The 16th Gwangju Biennale, directed by Ho Tzu Nyen, explores change through five galleries spanning volcanic matter, bodily routines, collective memory and air.
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For the 2025 Seoul Biennale, Bureau de Change translated Korean roof-tile, timber and bamboo craft traditions into a layered concrete wall made with crushed reclaimed hanok tiles.
In Lying on the floor, Eunkyung Lee turns unintended places of rest at home into low cast-aluminium forms shaped by hand marks and deliberate instability.
Seoul studio builddweller designed a translucent display system for PRESENT PRESENT’s compact booth at INVENTARIO 2026, organising colourful stationery around the perimeter while keeping the centre open for browsing.
TYPE S combines rough masonry, polished metal and warm timber inside Juno Hair Sung-su 2nd, a salon shaped by contrasting spaces in Seoul.
LOFA SEOUL reinterprets traditional Korean hwamunseok through craft, antiques and contemporary design in the RE:WEAVE / LEGACY exhibition.
Monologue café by SOSOKKI ANAC reimagines architecture as a temporal and contemplative experience shaped by memory, light, and material.
Concrete Utopia reimagines discarded concrete pipes as a fragmentary urban system, proposing new ways of thinking about reuse, climate, and the future of the material city.
- Pontoatelier builds three freestanding rooms in Matosinhos to house the Lucio Costa Archive
- Tadao Cern’s French Exit hangs a wheat field overhead and leaves it in the care of others
- Marius Boekhorst’s Violet Pixel turns flowers into an abstract painting behind patterned glass
- In Piraeus, MPNYC turns a scarred port warehouse into Castor Place without erasing its past
- KiKi ARCHi turns The Ongoing Future in Beijing into a circular journey through AI
- Heatherwick Studio’s 1000 Trees lifts a park onto columns above Suzhou Creek
