Cristiano Bianchi and Kristina Drapi? have photographed architecture across the capital of North Korea for their book Model City Pyongyang. Here they reveal six of the most interesting buildings in the city.
Model City Pyongyang contains more than 200 pictures of the North Korean capital, which is described by Bianchi as an "open-air museum of socialist architecture".
Italian architects Bianchi and Drapi? decided to photograph Pyongyang after being surprised by the variety and colour of the architecture in the city following a visit in 2015.
"Pyongyang certainly delivered and we were fascinated by three elements: the 'total planning', which was largely recognisable through the city, the surprising colourful urban environment, which was totally unexpected," Bianchi told Dezeen. "We had in our mind the greyness of soviet-era cities and what we call the perception of a 'fictional reality', which later inspired the photography concept."

To convey the feeling of fictional reality that the architects felt in Pyongyang, Bianchi and Drapi? decided to replace the sky in every picture with a simple gradient of colours.
"The photography concept aims to establish a dialogue with the DPRK's artistic representations, and at the same time wants to portray the initial, peculiar and puzzling feeling of 'fictional reality' that we had during our first visit," explained Bianchi.
"We experienced for the first time such a strikingly different cit...