Joyful Church chose Beck to create a new facility for the church's growing, vibrant worship and education programs on Sundays and for the church's many social welfare ministries during the week.  The church's vision was to have a design that expressed a strong symbolic Christian message, but that also used traditional Korean symbols in a fusion of architecture, faith and culture.  The location was a 10 acre site in a new town development area of Pohang.  This site had many development challenges included steep, wooded hillsides and strict zoning limitations. 

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Architects: The Beck Group

Location: Pohang-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea

Area: 35600.0 m2

Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Seung-Hoon Yum

Design Architect: Beck Architecture

Llc: Rick del Monte, Jay Chung, Ik Joo Lee, Yoo Sook Lee, Yoon Kang, Michael Kiser, Tom Greenwood

Architect Of Record: Posco Architects

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Joyful Church chose Beck to create a new facility for the church's growing, vibrant worship and education programs on Sundays and for the church's many social welfare ministries during the week.  The church's vision was to have a design that expressed a strong symbolic Christian message, but that also used traditional Korean symbols in a fusion of architecture, faith and culture.  The location was ...