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Tall Building: Yongsan, Seoul, South Korea (Archipelago 21)

By John de Guzman on May 15, 2009 11:00 PM | | Comments (0) | | | |
I'm way into big buildings.  They do a lot more for a city's character and future than most people recognize.  So, I think it's HAWTaction [hot ak-shuhn] to keep tabs on new projects like the Dancing Tower (Kuwait), Tall Building Update, City of Silk, Shanghai Tower, Russia Tower, Anara Tower, Okhta Tower, Nakheel Harbour and Tower, Bahrain WTC, Honeycomb Skyscraper, Burj Dubai... in Dubai... in Pictures, CCTV and TVCC Towers, Tokyo Sky Tree, Burj Dubai (Revisited), Dancing Towers, Dynamic Tower, Dubai Towers, The Lighthouse (Paris), The Lighthouse (Dubai), Antilla, London's Super Tower, Eiffel Tower, Shuffle Tower, Full Moon, Caspian Bay, Chicago Spire, Chicago's Aqua Tower, Infinity Tower, Teardrop, Christmas Tree or the Burj Dubai.

The second Tall Building post, back when we were doing one a week during a construction BONANZA?  It presented the Teardrop, a beautiful building in South Korea.  Back then, the city's plan was to use the Teardrop as the focus in a multi-acre development that would redefine the Yongsan financial district of Seoul.  The original price tag was a whopping $31 billion.  Since then, the economy has changed... and so has the plan.

Enter Daniel Libeskind, the architect responsible for the new World Trade Center in NYC.  Libeskind has just been chosen to run the restructure of the Seoul district with a new design that leaves the Teardrop forever on the sketch board.  * tear *  This is Libeskind's plan:

libeskind-seoul-584.jpgThat sucker is a $20 billion, 34-million-square-foot riverfront project... Libeskind style.

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Tall Building(s): Teardrop and Tree

By John de Guzman on February 28, 2008 6:30 AM | | Comments (3) | | | |
I'm way into big buildings.  They do a lot more for a city's character and future than most people recognize.  So, I think it's HAWTaction [hot ak-shuhn] to keep tabs on new projects like the Nakheel Harbour and Tower, Bahrain WTC, Honeycomb Skyscraper, Burj Dubai... in Dubai... in Pictures, CCTV and TVCC Towers, Tokyo Sky Tree, Burj Dubai (Revisited), Dancing Towers, Dynamic Tower, Dubai Towers, The Lighthouse (Paris), The Lighthouse (Dubai), Antilla, London's Super Tower, Eiffel Tower, Shuffle Tower, Full Moon, Caspian Bay, Chicago Spire, Chicago's Aqua Tower, Infinity Tower, Teardrop, Christmas Tree or the Burj Dubai.

As I promised, this installment of Tall Building is not in Dubai or Chicago.  In fact, I've got two of 'em for you.  Enjoy.

The Teardrop, coming 2016.  South Korea.

Korea's Yongsan.jpgSeoul is throwing $31 billion (yes, that's a lot of money) into its Yongsan business district to build... well... the future.  Essentially, in 8 years, this part of Seoul will look like a sci fi set.  Details on the complex are sparse, but I count over 20 buildings crouching under the giant teardrop that will hit 152 stories and be one of the tallest buildings in the world.  There are no names for the buildings, yet, but the big one's been nicknamed "The Teardrop," which seems appropriate.  That is some skyline.  My lordie.  Get the bulldozers over there already.

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