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Mikve Rajel, with subdued lighting and expanses of wood and marble lining the communal areas, gives the ritual bath a setting not unlike a modern spa

The folded wooden envelope provides a place for locals to meet, creating a transitional social zone between the intimate spaces of the interior and the urban space of the waterfront

Prodded by President Trump, the cold war between North and South Korea – which never formally declared a truce – threatens to return to boiling point, with potentially world-ending consequences. What solutions can architecture offer to the crisis? This is of course a ludicrous question; nevertheless, architectural research group Arch…

The Japanese onsen is an ancient import arriving, it is theorised, with Buddhism, for which it served as a ritual bath. In Japan, these foreign ideas fell on fertile, volcanic ground. The preponderance of natural hot springs created a nation of bath addicts, and the onsen continues to be enormously…

Since time immemorial, and from continent to continent, saunas or bathhouses have played a community role, stripping their users of social distinctions and affording a rich seam for architects

With one foot in South Korea and the other in New York, the work of Seung Teak Lee and Mi Jung Lim is a hybridisation of East and West

Rather than vying for prominence, two buildings for a residential college at Daejeon University in central South Korea by Iroje architects and Mass Studies manage to deftly complement each other

Separating North and South Korea, the curious no man’s land of the Demilitarised Zone has become a political theme park

Going beyond military threat, famine and dictatorship discussions, two new books give a more multi-faceted sense of North Korea

The threat of imminent attack haunts CoRe Architects’ conversion of a military bunker into an arts and cultural centre