S. Korea invites architects to draft new ‘soul of Seoul’

Updated Friday, July 4, 2008 0:00 am TWN, AFP

S. Korea invites architects to draft new ‘soul of Seoul’

SEOUL -- Five of the world’s top architects will compete to draft a master plan for a US$28 billion international business hub aimed at transforming the South Korean capital, developers said Thursday. “This is one of the biggest projects we have ever done,” said Nina Libeskind of the New York-based Studio Daniel Libeskind. “It is the soul of Seoul,” she told a press conference about the planned 57-hectare (140-acre) development in Yongsan district close to the city center.

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