C3 no.443 (2026 May/June)
New Projects
Every Place Is a Place in Between
- Office Building Arquipeo _ Estúdio Gustavo Utrabo
Constructing Coexistence _ Pedro Ferreira
Radical Reinterpretation of an Expo Complex
- Charleroi Exhibition Center _ architecten Jan de Vylder Inge Vinck + AgwA
Interview _ Jan de Vylder + Herbert Wright
Coming Out of the Woodwork
Coming Out of the Woodwork _ Herbert Wright
Resonating to Reinfrastructured Landscape
- Ajung Lake Public Library _ éM Architects + Gil Architects & Engineers
The Construction of Topography and the Melody of Timber _ Namho Cho
Memory of Timber through Glass Shingles
- Historical Oberamteistrasse Museum in Reutlingen _ Wulf Architekten
Interview _ Tobias Wulf + Pedro Ferreira
Toronto’s Game-changing Mass Timber Building
- Limberlost Place _ Moriyama Teshima Architects + Acton Ostry Architects Ltd.
Interview _ Carol Phillips + Herbert Wright
Where Time Layers
in Korean Industrial Heritage
Where Time Layers in Korean Industrial Heritage _ YuMi Hyun
Industrial Structure, Recast as Public Space
- Cultural Complex Space 111CM _ hANd+ Architects
Layered Time, an Open Apparatus of Memory _ Ki Jun Kim
An Open Flow in the Residual Structure
- Be-Fore _ Isak Chung + A.CO.LAB Architects
The Découpage of Memory _ Youngtae Park
A Cultural Self-Portrait of an Industrial Heritage
- Donghae Quarry Remodeling _ KHYarchitects + Heechul Jung
A Temporal Mise en Abyme of Past and Present _ Insung Kim
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C3 is a premium architecture magazine internationally recognized for its depth of critical insight and visual excellence. As the only Korean architecture publication widely read in global cities such as New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo, C3 documents contemporary architecture through a sharp and discerning lens.
C3 no.443 (2026-May/Jun)
This issue explores two interrelated trajectories in contemporary architecture: the renewed relevance of timber, one of humanity’s oldest building materials, and the transformation of obsolete industrial structures into new cultural territories. Through material innovation and the "overwriting" of time, it examines how architecture bridges the memory of place with future-facing value.
In the face of the climate crisis, mass timber has emerged as a crucial alternative for carbon neutrality, evolving from a structural solution to a primary driver of spatial aesthetics. This issue presents three projects that demonstrate the expanded potential of timber architecture today: the Ajung Lake Public Library in Jeonju, which translates the lakeside landscape into a rhythmic timber structure; the Historical Oberamteistrasse Museum in Germany, where the memory of a medieval city is refracted through a translucent glass envelope; and Limberlost Place in Toronto, which pushes the technical boundaries of tall timber construction.
Furthermore, we present three Korean responses to the "existing" (pre-existence) within industrial sites. From 111CM in Suwon, which overlays a modern timber structure onto an old factory frame, and Be-Fore, which leaves a wastewater facility’s raw scars intact, to the Donghae Quarry Remodeling, which reconfigures massive materiality into new spatial tension—these projects explore the poetics of the palimpsest, where the present is delicately written over the traces of the past.
The issue also features the Office Building Arquipeo in São Paulo, mediating between contrasting orders, and the Charleroi Exhibition Center in Belgium, redefined through a strategy of subtraction and void. Together, these works reflect a profound contemporary commitment to the essence of place.
New Projects
This section examines how architecture engages with given conditions through distinct strategies.
Office Building Arquipeo by Estúdio Gustavo Utrabo embraces the coexistence of craft and industry without resolving their inherent tensions. In contrast, the Charleroi Exhibition Center generates new public space by stripping the building’s envelope to reveal its structural skeleton. Both projects view architecture not as a static object, but as a dynamic process of negotiating relationships.
Coming Out of the Woodwork
Advances in digital design and mass timber technologies have brought wood back to the forefront. This special section presents three projects that extend beyond questions of scale and form, demonstrating a close engagement with their respective contexts.
The Ajung Lake Public Library translates infrastructure into a civic landscape through a fluid timber structure along the waterfront. The Historical Oberamteistrasse Museum reinterprets the silhouette of a medieval building through glass shingles and a glulam structure, evoking a subtle dialogue between past and present. Finally, Limberlost Place in Toronto overcomes regulatory and technical barriers in tall timber construction, proposing new possibilities for low-carbon architecture.
Through an essay by Herbert Wright and interviews with the architects, the section offers a comprehensive view of timber’s evolving architectural language.
Where Time Layers in Korean Industrial Heritage
Obsolete industrial sites become fertile ground for new temporal layers. This section highlights three distinct strategies of adaptive reuse in Korea.
111CM juxtaposes an existing concrete frame with a new timber structure, anticipating the site’s next phase. Be-Fore preserves the exposed surfaces of a wastewater treatment facility through minimal intervention, allowing the site to articulate its own narrative. The Donghae Quarry Remodeling introduces contrasting volumes within a rugged industrial landscape, creating a spatial condition where past and present coexist in tension.
Together, these projects reveal adaptive reuse as a process of discovery—one that transforms industrial remnants into new cultural value while exposing the depth of accumulated time.
C3 is a premium architecture magazine internationally recognized for its depth of critical insight and visual excellence. As the only Korean architecture publication widely read in global cities such as New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo, C3 documents contemporary architecture through a sharp and discerning lens.
C3 no.443 (2026-May/Jun)
This issue explores two interrelated trajectories in contemporary architecture: the renewed relevance of timber, one of humanity’s oldest building materials, and the transformation of obsolete industrial structures into new cultural territories. Through material innovation and the "overwriting" of time, it examines how architecture bridges the memory of place with future-facing value.
In the face of the climate crisis, mass timber has emerged as a crucial alternative for carbon neutrality, evolving from a structural solution to a primary driver of spatial aesthetics. This issue presents three projects that demonstrate the expanded potential of timber architecture today: the Ajung Lake Public Library in Jeonju, which translates the lakeside landscape into a rhythmic timber structure; the Historical Oberamteistrasse Museum in Germany, where the memory of a medieval city is refracted through a translucent glass envelope; and Limberlost Place in Toronto, which pushes the technical boundaries of tall timber construction.
Furthermore, we present three Korean responses to the "existing" (pre-existence) within industrial sites. From 111CM in Suwon, which overlays a modern timber structure onto an old factory frame, and Be-Fore, which leaves a wastewater facility’s raw scars intact, to the Donghae Quarry Remodeling, which reconfigures massive materiality into new spatial tension—these projects explore the poetics of the palimpsest, where the present is delicately written over the traces of the past.
The issue also features the Office Building Arquipeo in São Paulo, mediating between contrasting orders, and the Charleroi Exhibition Center in Belgium, redefined through a strategy of subtraction and void. Together, these works reflect a profound contemporary commitment to the essence of place.
New Projects
This section examines how architecture engages with given conditions through distinct strategies.
Office Building Arquipeo by Estúdio Gustavo Utrabo embraces the coexistence of craft and industry without resolving their inherent tensions. In contrast, the Charleroi Exhibition Center generates new public space by stripping the building’s envelope to reveal its structural skeleton. Both projects view architecture not as a static object, but as a dynamic process of negotiating relationships.
Coming Out of the Woodwork
Advances in digital design and mass timber technologies have brought wood back to the forefront. This special section presents three projects that extend beyond questions of scale and form, demonstrating a close engagement with their respective contexts.
The Ajung Lake Public Library translates infrastructure into a civic landscape through a fluid timber structure along the waterfront. The Historical Oberamteistrasse Museum reinterprets the silhouette of a medieval building through glass shingles and a glulam structure, evoking a subtle dialogue between past and present. Finally, Limberlost Place in Toronto overcomes regulatory and technical barriers in tall timber construction, proposing new possibilities for low-carbon architecture.
Through an essay by Herbert Wright and interviews with the architects, the section offers a comprehensive view of timber’s evolving architectural language.
Where Time Layers in Korean Industrial Heritage
Obsolete industrial sites become fertile ground for new temporal layers. This section highlights three distinct strategies of adaptive reuse in Korea.
111CM juxtaposes an existing concrete frame with a new timber structure, anticipating the site’s next phase. Be-Fore preserves the exposed surfaces of a wastewater treatment facility through minimal intervention, allowing the site to articulate its own narrative. The Donghae Quarry Remodeling introduces contrasting volumes within a rugged industrial landscape, creating a spatial condition where past and present coexist in tension.
Together, these projects reveal adaptive reuse as a process of discovery—one that transforms industrial remnants into new cultural value while exposing the depth of accumulated time.
