one of the most influ­en­tial archi­tects of our time

THE PUR­IST, WHO TRANS­FORMS CIT­IES
INTO FATA MORGANAS

Libeskind’s patience goes hand in hand with his unwaver­ing vis­ion­ary ideas. His com­pleted build­ings often are sim­il­ar to his first drafts. His works are always based on a meta­phor that refers to the idea in the con­text with the future build­ing. Through these sym­bol­ic ref­er­ences, Libe­s­kind flirts with the build­ing con­tract­ors to real­ize his vis­ion. Of course at the same time, he has the free­dom to choose his projects.

A truly extraordin­ary chal­lenge that Libe­s­kind has taken on, is the cre­ation of an entire inter­na­tion­al busi­ness dis­trict in Seoul, South Korea — the Dream Hub. The pro­ject is indis­put­ably true to its name. It presents a mul­ti­tude of meta­phors and unites tra­di­tion­al Korean beliefs with Feng Shui and futur­ist­ic city life into some­thing that essen­tially looks like a fantasy world. The Dream Hub, when it is fin­ished in 2024, will be an unpre­ced­en­ted example of sus­tain­able liv­ing in the 21st cen­tury. And a real high­light of the sky­line of Seoul.