Archinect - News2024-12-23T14:35:03-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150428298/new-photos-depicting-north-korea-s-architecture-of-control
New photos depicting North Korea's 'Architecture of Control' Josh Niland2024-05-20T18:41:00-04:00>2024-05-21T13:52:16-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/85/85e4569806ba79e8e43c446b499677de.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Reuters has <a href="https://www.reuters.com/pictures/architecture-control-north-koreas-bizarre-post-modern-cityscapes-2024-05-19/" target="_blank">published</a> images of the DPRK's showcase architecture in a new photo essay titled 'Architecture of control: North Korea's bizarre, post-modern cityscapes,' which shows a rare glimpse at the post-modern building activity in <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/77318/pyongyang" target="_blank">Pyongyang</a>. </p>
<p>It comes as the state pursues a <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150300368/north-korea-breaks-ground-on-the-next-phase-of-its-50-000-unit-development-plan" target="_blank">new building program</a> meant to yield 50,000 new residences in the capital by about this time next year, an effort aided by labor from military academy cadets and meant to match its housing shortage at "Pyongyang Speed."</p>
<p>The architectural designers of most of these buildings remain unknown. Their likely source is the nearby Paektusan Academy of Architecture.</p>
https://archinect.com/news/article/150258387/north-korea-s-kim-jong-un-renews-call-for-rapid-housing-construction
North Korea's Kim Jong Un renews call for rapid housing construction Orhan Ayyüce2021-04-06T20:15:00-04:00>2022-03-14T10:33:14-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/11/11ea3df675aaf4db8b40f66f9b65f5a4.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Strict supervision over every construction process must be exercised, building materials economized in every way with high demand, accidents of all kinds prevented and excellent construction experience introduced...</p></em><br /><br /><p>Looks like bombs aren't the only things Kim Jong Un is building. And, aren't <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/35208101/imploding-the-pruitt-igoe-myth" target="_blank">we more dynamite-centric</a> on the subject matter? </p>
<p>Now that <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/143668960/pyongyang-speed-north-korea-miraculously-cranks-out-massive-residential-development-for-scientists-in-only-one-year" target="_blank">they have the know-how</a>...</p>
<p>We will need to remember something we have *forgotten.</p>
<p>*Public housing.</p>