Also known as: incheon Twin Towers Built: 2008-2014 Cost: KRW17,000,000,000,000 Designed by: John Portman & Associates Type: Skyscraper Stories: 151 Maximum Height: 1,926 feet / 587 meters Location: Songdo International City, Incheon, South Korea
Description by Wayne Lorentz T he Asian supertower bug bit South Korea hard, and at the right time. Just as the country's economy started to heat up and the benefits of globalization began to flow back to the nation, an Atlanta developer teamed up with the Incheon city government to put this project together.
In design, it is a pair of twin towers -- shards, actually -- piercing the sky, joined in a massive base, yet linked at three points by multi-story sky bridges. Think of it as a massive tuning fork. The simple, understandable design is set apart from the city around it by a large park and concentric rings of accompanying buildings. The Incheon Tower will be approached down a wide boulevard which passes through formal parkland and trees that frame the towers' view from below.
The development will be located next to a lagoon on land reclaimed from the Yellow Sea in an area composed of other new master planned developments.
This building will have an elevator directly connecting the lobby with the restaurant on the 151st floor. That would make it the world's tallest elevator when completed.
