Lotte World Tower
| Lotte World Premium Tower | |
|---|---|
| Basic data | |
| Place: |
Seoul , South Korea
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| Construction time : | 2009-2016 |
| Opening: | 3rd April 2017 |
| Status : | completed |
| Architectural style : | Postmodern |
| Architect : | Kohn Pedersen Fox |
| Use / legal | |
| Usage : | Offices, hotel, shopping mall |
| Apartments : | 260 hotel suites |
| Owner : | Lotte Group |
| Technical specifications | |
| Height : | 555 m |
| Height to the top: | 555 m |
| Top floor: | 497 m |
| Rank (height) : | 5th place (world) |
| Floors : | 123 |
| Elevators : | 58 |
| Usable area : | 304,000 m² |
| Building material : | Structure: steel , reinforced concrete ; Facade: glass |
The Lotte World Premium Tower (also just Lotte World Tower , Korean 롯데 월드 타워 ) is a skyscraper in Seoul , the capital of South Korea , which was completed in 2016 . It was officially opened on April 3, 2017.
The building is located in the Jamsil-dong district . It is part of the Lotte World complex. With a height of 555 m, at the time of opening it is the tallest skyscraper in South Korea , the fifth tallest in Asia and the world .
planning
With a height of 555 meters, the tower is the tallest building in the country and one of the tallest in the world. On a usable area of around 304,000 square meters, which is spread over 123 floors above ground, there are apartments, hotel rooms and offices as well as a viewing platform on the six top floors, which is accessible for a fee. The glass floor at the two outer tips is only 45 mm thick, but can carry up to 200 people with an average body weight of 75 kg each or over 500 kg per square meter. It was recognized by Guinness World Records as the tallest glass-bottom observation deck in the world on January 23, 2017. A double-deck elevator travels from the ground floor to the 118th floor at a speed of 600 meters per minute.
The skyscraper has a square floor plan, towards the top the building becomes somewhat narrower in a rounded shape. The top floor is about 497 meters high, with the roof a little above it. The upper floors are also open to the public. A slightly convex steel construction clad with glass, split vertically in two halves, envelops the outer walls and tapers above the roof plateau up to the final height of 555 meters. The American architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox was responsible for the planning of the skyscraper and has already built several skyscrapers in Asia and North America.
The plans for the high-rise go back to 2005. Excavation on the site not far from downtown Seoul began in 2009, but construction work could not begin until the beginning of 2012 for economic reasons and because of resistance from parts of the population and some authorities.
The building is not identical to the Busan Lotte World Tower construction project in Busan , South Korea , which, at 510 meters high, is a project of similar size.
construction
The construction work did not begin until the beginning of 2012 when the first concreting was carried out on the foundation. The core of the building, made of reinforced concrete , reached street level in June 2012. Several larger construction cranes were erected in the spring.
The top of the 123 floors was completed on December 22, 2015. At the end of 2015, on the occasion of the turn of the year, the facade illuminated with LED pixels with the vertical lettering 2016 was tested.
Completion took place according to plan in March 2016. The opening was on April 3, 2017, the 50th birthday of Lotte Confectionery Co., Ltd.
Lotte Signiel Residences
The 42nd to 71st floors consist of apartments, the Lotte Signiel Residences . With a square meter price of around 23 million won , these are considered to be the most expensive in Korea.
Signiel Seoul Hotel
The 76th to 100th floors are occupied by the luxury hotel Signiel Seoul, the first locally run six-star hotel in the country, with a total of 235 rooms. Room prices range from 650,000 won per night in the lower range to 24 million won per night on the 99th and 100th floors. The hotel restaurant on the 81st floor is managed by Yannick Alléno , who has been awarded three Michelin stars .
Sky bridge
In 2020 the eleven-meter-long sky bridge opened between the two upper towers.
Floors
| floor | use |
|---|---|
| 117-123 | Viewing platform |
| 105-114 | offices |
| 76-101 | Lotte Hotel |
| 42-71 | Apartments |
| 14-38 | Prime offices |
| 1-12 | Podium |
| B1-B6 | underground car park |
Awards
- 2017: Emporis Skyscraper Award
Trivia
In the park behind the Lotte World Tower, there is a detailed bronze copy of the Goethe monument from the Berlin zoo . The Lotte Group was named after the main character “Lotte” (Charlotte) in the novel Die Leiden des Junge Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe from 1774, which the company founder Shin Kyuk-ho had read enthusiastically in 1941 at the age of 19.
Picture gallery
Working in October 2011
The tower from below in October 2013
Construction status in December 2013
The final height was almost reached in September 2015
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See also
Web links
- Further information ( memento of December 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at the CTBUH
- Information and graphical representation at SkyscraperPage
- Visualization of the building
- Lotte World Tower skyscraper.blog
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inside Lotte World Tower. In: Korea Joongang Daily , April 3, 2017
- ↑ The Happy New Year can come! Picture "2016" at Lotte World Premium Tower, Seoul. In: Kronenzeitung (print), December 31, 2015, p. 14.
- ^ A lavish Lotte residence - if you can afford it. In: Korea Joongang Daily , March 13, 2017
- ↑ In Eun-byel: Walking above Seoul. Sky Bridge Tour to open at top of Lotte World Tower. In: The Korea Herald . July 21, 2020, accessed on July 21, 2020 .
Coordinates: 37 ° 30 '44 " N , 127 ° 6' 9.7" E