Three-metre-wide house in Seoul by AIN Group accommodates three individual residents
Seoul architecture studio AIN Group has built a three-metre-wide house for three residents in one of the city's most densely populated districts. More
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UTAA extends South Korean children's centre with "a house within a house"
A house-shaped extension protrudes from the side of this children's centre by Seoul studio UTAA, providing a playful space for reading that faces out onto a garden (+ slideshow). More
Seoul apartment block by Archihood WXY features tunnel-like balconies and gabled corners
This Seoul residential block was designed by local studio Archihood WXY to look like a cluster of four buildings, with each facade featuring a gabled profile in just one corner (+ slideshow). More
Volcanic stone structures pump fresh water from the sea surrounding a South Korean island
A team of architects, artists and scientists has built a pair of basalt structures on the shoreline of a South Korean island to help to draw up fresh water from a spring below the sea. More
Concave walls give a scalloped outline to mixed-use block by Iroje KHM Architects
The scooped walls of this aluminium-clad retail and housing complex were designed by Iroje KHM Architects to mimic the concave roofs of traditional Korean houses (+ slideshow). More
Studio GAON creates multiple frames on Seoul photography studio facade
Protruding windows and overlapping walls create the impression of picture frames on the exterior of this office and studio for a photographer in Seoul, completed by local firm Studio GAON (+ slideshow). More
Gallery for ceramic artist Jung Gil-Young is camouflaged behind mirrored walls
Yoon Space Design has completed a gallery dedicated to the work of South Korean potter Jung Gil-Young, featuring mirrored walls that help camouflage the building against its countryside setting (+ slideshow). More
Bow-wow House by Design Band YOAP is a guesthouse for dog lovers in rural South Korea
This dog-friendly guesthouse and residence in the South Korean province of Chungcheongnam features doors decorated with canine illustrations and a sloping playground overlooking the rural landscape (+ slideshow). More
White Block Gallery by SsD features fritted glass designed to evoke morning fog
The windows of this art gallery in South Korea's Paju district are fritted with a pattern that regulates views of the interior, and creates the illusion of fog around the edges of the building (+ slideshow). More
172M2 House by JMY Architects maintains privacy with a blank facade and a secluded garden
The front of this family home in South Korea comprises three blank white blocks, designed to shield views from the house opposite, while the rear is glazed to open it out to a protected garden and balcony (+ slideshow). More
Irregular gables give a jagged roofline to Chae-Pereira's Gwangmyeong Upcycle Art Center
Seoul studio Chae-Pereira Architects has added a greenhouse-like educational facility clad in translucent plastic panels to an arts centre in the South Korean city of Gwangmyeong (+ slideshow). More
Tapered office building in Seoul avoids overshadowing its neighbours
This office block for a cosmetics company in South Korea's capital was designed by architect Dongjin Kim as a conical volume, to ensure surrounding buildings still get adequate daylight and privacy. More
Concave facades on twin buildings by Moon Hoon create moon-shaped indents
A huge sphere appears to have imprinted the concrete facades of these neighbouring buildings near Seoul, both designed by South Korean architect Moon Hoon (+ slideshow). More
Nameless Architecture reinterprets the traditional Korean door using resin and silicone
The timber frame and paper panes of the traditional Korean door were replaced with a resin grid and flexible silicone for this installation at a Seoul gallery (+ slideshow). More
Every occupant has their own domain in South Korean home by Engineforce Architects
A trio of overlapping buildings all pointed in different directions make up this house in South Korea, designed by Engineforce Architects to accommodate a family of three (+ slideshow). More
Triangle School by Nameless Architecture has a three-sided courtyard at its centre
A triangular courtyard is contained at the centre of this three-sided high school in South Korea by Nameless Architecture (+ slideshow). More
MVRDV to transform Seoul overpass into High Line-inspired park
Dutch firm MVRDV has been selected to transform an elevated road in Seoul into a public park that could become South Korea's answer to the High Line. More
Studio GAON completes a concrete cafe beside a dual carriageway in South Korea
A plot left unused for decades because of its awkward triangular shape is now the home of this concrete cafe designed by South Korean office Studio GAON (+ slideshow). More
Wise Architecture dismantles a 300-year-old house and resurrects it as a cafe
An abandoned house in a small South Korean town has been converted into a cafe by Seoul-based studio Wise Architecture, with a bamboo frame erected around it to provide a terrace for customers (+ slideshow). More
Gablepack by AND features a facade of house-shaped windows
House-shaped windows of different sizes protrude from the facade of this mixed-use building in South Korea, offering clues about the "three-dimensional puzzle-like composition" of rooms inside (+ slideshow). More