The Boeing 747 Restaurant of South Korea

3 years ago Art & Design

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Repurposing old buildings is quite the thing to do these days, but it's not a scratch on applying such recycling principles to giant-sized vehicles. A Boeing 747, the first jumbo jet to be flown commercially, sits in South Korea – a decommissioned airliner that found a new lease of life converted into a restaurant.

It looks a little out of place stuck in the middle of the city, looming over the highway yet dwarfed by surrounding apartments, but it casts even more of a forlorn figure when you find out it has been abandoned for the second time and is no longer in use as an eatery either. Crying shame; we'd have definitely sampled the aeronautically themed ambience.

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Written by: Karl Fabricius

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Tracey Shrier says

Jun 11th, 2009 at 12am
There already is a trend with aircraft architecture. In this blog on www.Greenwala.com, a lady talks about how some planes have been saved the the graveyard that awaits them in Tucson, AZ and have turned them into beautiful homes or hotel rooms or have just taken pieces to make fancy space age furniture with it. http://tinyurl.com/kw2534

Katie Graczyk says

May 24th, 2009 at 12am
Wow! What a great idea! Maybe it will start a trend in unique ways to recycle in architecture?

Philip Siegfried says

Apr 30th, 2009 at 12am
This can't be the first 747 to enter commercial service. The first one to enter commercial service was "Clipper Victor", which was later destroyed in Tenerife.