Dutch firm MVRDV has designed an entertainment complex featuring inverted facades and a huge blob of gold, which will be built in Seoul, South Korea, ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics (+ slideshow).
Called Paradise City, the 9,800-square-metre complex will form the centre of a new tourist district in Seoul. It will feature a nightclub and a retail building, with a public plaza sandwiched between.

MVRDV wants to create two buildings that look like siblings. The two structures, named the Nightclub and the Sandbox, are both designed to feature a "concrete casting" of neighbouring facades.
The buildings will be introverted, with very few window openings. The few openings that visitors will use will lift up like draping curtains.
The main entrance to the complex will be marked by a large golden circle, like a shadow. According to MVRDV, this will be visible to tourists flying into the nearby Incheon airport.

"The project takes two simple volumes, which create a new urban space," explained MVRDV co-founder Winy Maas. "These masses then take an imprint of the facades around the site, stretching over the two buildings."

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"The buildings are opened by lifting them like a curtain, unravelling their interior," said Maas.
"Then, to top it off is the golden spot, marking the entrance like a sunbeam, making its presence known even from ...