{"id":11037,"date":"2022-03-02T15:30:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T14:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/burckhardt.swiss\/project\/swiss-embassy-in-seoul\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T09:24:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T07:24:57","slug":"swiss-embassy-in-seoul","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/burckhardt.swiss\/en\/project\/swiss-embassy-in-seoul\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss embassy in Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Swiss embassy in Seoul\n <\/h1>\n

The award-winning new build for the Swiss embassy in South Korea combines traditional craftsmanship with the high standards of sophisticated architecture. The embassy building symbolises integration and openness, the native and the foreign, and the urban and diplomatic spaces. <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Client<\/strong>\n

Swiss Federal Office for Buildings and Logistics (FOBL), Bern<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Period of time<\/strong>\n

2017-2019<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Task<\/strong>\n

Architecture<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Awards<\/strong>\n

best architects 22 (2022), Korea Wood Design Award (2020), Korean Architecture Excellence Award (2019), Award of Excellence Monocle Magazin\/Soft Power Award: Best Embassy (2019)<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Photos<\/strong>\n

H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Binet, Inho Lee<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Typology<\/strong>\n

Administration<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

\n Office<\/strong>\n

\n Geneva, Schweiz<\/span>\n Lausanne, Schweiz<\/span>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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