SEOULLO PERFORMANCE

摘要

In 2014, Seoul's mayor, Park Won-soon, staged a press conference on the High Line to announce that the South Korean capital would build its own version of Manhattan's elevated park, repurposing a motorway viaduct into a landscaped pedestrian route. Less than three years, an international competition and £40 million later, Seoullo 7017 opened in central Seoul near the city's main railway station. Its awkward four-digit appellation refers to the date the original motorway was built (1970) and the year of its skygarden transformation (2017), and is the first hint that the project lacks the High Line's polish. But what's most interesting, although not immediately evident when visiting, is that Seoullo is deliberately not precious.