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The Architect · Jiho · Seoul

Jongmyo Shrine

Jongno · Royal Shrine · $

The single most powerful piece of architecture in Korea, and it's just one endless roofline. Restraint as awe.

The UNESCO royal ancestral shrine — one immensely long, austere hall on a raised stone terrace, and little else.

— Jiho, The Architect
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