British magazine Monocle commissioned me to photograph the newly-open Swiss Embassy in Seoul for their Summer Weekly Newspaper. The Embassy opened in May 2019 and I went to photograph it at the end of June. I found out on the morning of the shoot that the writer had taken ill …
The silver edifice with sleek curvature boasts of being the world’s largest atypical building. But one could not be blamed for thinking a UFO landed in Seoul. 21 March 2015 marks the one-year anniversary of the opening of the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP), a behemoth conceived by celebrated British architect Zaha Hadid. It took seven years of design and construction for the DDP to come alive.
Daniel Tandler is a German architect at the architecture firm Urban Detail in Seoul, Korea and a good friend of mine. Urban Detail specializes in hanok – Korean traditional housing – design and renovation. Daniel and other young architects at Urban Detail teamed up with hanok masters to form the architectural cooperative …