F1963
Former steel-wire factory turned arts complex, with a bamboo forest planted on its old shipping yard.
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About this audio guide
This guide to F1963 in Busan starts on a yard that once held scrap steel wire and dead cranes, now grown over into a bamboo forest. It traces the site's forty-five years as one of Busan's biggest wire factories, opened by Kiswire in nineteen sixty-three and shut down in two thousand eight, and the decision to keep its bruises rather than demolish it when Busan needed a Biennale venue. You'll hear how architect Jo Byeong-su tore the roof off the largest hall and salvaged its iron plates for benches, and why someone chose bamboo, of all plants, for the old shipping yard outside. Walk the Sori Trail slowly and listen for the stalks clicking against each other in the wind.
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