Located in the Korean city of Gwangju, long renown as a place of culture and educational excellence, the project combines all aspects of creativity, whether written, spoken, performed or preserved in digital formats.

It recognizes - and celebrates - the fact that to prosper and remain relevant in the age of digitalization, libraries have to fully embrace both the physical and the virtual.

the value of the library in the modern society, with bearing questions like: How should books and written information in this age exist together with digitized information?

What will be the trend in the future and what would be our spatial response to this?

• A Place of social and urban solidarity
• A Place of information and knowledge
• A place of people and books
• New cityscape that encompasses past and future