Exploring Gindeung Maeul
The Disappearance of Gindeung Maeul
It was initially torn down to make way for part of the Banghwa New Town. It can be seen jutting out on the right below:
This new town plan, however - like most of them - never was carried out. Here's what the area looked like from above in early 2006, with the first phase, meant to be a part of the Banghwa New Town and carried out in 2008, marked in yellow; the area marked in red was the second phase, carried out in 2010, and intended to make way for a much larger project.
The area after the first phase of demolition:
The second phase of demolition was to make way for the Magok development, about 3 square kilometers including a lake park (since converted to "Seoul Botanic Gardens"). I looked at the the completion of the the first phase of apartment building for the Magok development back in 2014. Below is a map of the planned apartments (most of those in the bottom left corner are not yet completed (mainly due to the need to move a school (since demolished) and because there's still a small military base there. As can be seen, the red shape marks the Gindeung redevelopment,
Here are panoramic shots of the changes to the neighbourhood between 2008 and 2015:
June 2008
July 2008
The area after the first phase of demolition:
The second phase of demolition was to make way for the Magok development, about 3 square kilometers including a lake park (since converted to "Seoul Botanic Gardens"). I looked at the the completion of the the first phase of apartment building for the Magok development back in 2014. Below is a map of the planned apartments (most of those in the bottom left corner are not yet completed (mainly due to the need to move a school (since demolished) and because there's still a small military base there. As can be seen, the red shape marks the Gindeung redevelopment,
Here are panoramic shots of the changes to the neighbourhood between 2008 and 2015:
June 2008
July 2008
August 2008
November 2008.
January 2010
October 2011
May 2012
February 2013
May 2013
August 2013
November 2013
May 2014
September 2014
October 2014
January 2015
March 2015
July 2015
(From here.)
Here are views from above of Gindeung Maeul and Magok in early 2008 and mid 2015:
That's quite the change from mid-2008:
Here are the schematics and plans for the Magok Hillstate Apartments:
(From here.)
A view from the side:
Needless to say, the area has changed quite a bit.
These panoramic shots are fascinating. How were they taken?
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Glad you liked them. I found a building with a 6th floor overlooking the site that I could reach and then stitched the photos (often 10 or so, 5 upper, 5 lower) together with PTGui. A somewhat faster (and smaller-scale) redevelopment with more regular photos can be found here. Sometimes for political or financial reasons sites can sit empty for quite some time - some of them are described and photographed here.
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