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Galleria Gwanggyo

Location: Gwanggyo, Suwon, Gyeonggi
Year: 2020

Record of Galleria Gwanggyo around its opening, where a faceted glass loop winds up a stone-clad mass.

Galleria Gwanggyo, designed by OMA (partner in charge Chris van Duijn) and opened in March 2020, photographed around the time it opened. The facade is clad in triangular stone panels stacked like strata, wrapped by a glazed public walkway that winds upward across it.

A view from the surrounding city and a top-down aerial establish how the loop reads against the mass; the stone facade and the glazing are shown close up before the sequence moves inside the walkway, closing with the lower facade at dusk.

PH-01·01 Galleria Gwanggyo seen among the high-rise blocks of Gwanggyo new town Timelimit Content CredentialsCreator, source and edit history are signed into this photograph. Click to verify.

PH-01·02 Top-down aerial view of the concentric patterns in the roof garden Timelimit Content CredentialsCreator, source and edit history are signed into this photograph. Click to verify.

PH-01·03 The strata-like stone facade with the glass loop emerging below Timelimit Content CredentialsCreator, source and edit history are signed into this photograph. Click to verify.

PH-01·04 The triangulated glazed walkway seen from below Timelimit Content CredentialsCreator, source and edit history are signed into this photograph. Click to verify.

PH-01·05 A retail floor where magenta walls open through a row of arches Timelimit Content CredentialsCreator, source and edit history are signed into this photograph. Click to verify.

PH-01·06 Lounge inside the glass loop, apartment blocks beyond the triangulated structure Timelimit Content CredentialsCreator, source and edit history are signed into this photograph. Click to verify.

PH-01·07 A cluster of white balloons hung beneath the triangulated glazing Timelimit Content CredentialsCreator, source and edit history are signed into this photograph. Click to verify.

PH-01·08 The walkway inside the glass loop and the stair linking its levels Timelimit Content CredentialsCreator, source and edit history are signed into this photograph. Click to verify.

PH-01·09 Looking up into the triangulated web of the walkway roof Timelimit Content CredentialsCreator, source and edit history are signed into this photograph. Click to verify.

PH-01·10 Two turns of the glass loop wrapping the lower facade at dusk Timelimit Content CredentialsCreator, source and edit history are signed into this photograph. Click to verify.

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