white frames and windows were installed. I could write more about the balconies, which are accessible from the stairwell and serve as a place to hang laundry, the beautiful front doors, and the compact staircases. i wonder what the layout of the apartments is? who was the architect? was the development built in the 1980s? the architecture is perfect; he public space, which mainly serves as a parking lot could add more beauty.

07 dressed-up blockhouses
asdfasdf

[wood-cladded wood-block-constructions. liepaja/latvija. photo: mg]

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[west sea aka east sea; photo: js]

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[@KORDON, kärdla, hiiumaa, eesti vabarik; photo: js]

architects in residence @ KORDON on hiiumaa/ee
soon more …

»From September 26th to 29th, Cinema City Alvalade, receives the first edition of
Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisbon,
an event that celebrates the encounter between cinema and architecture.«

we are more than happy that two of our recent archtiectural movies,
sewoonsanga – utopia of a monster
[d: jan schabert, seong-hoon heo, jae-young kim, sang-ryeol kim, hyeong-gyu seong, wenwen tao, 2011]

as well as
i-wish
[d: jan schabert; 2013]

will be shown on this festival.

>> program [download]

photo: Do You Mean Architecture

… our first edition went really well, we had 1150 people watching films … [Sofia Mourato] ]]> https://www.architekturusw.de/veroeffentlichung-release/%ea%b3%84%eb%8c%80-04-se-woon-sang-ga-bef.html Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:50:27 +0000 http://www.architekturusw.de/?p=2771 Read More...]]> »Architecture has begun to focus on abandoned buildings in the past few years worldwide. Politically undesirable structures, ruins of modern buildings with lost function due to social changes, settlements emptied by natural disasters and „skeletons” left behind by arrested developments as results of the financial crisis – same questions in different shapes: what to do with abandoned spaces, how to provide them with new function, how could they fit to the new requirements of built environment.«
[from kek.org.hu]

we can happily & proudly announce that
sewoonsanga–utopia of a monster
세운상가 – 괴물 의상향
sewoonsanga – egy szörnyeteg utópiája
was selected for
BÉF2013
the 5. Budapesti Építészeti Filmnapok/5th Budapest Architecture Film Days.
It will be screened [in redux version with hungarian subtitles (!)] on the 1st of march 2013 at 19:30 hrs
in Toldi mozi/Toldi Cinema.

[© photos: Kovats Daniel/BEF]

the budapest architecture film days are held by KÉK,
the hungarian contemporary architecture centre.

>> 세운상가 @ béf

Because we love crazy buildings, we couldn’t resist this last moment entry which was really way too late…
sewoonsanga – utopia of a monster has been selected for the 2011 edition of the bienal architecture film festival rotterdam.

screenings
→ saturday, 08. october 2011 @ 19:45 hrs
→ sunday, 09. october 2011 @ 18:30 hrs in lantarenvenster, cinema 1

a documentary movie by jan schabert, hyeong-gyu seong, jae-young kim, sang-ryeol kim, seong-hoon heo, wenwen tao
editing consultant: antonia fenn, berlin/d
funding: BISA research fund, Keimyung University

Kein anderer Architekt des 20. Jahrhunderts war in Korea einflussreicher als Kim Swoo Geun. Während er aber in seiner Heimat bis heute eine Berühmtheit ist, stellt sich uns – auch 25 Jahre nach seinem Tod – noch immer die gleiche Frage, die bereits 1979 ein Time-Life-Redakteur formulierte: „Ob er wohl jemals auch internationale Bekanntheit erlangt?“ (…) Kim Swoo Geun wurde 1931 in Cheongjin, in der Provinz Hamgyong-Namdo im Norden Koreas, geboren. Zum Studium schrieb er sich an der National University von Seoul im Fachbereich Architektur ein, für einen von seinerzeit nur zwei Studiengängen mit vierjähriger Dauer. Sein Studium währte noch keine drei Monate, als der Koreakrieg ausbrach. Nicht in der Lage, aus Seoul zu fliehen, wurde Kim von nordkoreanischen Soldaten zum Militärdienst beordert. Mit knapper Not gelang es ihm, sich der Anordnung zu entziehen und er machte sich, gerade 20 Jahre alt, als blinder Passagier auf den Weg nach Japan, um dort seine Studien fortzusetzen. Nach seinem ersten Abschluss am Tokyo Art College, wo er zu den Schützlingen Yoshimura Junjos gehörte, wechselte Kim zum erfolgreichen Masterstudium an die Tokyo University. Im Jahr 1959, Kim war zu dieser Zeit Doktorand in Tokyo, gewann er mit einer Gruppe junger koreanischer Studenten den Wettbewerb für den Entwurf des koreanischen Parlaments. Zwar kam es, da die korrupte Regierung Rhee kurze Zeit später durch einen Volksaufstand gestürzt wurde, nicht zur Verwirklichung des Projekts, doch immerhin versetzte es Kim in den Stand, in seine Heimat zurückkehren zu können. Kim Swoo Geuns Karriere nahm einen steilen Anstieg, als er die Gunst des neuen Militärregimes Park Chung Hees erlangte. Im Zuge der Industrialisierungsbestrebungen des Landes fielen ihm erste wichtige Projekte zu, die er im skulpturalen Stil des Brutalismus ausführte. Zu den herausragenden Arbeiten dieser ersten Phase gehören die Hill Top Bar (1961), das Freedom Center and Tower Hotel (1963), das Buyeo Museum (1965) und das KIST Main Building (1967). Unter Kims Ägide als Präsident der koreanischen Engineering and Consulting Cooperation entstanden umfassende Planungen für die städtebauliche Neugestaltung der Insel Yoido, zur Sanierung des Zentrums von Seoul und für den Bau eines neuen internationalen Flughafens.
[Pai Hyungmin, University of Seoul auf www.aedes-arc.de]