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Auguste Rodin would have been proud. Housed in a 12,500-sq.-ft. free-form glass pavilion in Seoul, Korea and gracefully illuminated by lighting designers Thomas Thompson, Christine Sciulli, Jonathan Plumpton and Russ Burns of Thompson + Sears, his sculptures have never exuded so much power. According to one IALD judge, the lighting design of the Rodin Museum Pavilion dramatizes "the contrast between the mass of the Rodin sculptures and the transparent quality of the glass," creating an effect that is "simply beautiful."
Standing at the edge of Samsung's three-block complex (opposite), the pavilion's glowing volumes anchor and illuminate the plaza in the evening. The...