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31 Building

31 Building, also called Samil Building, is an office tower in Seoul that was designed by Kim Chung-up and stood as the city’s tallest building until 1979.

building

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1970

Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

Office building

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Architect

Kim Chung-up

1922-1988 · Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

Role: lead architect

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Kim Chung-up was a Korean architect and educator, widely recognized as one of the formative figures of modern architecture in South Korea.

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Kim Chung-up

studio · Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

Role: designer

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Kim Chung-up extends the corpus as a studio-level record for postwar Korean modernism across institutional, diplomatic, and urban commissions.