Brutalist Architecture North Korea

North korean capital pyongyang s strangely beautiful architecture revealed by photographers given access to buildings normally off limits to foreigners.

Brutalist architecture north korea. Initially surfaced in the middle of the 20th century in part as a quick economical solution to the urban destruction wrought by world war ii. They designed impressive structures marked by modernist futurist and brutalist influences. Brutalist buildings are characterized by minimalist constructions that showcase the bare building materials and visible structural elements over decorative design. Had this been achieved it would have held the title of world s tallest hotel.

At first centered in england the style spread across the. Once the tallest building in the world work has stopped multiple. Professor hyon sob kim writes in the map s introduction from early on korean architects explored expressive qualities of concrete in architecture with or without other materials. The art of the japanese duration.

Almost completely destroyed during the korean war 1950 1953 pyongyang raised from its ashes in the 1960 s and 70 s with the help of architects often trained in the soviet union. The infamous ryugyong hotel in pyongyang may have stolen the spotlight but north korea can boast many other examples of unusual cutting edge architecture. It has even reached north korea where the concrete pyramidal structure of the ryugyong hotel reaches 105 storeys into the sky. The ryugyong hotel is 330 metres 1 080 ft tall making it the most prominent feature of pyongyang s skyline and by far the tallest structure in north korea.

Aug 5 2016 4 00pm. Brutalist architecture or new brutalism is an architectural style which emerged during the 1950s in great britain among the reconstruction projects of the post war era. Construction of the ryugyong hotel was intended to be completed in time for the 80th birthday of president kim il sung in 1992. Why brutalist architecture is sending out an sos duration.

Brutalism in architecture seen in the work of le corbusier from the late 1940s with the unité d habitation in marseilles the term was first used by alison smithson in 1953 for an unexecuted project for a house in colville place soho in which she described its warehouse aesthetic of bare concrete brick and wood as the first exponent of the new brutalism in england. With béton brut raw concrete as its namesake and primary material brutalism. The korea central zoo also known as the pyongyang central zoo was founded in 1959 but recently underwent an extensive makeover re opening in july of 2016.