Ambitious Busan Opera House proposal draws inspiration from Korean stone art

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Inside the Opera Theater (image by Lacoste Stevenson)

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Open Suseok resembles an alien spaceship or an enormous pebble perched at the end of the p...

The main public entrance opens and lowers down like a giant gangway, giving the arriving s...

The rear facade opens upwards for amphitheater stage events (image by Lacoste Stevenson)

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Open Suseok site plan (image by Lacoste Stevenson)

Amphitheatre stage event can accommodate 20,000 viewers (image by Lacoste Stevenson)

A diagram of the Busan Opera House closed (image by Lacoste Stevenson)

A diagram of the Busan Opera House with its entrance open (image by Lacoste Stevenson)

A diagram of the Busan Opera House with both its entrance and amphitheater open (image by ...

The Busan Opera House's proposed Media Screen (image by Lacoste Stevenson)

Article Summary

This futuristic design by Australian architects Lacoste+Stevenson was submitted for the Busan Opera House competition. Resembling an enormous pebble perched at the end of the promenade (or an alien spaceship), the design dubbed "Open Suseok" hopes to resonate with the Korean tradition by drawing inspiration from local stone art (or Suseok).

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