All Blog Posts Tagged 'South' (7)

Kaká - Brazil

Of all the 2010 World Cup art out there, this series by Met Member Charis Tsevis is the creme of the crop.



"This is an experimental personal project inspired by the great African pattern heritage and the contemporary football culture, he says. "I am trying to…

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As the 2010 FIFA World Cup steadily approaches, TIME explains to us how the beautiful game is deeply woven into the culture and politics of South Africa.



What Soccer Means to South…

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian covers the November 2009 issue of FHM South Africa. The voluptuous model almost convinces us that summer hasn't ended through these photos, where she is seen wearing multiple bikinis while posing…

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Global architecture firm Populous won the competition to create the main stadium for the 17th Asian games in Incheon, South Korea. The 70,000 seat, $400 million multipurpose stadium will be designed to be reconfigured into a single sided grandstand of 30,000-seats, within a park, after the Asian games. It will be located between Incheon International Airport and Seoul,…

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Four architecture offices, BIG (Copenhagen), INABA (Los Angeles), MAD (Beijing), and Mass Studies (Seoul) have proposed an urban plan for Ansan, South Korea which will be exhibited at the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art in Ansan City beginning 17 December 2008.



The joint project by the four firms uses versatile architectural forms that change in size and use.… Continue

No, these buildings are not happy to see you. MVDRV architects recently won the Gwanggyo City Centre Competition with their design of this incredible new city just south of Seoul, South Korea. The proposed complex is a fully self-sufficient city for up to 77,000 inhabitants. Similar nodes, common in South Korea, concentrate residences, work and play all in one… Continue

A blind five-year-old pianist from South Korea has stunned the music world after a video of her performance received more than 27million hits. Yoo Ye-eun, who was born blind and adopted in 2002, has never had a formal piano lesson but can play any song after just one… Continue