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12/06/2008 Entry: "MVRDV Wins Gwanggyo City Centre Competition in South Korea"

The Daewoo Consortium and the municipality of Gwanggyo announced the MVRDV concept design for a dense city centre winner of the developer’s competition for the future new town of Gwanggyo, located 35km south of the Korean capital Seoul. The plan consists of a series of overgrown hill shaped buildings with high programmatic diversity, aiming for high urban density and encouragement of further developments around this so-called ‘Power Centre’, one of the envisioned two centre’s of the future new town.

http://bustler.net/index.php/article/mvrdv_wins_gwanggyo_city_centre_competition_in_south_korea/