By Honorary Reporter Preeti Rawat from India
Photos= Preeti Rawat

"Tall Storey: An Exhibition on High-rise Living in Korea and India" will run through Jan. 3 at Baek Nam Jun Hall of the Korean Cultural Center in New Delhi, India.

Created and organized by urban designers Yang Seung-hee and Manasvini Hariharan, "Tall Storey" chronicles housing construction in the two nations' capitals of Seoul and New Delhi. While a Hanok is clearly different from a haveli, such differentiation is more difficult with high-rise apartments in both cities. Thus the homogeneity in housing typology, which had been drastically different just a century ago, is what "Tall Storey" presents.

Visitors who enter the hall are surrounded by miniatures of varying types of homes from Korea and India. Extremely elaborate and detailed, the miniatures capture minute details of housing structures in both countries. From a thatched-roof Hanok and one shaped like the Hangeul character ㄷ to a magnificent haveli and a Lutyens bungalow, the exhibition offers much to explore.

"Tall Storey" thus displays the gradual shift from the once-distinguishable housing structures of the two nations to the nearly identical high-rise apartment complexes that adorn their two capitals in present day.

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