Seoul transit hub design wins award

• 15 January 2018
• Local News
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An international competition to design a USD1.2bn transport hub and shopping centre for the Gangnam district of Seoul has been won by French firm Dominique Perrault Architecture.

The multi-use development in downtown Seoul will feature a train station, shops, an art gallery, and educational centre and parks, and when complete will be the largest underground complex in South Korea.

Named ‘Lightwalk’, the 160,000 sq m development will extend underground for six floors with a 28,000 sq m “Green Land” park on top. The project is named after the enormous glass ceiling that allows light to penetrate to the building’s interior.

“It is a minimalistic, yet incredibly powerful gesture, which marks the presence of a new major integrated public transportation station for the city of Seoul,” said Dominique Perrault Architecture in a statement.