The Boeing 747 Restaurant of South Korea

Wed, Apr 29, 2009

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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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Karl Fabricius - who has written 212 posts on Environmental Graffiti.

Karl was raised in Wales and currently lives in Bristol, though his family tree branches to both sides of the Atlantic. Besides holding an English MA, he’s made a documentary on grassroots boxing, played drums in punk rock bands, and traveled some lush parts of the globe. Back from copywriting in Dubai’s desert, he’s thirsty to get scribbling about things worth scribbling about – especially the environment.

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Philip Siegfried Says:
April 29th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
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.
Katie Graczyk Says:
May 24th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Wow! What a great idea! Maybe it will start a trend in unique ways to recycle in architecture?
Tracey Shrier Says:
June 11th, 2009 at 12:37 am
There already is a trend with aircraft architecture. In this blog on http://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

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