UNTIL BECOMING SEOUL HALL OF URBANISM & ARCHITECTURE
In October 2015, the Seoul Metropolitan Government initiated ‘Sejong-daero Historic Cultural Space Design Competition’ with the aim of ‘setting up the site of the (former) National Tax Service Annex as a base facility specialized in history and culture’. As a consequence, the first prize was awarded to the ‘Seoul Chronicle’, a design proposal to express the temporal accumulation of Seoul while lowering the building’s profile as much as possible in order to offer a new point of view. Later, in March of this year, the design revealed itself under the name of the ‘Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture’.
The Seoul Hall of Urbanism & Architecture is built on the site where the National Tax Service’s Namdaemun annex was demolished. Cultural assets such as Deoksugung Palace, Gyeonghuigung Palace, and Sungnyemun, along with the
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