More than 200 architects, designers, artists, engineers, university students and researchers from all over the world sent their “architectural and geopolitical” ideas and designs to Domus regarding the completion and functional redefinition of the huge abandoned concrete pyramid of the Ryugyong Hotel at Pyongyang, capital of North Korea (see Domus 882 June 2005).

The call for ideas launched by Domus in collaboration with the Department of Architecture and Society at the Politecnico in Milan, generated heterogeneous and radical solutions presented using a wide range of techniques (video, drawing, writing, collage, photomontage and art installation). As from the end of December, a virtual gallery of designs for the Ryugyong Hotel will appear on www.domusweb.it
In the January issue of Domus a selection of the most interesting proposals will be published. Over the course of the next year, the projects will then be shown in an itinerant exhibition.

To visit the site for the call for ideas:
http://www.domusweb.it/Domus/specials/ryugyong

List of participants:
Amsterdam
Bert de Muynck, Joris de Vries, Mónica Carriço/RE-Action (Ofri Earon, Thomas Krarup)/Satyendra Pakhalé/Meta Haven
Arcosanti
Team Arco (Haley Jovi Cazarini Bueno, Young Soo Kim, Tania Garbe, Poul Howard Anderson, Joseph Bartolomew Murray) 
Assisi (Perugia)
Godfrey Grima
Aversa (Caserta)
Vargas Associati (Davide Vargas, Luciano Palmiero. Gruppo di lavoro/Work group: Angela Pellecchia, Paolo Russo, Roberta Sannino,con la consulenza di/consultation of Riccardo Dalisi )
Beirut
dblu (Rana Haddad, Pierre Hage-Boutros)/Pascal Hachem
Bellante (Teramo)
Milo Marrancone
Berlin
Christian Kennerknecht/Meuser Architekten (Philipp and Natascha Meuser)/Dmitry Sukhin/v--lab (Dominik Busch, Karin Ocker)/Rafal Wamka
Biella
Andrea Paoletti e Cittadellarte
Bucharest
Stefan Davidovici, Irina Suteu
Cagliari
Paolo Assiero Brà, Simone Corda, Enrico Crobu, Massimo Faiferri, Paulina Herrera Letelier, Michele Mameli, Marcello Piga, Aldo Vanini
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Sergio Araya, Onur Juce Gun
Cantù (Como)
Stefano Miano
Castelgrande (Potenza)
Annibale Di Muro
Castiglione Cosentino (Cosenza)
Paolo Marsico
Cerratina di Pianella (Pescara)
Francesco Belcanto
Chiasso
Gideon Hartmann
Chicago
John Jourden/.wAS (Antonio Petrov)
Copenhagen
Ann Christiansen
Darmstadt
Martin Kim
Delft
Clarence Chin Choon Siong, Hao Chen, Tsung-Si Chen
Dianella
Ryoko Watanabe, Kylene Tan
Fonte (Treviso)
Michela Zanandrea
Fratta Minore (Napoli)
Maurizio Barbato
Genova
Paolo Andrea Raffetto, Valentina Solera
Gliwice
Tomasz Bradecki
Graz
Andreas Gruber, Richard Dank
Helsinki
Tommy Kaj Lindgren
Houten
CADR (Martine Verwoerd, Jurrien Vogelsang, Maryse de Bruin, Sander de Bruin)
Istanbul
Hakan Tuzun Sengun
Kansas City
Roque Gagliano Molla, Raquel Peres
Lisboa
EXiT (Francesco Loschi, Giuseppe Pagano, Paolo Panetto)
London
Daniel Baerlecken, Judith Reitz/Shumon Basar, Markus Miessen/Jamie Baxter/Jang Byul/Jen Kui Choi/Peter Lee/Frank Loehner, Holm Bethdge/Alexandros Marcoulides/John McCulley/Sabine Rosenkranz/Colette Sheddick/Kalle Söderman/Marco Vanucci/Walters and Cohen/Terry Whitehead/Kim Wooyoung
Los Angeles
An Hojung
Macerata
Emanuele Zippilli
Milano
Davide Angeli/Anna Barbara, Carolina Rapetti, Beatriz Revilla Perez/Giovanni Brioschi/Giulio Ceppi-Total Tool (Ermes Invernizzi, Masaru Ishikawa, Ivette Pèrez d’Alba)/Marco Della Torre, Emilio Fantin, Alex Ho/Annalisa Fermo/Francesco Filippi/Francesco Garutti/Paolo Golinelli/Lefloft/Nunc/Iolanda Pensa, Valerio Berruti, Iman Issa, Brian Wood/Matteo Poli/Anja Visini, Alessandro Vidoni
Modena
HVA, Hermanitos Verdes Architetti
Montevarchi (Firenze)
Sprawltown Studio (Richard Ingersoll, Maurizio Bonizzi, Nicola Jannucci)
Montréal
Lawrence Bird, Sergio Clavijo
Napoli
Cherubino Gambardella (con/with Lorenzo Capobianco, Simona Ottieri, Mario Russo, Gaetano Iovinella, Fabio Baratto)
New York
Rosario D’Urso con/with Archi(te)nsions (Alessandro Orsini, Manuela Priori)/Lok Jansen-Imagineering & Casey Mack-Popular Architecture/Mera Design (Aleksandr Mergold)/PLYM Studio (Francesco Bruni, Sergio Mannino, Federica Vannucchi)
Oslo
Vilhelm Christensen, Daniel Ferdman, Franco Ghilardi, Tim Prins, Mirko Stopar (Ghilardi+Hellsten Architects)
Oostende
Sofie Bullynck, Rodrigo Burgos
Padova
Renato Busata/Andrea Sora, Leonardo Zuccaro
Paju
Jae Kyung Kim
Pescara
Giuseppe Francavilla, Luciana Mastrolonardo Pyongyang
Myong Choljun/Jong Joyong/Pak Myok/Kim Songil/Pak Thaerim/Sok Wang
Ravenna
Claudio Notturni/Emanuele Piaia
Rheda-Wiedenbrück
Jan Marius Geller
Rende (Cosenza)
Tommaso Muto
Roccapiemonte (Salerno)
Vincenzo Orgitano
Roma
Aldo Canepone (with Eugenio Iannetti, Alessia Imperi, Francesca Ingrao, Matteo Lanfredini, Rosario Madia, Marco Marrocchi, Marco Tripodi)/Elisa Fuksas/Marco Provinciali/Francesca Recchia Rotterdam
Gideon Boie, Kristien Vanmerhaeghe
Salerno
Carlo Cuomo
San Diego
Jonathan Golli
Sarezzo (Brescia)
Marco Alesci
Seattle
Christopher Gerrick
Stockholm
Tobias Bernstrup/Konrad Milton
Stuttgart
igmade (Iassen Markov, Daniel Moch, Daniel Hundsdörfer, Gerd de Brüyn, Stephan Trüby)
Terni
Alessio Patalocco
Tokyo
Hans Park, David Mervart
Torino
Guido Anselmi Workshop, Cesare Griffa/Il Pensatoio (Mariangela Carra Linguerri, Donata Jaretti, Sergio Jaretti, Giovanna Patetta Rotta, Chiara Penco) Trieste
Giovanni Cagnato/Barbara Fornasir, Franca Maria Bello
Tuscanica (Treviso)
Pamela Ferri
Venezia
Worldmachinery (Michele Brunello, Alessandro Grande, Elena Solone)
Sorgente d’Amore
Veroli (Frosinone)
Damag_Experience (Dario Celanio, Maurizio Celli, Giansandro Di Iorio)
Wien
ps.a (Lilli Pschill, Ali Seghatoleslami)
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