C3

C3 437 features Small Galleries and five distinctive new projects. The Small Galeries chapter, Anti-Transparent Architecture, spotlights four small-scale exhibition spaces tucked within dense urban settings. These compact yet resonant spaces stand on their own amid extreme spatial constraints, offering an experience of “invisible architecture” that is tactile, layered, and sensorially rich precisely because it resists transparency. Projects include Space Woon Gallery and Gguggum Art Center. In the feature five distinctive new projects: a courtyard house inspired by classical Mediterranean villas; a marine research center envisioned as a passage to the hidden world beneath the sea in Mexico; a museum that reclaims the industrial legacy of a former sugar factory in Granada; three glass pavilions rising atop preserved steel structures in Shanghai; and a business center that gently nestles into the rolling foothills of its site.

New Projects

Roman villa meets modernity
- Casa tres Patis _ Twobo Arquitectura
- Interview _ Alberto Twose, María Pancorbo, and Pablo Twose + Michele Woodger

Ecosystems reclaimed in concrete walled labyrinth
- Cortés Sea Research Center _ Tatiana Bilbao Estudio
- Interview _ Alba Cortés + Herbert Wright

Reconstructing the memory of sugarcane industry
- Pilar Factory in Motril _ Cayuelas Arquitectos + Desarrollo Urbano
- Interview _ Antonio Cayuelas Porras + SoWon Kim

Pavilions of plant life under heritage steelwork
- Expo Cultural Park Greenhouse Garden _ Delugan Meissl Associated Architects
- Interview _ Roman Delugan + Herbert Wright

Nestled low, parallel to the foot of the mountain
- Inland Ornamental Fish Business Center _ Sowayo Architects
- The difficult case of reading good architecture _ Myung Seok Hyun

The Art of Not Seeing through

Small Galleries
Anti-transparent Architecture _ Insung Kim

Reborn red ironclad amid jammed residential block
- Space Woon Gallery _ More Less Architects
- Bridging the gap between the demand and the vision _ Jinho Park

Layers of gaze between the city and rocky backdrop
- Gguggum Art Center _ SMART Architecture
- Interview _ Guncheol Kim + YuMi Hyun

Stacked and intersected on irregular plot
- Leeahn Gallery Daegu _ Piljoon Jeon
- Profane Salvation _ Insung Kim

Embracing the slope, framing the landscape
- Futura Seoul _ WGNB + PSPTVS
- Interview _ Jonghwan Baek, Wonbang Kim + YuMi Hyun