Hyundai Forest Waterfront Tower, Seongsu Global Business Center
address
Seongsoo-dong 1-ga 683
city
Seoul, South Korea
material
steel-concrete
status
proposed
use
office
start of construction
completion
2015
• Figures
height
539.80 m
highest floor
539.80 m
height to tip
539.80 m
floors
110
floors below ground
7
gross floor area
380,016 m2
• Companies
project developer
Amco
architect
Koress
structural engineer
• General
The Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group has unveiled a blueprint for a 110-story skyscraper near the Seoul Forest, an environment-friendly park in Ttuksom. If the tower, which will house the Hyundai Automotive Group headquarters, is built, it will change the Seoul skyline.
This is' the renaissance of the Han River 'ttukseomyeok. [U-Gangbuk project] Seoul's' New Landmark 'ttukseom under one trillion people in the area around the newly born again. This area is a residential and commercial complex built ttukseom commercial paper, a project U-turn, the Han River Renaissance project, bundangseon extension, a favorable factor in a variety of places, including the opening seoulsup Yongsan in the center of regional development with Gangbuk.
In particular, high-tech residential and commercial complex has been ttukseom commercial apartment complex and town planning deuleoseol Gangnam to replace the 'new towns luxury' byeonmohal expected.
• Characteristic B
A Hyundai spokesman said the company decided to erect the building, which is tentatively named the Seoul Forest Waterfront Tower, on the site of a plant by affiliate Sampyo Remicon covering some 30,000 sq.m in Seongsu-dong. The company is in discussions with the Seoul Metropolitan government and Seongdong-gu District Office about the plan.
• Characteristic C
Besides a convention center, electronic and IT research and development centers, a hotel and office space, the building will also house a car museum and an “experience space for future cars.” About W1 trillion (US$1=W958) will be spent on construction. The company expects construction to create economic effects worth W2 trillion and 30,000 jobs.
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