[...] One of its latest projects: Inviting a North Korean architect to imagine the future of local design for travel.
The Jetsons-style results include hovercraft hotel rooms and cone-shaped mountain villas connected by ski slopes. Nothing looks like it would be that out of place in a 1950s magazine, down to details like an old-fashioned rotary phone. This is what the future looks like to someone living in a place that's been cut off from the rest of the world since 1948.
— fastcoexist.com
The project Utopian Tours, initiated by English-born landscape architect turned Beijing-based North Korea tour operator Nick Bonner, was part of the Korean Peninsula’s “Crow’s Eye View” pavilion for the 2014 Venice Biennale (previously on Archinect).
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Two of my FAVORITE Instagram feeds I've been following for a while are by two Western tour operators, who work with Nick Bonner at Koryo Tours in North Korea.
Their casual snapshots give a human face to the people living in this otherwise faceless piece of earth.
Lots of architectural goodies, too!
@hannahkoryo
@simonkoryo
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