Andamiro – Happy City Plaza Sejong, Korea [Third Place Prize, National Agency for Administrative City Construction, Korea Land & Housing Corporation] The problem with the current location and form of Symbolic Square site has the characteristic of corridor: a path the transports users to many of the city, rather than attracting and connecting the citizens. In the […]
Boston, MA | 2007 [Architecture Boston Feature] Boston City Hall occupies one of the best pieces of land in Boston. At the intersection of 3 major subway lines and at the geographical heart of downtown, this is an ideal location for a dynamic civic center; however the current City Hall is accused of failing to […]
Seoul, Korea The repetitive mid-rise apartment block is the dominant form of residential building in Korea and other dense cities. First introduced in the time of a national-scale housing shortage, building techniques that efficiently ‘pack’ units against a standardized solar exposure while expediting construction time were implemented, arguably offsetting what could have been a much […]
Thu Thiem, Vietnam The proposed plaza, park, and bridge hosts ceremonial and everyday events in a new mixed-use district for Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Our project creates a kilometer long plaza, green in its physical presence, green in its construction and dynamically scalable to the events of the city. Floating above the entire […]
Boston, MA [honorable mention, international competition] It is the reciprocal edge between water and land that makes an island an extraordinary natural resource and public amenity. As an urban gateway to the Boston Harbor Islands, the structural roof-form or this design becomes a literal/metaphorical reference to this junction of water and land. Where the ‘actual’ […]
