… of a good thing:
This is the winner of a design competition for Gwanggyo, a new town near Seoul, Korea.
But really, even in Asia, do these things ever get built as designed?
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Arrggh! My eyes!
Looks great to me. It`s a high-density, mixed-use, walkable community that will likely have good connections to public transit. Plus it has interesting unique iconic architecture.
This is the suburbs of Seoul, and compared to the horrible sprawl in Vaughan, Ontario that you`ve been writing about recently, this is awesome.
Looks like Le Corbusier’s Ville Radieuse with towers a different shape. These highly disciplined residents all agree to have identical overflowing balcony gardens, and to socialize in canyons of blank walls.
Well, the plants on the balconies will probably die over time (the water systems will fail or non-gardeners will let them die due to incompetence).
Ultimately, it’s a multi-tower project with interesting podiums. It’s quite urban in that the ground plane isn’t grassy fields. The surrounding green space can be ignored, since it’s probably an “in isolation” style of rendering – not showing the context of surrounding buildings.