Best of Pyongyang's architecture - The Korea Times
Jun 29, 2012 · Since the Korean War, North Korean leaders have used architecture to express the national character of the state. Standing at right is the 170-meter Juche Tower completed in 1982 on the eastern...
Illusion and Design: North Korean Architecture - Daily NK English
Apr 18, 2017 · The city’s relative growth is an important factor that has enabled the Kim family to maintain a hold on power for three generations. Foreign visitors are often entranced by the city of Pyongyang, as the city’s facade of leisure reduces feelings of anxiety.
(PDF) Hapkak and Curtain Wall: Imaginaries of Tradition and …
The architecture developed in North Korea since its foundation in 1948 but especially since the proclamation of the Juche thought as the unique state ideology in the early 1960s, has included two major referential imaginaries: the Korean traditional
Inside Pyongyang, North Korea’s Capital of Control
Jan 3, 2024 · Every detail of the city’s architecture and urban planning is in service to the Kim dynasty. North Korea’s late leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il tower over visitors to the Grand Monument...
'Self-Reliant' Architecture and Body in North Korea, circa 1980
'Self-Reliant' Architecture and Body in North Korea, circa 1980 Dear Leader Kim Jong-il observing the newly constructed Kwangbok Street with his father, the Great Comrade Kim Il-sung. (Source: Dialogues on Juche Architecture, vol. 3, 41.)
How North Korea Uses Design to Craft a Socialist Fairy Tale
Nov 5, 2018 · That year, the North Korean capital city was reimagined by its founding father, Eternal President Kim Il Sung, as a "great garden of Juche architecture," (Juche is the national ideology of...
What North Korea's Architecture Tells Us About Their ... - ArchDaily
Mar 22, 2020 · Intended to open for a celebration of Kim Il-sung in 2012, it still remains far from finished and completely off-limits, but is easily one of the most well known icons of North Korean...
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May 23, 2014 · The Korea pavilion has been a part of the Venice Architecture Biennale since 1993, when the optimism of the post-Berlin Wall era made reunification between North and South Korea seem plausible. But getting equal representation from both Northern and Southern architects in 2014 has proved nearly...
How North Korea Uses Design to Craft a Socialist Fairy Tale
Nov 5, 2018 · The Arch of Triumph was built to honor Kim Il Sung's 70th birthday and is modeled after Paris's Arc de Triomphe, though nearly 33 feet taller.
Inside Pyongyang: Architecture & Ideology of North Korea - MSN
Jan 13, 2025 · Explore Pyongyang, the city designed to serve the Kim dynasty’s vision of a ‘Communist paradise.’ From pastel-painted Soviet housing blocks to the iconic Juche Tower, see how every building ...