Sunday, January 22, 2012

New Waterfront Cities

Songdo IBD, Seoul, South Korea
Songdo IBD is being developed on 1,500 acres of reclaimed land in South Korea along Incheon's waterfront, 40 miles from Seoul and just 7 miles from Incheon International Airport. Developed by Gale International and Korea's POSCO E&C, this master-planned metropolis is a model of sustainable, city-scale development and innovation. The first phase of the new international city opened in August 2009. -- official web site
Read an article from Architectural Record 

HafenCity, Hamburg, Germany
The idea of a new inner-city district was conceived soon after the fall of the Wall and the Iron Curtain. Before publication of the blueprint for HafenCity, the Masterplan, in 2000, important fundamentals had already been put in place in the 1990s .
....currently Europe’s largest inner-city development project – is a blueprint for the development of a European city on the waterfront. -- official web site

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