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  2. Housing in South Korea - Wikipedia

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    Housing in South Korea includes detached houses, apartment (unit of apartment, row houses, and private houses), studio apartments, and dormitories in non-residential buildings such as shopping malls and factories. While the occupancy rate of apartment houses is steadily rising, the occupancy rate of detached houses is steadily falling. [1]

  3. Hanok - Wikipedia

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    The specific word "hanok" appeared in the Samsung Korean dictionary in 1975, where it was defined as an antonym of "western house" and as a term meaning Joseon house (Korean-style house). After the 1970s, with urban development, many apartments and terraced houses were built in South Korea, and many hanok were demolished everywhere.

  4. Kōryō, Nara - Wikipedia

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    Kōryō is located in the flatlands of northeast Nara Prefecture in the Nara Basin.The town has many rivers, including the Takada River and Katsuragi River, which flow north, and the Soga River, which runs along the eastern edge of the town.

  5. Kingo Houses - Wikipedia

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    Kingo Houses is a housing development designed by architect Jørn Utzon in Helsingør, Denmark. The development consists of 60 L-shaped houses based upon the design of traditional Danish farmhouses with central courtyards and those of Chinese and Islamic dwellings.

  6. Blue House - Wikipedia

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    Due to the security of the Blue House, only those who applied to visit the Blue House are allowed to watch the commentary. In the wake of the January 21 incident, the north of Chilgung Palace was demolished to create a road; it was a habitual traffic accident area, but it was also aimed at strengthening the security of the Blue House.

  7. Machiya - Wikipedia

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    The Tōmatsu house from Funairi-chō, Nagoya, is an example of a large machiya. Machiya façade in Kyoto Old fabric shop in Nara. Machiya (町屋/町家) are traditional wooden townhouses found throughout Japan and typified in the historical capital of Kyoto.

  8. Fukuoka Domain - Wikipedia

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    In 1600, Kobayakawa Hideaki, who had previously controlled a portion of Chikuzen, was relocated to the Okayama Domain in Bizen Province as a reward for his successes in the Battle of Sekigahara, and Kuroda Nagamasa, the ruler of the Nakatsu Domain in Buzen Province, was likewise granted a substantial increase to over 523,000 koku in Chikuzen Province.

  9. Courtyard house - Wikipedia

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    Plan of a Roman courtyard house Courtyard houses in Beijing. The courtyard house makes its first appearance in Mesopatamian sites such as Tell Chuera in present-day Syria ca. 6500 BC, and in the central Jordan Valley on the northern bank of the Yarmouk River, ca. 6400–6000 BC (calibrated), in the Neolithic Yarmukian site at Sha'ar HaGolan, giving the site a special significance in ...