2024-11-21T11:58:05-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150451450/meier-partners-share-photos-of-completed-sorol-art-museum-in-south-korea Josh Niland 2024-10-23T07:57:00-04:00 >2024-10-23T13:41:26-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/5b/5b928f4ca05d0e8e0fe4261c202879e2.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/4912/richard-meier-partners-architects-llp" target="_blank">Meier Partners</a> has shared the latest images of their completed Sorol Art Museum project in Gangneung, South Korea. The update follows the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150414731/meier-partners-completes-sorol-art-museum-in-south-korea" target="_blank">February debut</a> of the 336,500-square-foot museum, which is dedicated to Korean artists and designed to elicit the aesthetic tenets of Confucian philosophy. The firm&rsquo;s first completed work since <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150270676/richard-meier-is-retiring-as-name-change-signals-firm-restructuring" target="_blank">restructuring in 2021</a> matches the site&rsquo;s topographical conditions while arranging galleries in a T-shaped circulatory route that enables a "personal journey of discovery."</p> <p>Dukho Yeon, the Partner-in-Charge for the project, described at its opening as a "modest but lyrical composition incised into this spectacular landscape that would become the perfect backdrop for art and remain forever memorable to all who visit."</p> <p>You can see for yourself in Roland Halbe&rsquo;s photos below. Three other projects, including a new children&rsquo;s museum and the Kiwoom Finance Square tower, will follow in Seoul.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/40/405bd927cda24617ada4d7025c53625b.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/40/405bd927cda24617ada4d7025c53625b.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image: &copy; Roland Halbe</figcaption></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/16/1625b8c60113e215864d301ca7ad20cc.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/16/1625b8c60113e215864d301ca7ad20cc.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image: &copy; Roland Halbe</figcaption></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/3e/3e2c6349b846bb06c41805f994e83dc6.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/3e/3e2c6349b846bb06c41805f994e83dc6.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image: &copy; Roland Halbe</figcaption></figure><figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d9/d9970dbf7bee87319506cdfdb5f44ad5.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d9/d9970dbf7bee87319506cdfdb5f44ad5.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image: &copy; R...</figcaption></figure> https://archinect.com/news/article/150414731/meier-partners-completes-sorol-art-museum-in-south-korea Josh Niland 2024-01-30T18:43:00-05:00 >2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/f7/f7203ae95faa4e8c6dc4094a3df90ce8.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/meierpartners" target="_blank">Meier Partners</a> has shared news of the recent completion of its Sorol Art Museum design in Gangneung, South Korea. The 336,500-square-foot project is meant to provide space for an immersive dialogue between Korean artists and the outside world and is the firm&rsquo;s first completed work since its <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150270676/richard-meier-is-retiring-as-name-change-signals-firm-restructuring" target="_blank">2021 restructuring</a>.</p> <p>The building's internal structure is defined by a dual concept that arranges space into introverted and extroverted inter-dynamics based on the aesthetic theory of Korean Confucian philosophy. According to the architects, the external form utilizes the hillside&rsquo;s natural topography to present the art inside on a pedestal to visitors in a way that also establishes the connection between nature and architecture as another core tenet of their experiences.&nbsp;</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/62/620ebd54396a24222aeb032bfe15323a.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/62/620ebd54396a24222aeb032bfe15323a.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;enlarge=true&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image courtesy Meier Partners/Yongbaek Lee</figcaption></figure><p>Curators will have the option of controlling the gradations of light sources, both natural and artificial, inside the large skylit main exhibition space and smaller galleries. In a proj...</p>