Songdo & Tulou

I went to the Museum of the City of New York and then the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum a few days ago and happened to learn about a few things happening in Asia.

There was an exhibition at the first museum, "Growing and Greening New York", that featured projects around the world that are the models of sustainable urban existence. Songdo, South Korea is one of these projects in development. It's a city being built from the ground up, supposedly with an emphasis digital and green living. On the creepy side, it feels a bit like Sim City and the Truman Show come to life but on the perhaps-not-creepy side, if we are going to build from scratch, New Songdo City seems to keep admirable goals in mind.


Songdo, Korea

Songdo


Links to the New Songdo City Official Website and an article from AIArchitect.

The Cooper-Hewitt has an exhibition on view, "Solos: Tulou/Affordable Housing in China". I read that tulou means "earthen housing" and they're typically circular in their shape. Better to just check this info out below:


Images of Tulou From the Cooper-Hewitt Website

Tulou