Dongdaemun History and Culture Park

Dongdaemun History and Culture Park was a project started in 2007 designed by Zaha Hadid.

The project is huge (about 85,400 sq. meters) and has six parts:

1 Dongdaemun Design Plaza

2 Restored Castle Wall (seoul seonggwak)

3 Event Hall & Cafe

4 Dongdaemun Stadium Memorial

5 Dongdaemun History Museum

6 Design Gallery

Originally the project was supposed to be finished in March 2010, but is at least a year behind schedule.

Designed by Zaha Hadid

(My first Zaha building!)

Little nugget sleeping

Full scale mock-up of how the concrete forms are constructed.

Hard at work

Full scale mock up

There are three of these, but things still need to be worked out.

"Section" View

Insulation

Backside of the full-scale mock up.

Walkable roof on main building

Construction Site...insanity!

uh oh!

Construction craziness

We were right in the middle of things. Good thing we were wearing hard hats.

The project is huge

Hard at work - there were so many people working on the site.

More constructing

Proof I was there!

Walkway to the park, which is finished.

Relics were found during construction, so the program was redesigned to accommodate them.

Plastic bottle sculpture awesome-ness!

Relic Park

Finished portion of the project

Brendi!

Brendi and Uki strolling through the park.

More finished portions.

Our guide showing us the old palace wall found during construction.

Look at how smooth that concrete is!

Old palace wall that is being kept and was incorporated into the design after construction began.

Traditional drumming

Park walkway

Big building under construction

The group on the roof terrace.

The view from the top.

Dongdaemun area

Inside the completed pavilion. It looks like a room out of the future.

Awesome model of the project.