Metonymic Landscape, Zaha Hadid, Seoul, South Korea

 

The Design Lab amongst Zaha Hadid's 'Metonymic Landscape' is a beautiful organically formed building which both blends with its accompany landscaping and is interrupted by it. A geometric and ordered concrete bridge passes right through the building, the rectanlinear cityscape piercing the bulbous form; attacked by the cityscape it itself attempts to disrupt. This brings the two different realms of architecture together through a dynamism of action from one form and reaction from another. At such huge scale, this drama is fonomial to be amongst and explore for the external landscape in which this all takes place. 

Thinking back to studying organic form for humble old North Place in Cheltenham, how exciting it might be to host such an exciting architectural intervention there.