Park1538 Gwangyang
Park1538 Gwangyang Cultural Facility by Unsangdong Architects and Posco A&C is a winner of the 2026 Platinum A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design.
Park1538 Gwangyang is a Platinum A' Design Award winner, an extremely prestigious recognition granted to truly exceptional, elegant, and magnificent designs.
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Park1538 is located in a city with a long history of steel. The project turns this industrial past into a cultural place open to the public and introduces visitors to the material, the process, and the history of making steel. Steel is often seen as heavy and rigid, but this project shows another side of the material by expressing flexibility through form and space. A cantilever hall creates an open plaza below, while vertical ribs guide visitors through layered spaces and link the different levels of the building.
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Park1538 Gwangyang by Unsangdong Architects and Posco A&C
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Cultural Facility
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Architecture, Building and Structure Design Award Winner in 2026.
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Park1538 Gwangyang Cultural Facility
Park1538 Gwangyang is a Platinum A' Design Award winner, an extremely prestigious recognition granted to truly exceptional, elegant, and magnificent designs. Platinum winners are marvels of creation, testaments to the limits of intellectual creativity, and demonstrate the unmatched professionalism and genius of their designers. These designs are expected to be the most renowned works that define the aesthetics of an era, contribute to the well-being of society, and push the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Park1538 Gwangyang exhibits a transcendent level of excellence and unequivocally makes the world a better place with its advantageous and worthwhile characteristics. Park1538 Gwangyang is a Platinum A' Design Award-winning work that triggers desires, inspires, excites, delights, and sparks great joy.
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Unsangdong Architects and Posco A&C
UnSangDong Architects is the experimental group organized to realize conceptual architecture with variable possibilities of cultural contents. The main research and project of Unsangdong Architects is based on the diversity of architecture. In 2007, Unsangdong Architects received AR Awards from "Architectural Review" which is world-famous architectural award. UnSangDong Architects reveived Vanguard Award from Architectural Record that is awarded to innovative architects in the word in 2006. As the first lecturer amongst the Korean architects. Also Unsangdong Architects gave a lecture for RIBA in 2008. Jang introduced the idea of “space coordinator” and showed experimental works at “Ssamzie Project”, the Seoul Museum of Art “Cheonggyechun” exhibition and the “Preliminary Aleart” exhibition.
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Posco
POSCO is a leading South Korean multinational steel-making company headquartered in Pohang, founded in 1968. As a top-tier global producer, it specializes in steel, eco-friendly infrastructure, and future materials, including secondary battery materials.
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