After nine years of planning, construction and plenty of buzz, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art is finally ready to open its doors. The three-building museum was designed by Mario Botta, Jean Nouvel and Rem Koolhaas. Read
This project had been called 'S-project' in Korea among architects and some architecture students.(S for the initial of Samsung) I fisrt heard of it 5 yrs ago only about who designed it, but was not able to hear anything regarding design itself even if one of my colleague was working for the museum designed by Rem Koolhaas for a couple of yrs. He just refused to talk about the design because the client just did want it open to public. But he added the reason why the client didn't want it could be that the museum complex was just next to the residence of the president of Samsung Corporation.
The official opening of the museum is just in few days time. But no one can visit there without booking until the end of the conference held there.
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first time I hear of this project. Seems like it would have attracted a lot more previous attention. Anyone seen any designs for this?
This project had been called 'S-project' in Korea among architects and some architecture students.(S for the initial of Samsung) I fisrt heard of it 5 yrs ago only about who designed it, but was not able to hear anything regarding design itself even if one of my colleague was working for the museum designed by Rem Koolhaas for a couple of yrs. He just refused to talk about the design because the client just did want it open to public. But he added the reason why the client didn't want it could be that the museum complex was just next to the residence of the president of Samsung Corporation.
The official opening of the museum is just in few days time. But no one can visit there without booking until the end of the conference held there.
At The official website of Leeum Museum(IE on windows only :s), you can see VERY few pics of the buildings.
The Korea Times has a couple of shots today...
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