The South Korean capital of Seoul will soon get a massive urban garden that rivalsthe High Line, New York City's famed elevated park.
Called the Skygarden, the project will turn an abandoned overpass into a lush public park with over 24,000 plants. In 2015, the Dutch architecture firm MRVDVwon a competition launched by the city to design it. Construction of the estimated $33 million garden (funded by the local government) started a year later.
MRVDV spokesperson Isabel Pagel now tells Business Insider that the Skygarden is nearly complete, and will open on May 20, 2017.
Check out what it will look like below.
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Seoul's Skygarden will wind around buildings and stretch 3,000 feet long in the city center.
The garden will go up on a portion of an abandoned highway built in the 1970s. In 2006, the city shut it down due to concerns about its structural integrity.
Visitors will be able to access the 55-foot-high park by stairs at specific points.
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