OMA - Togok Towers, Korea, Seoul, 1996

TOGOK TOWERS, KOREA, SEOUL, 1996

The skyscraper was born almost 150 years ago, when the elevator made it possible to have access to previously unimaginable levels of a building. Then steel made it possible to build higher and faster, electricity to illuminate deeper spaces and to inject conditioned air: engineers learned how to stabilize these tower-like structures. Over the past 150 years all these technologies have improved, but nothing has essentially changed.
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FACT SHEET

Project:
A study for a skyscraper complex

Client:
Samsung Corporation

Year:
1996

Status:
Schematic Design

Type:
Office

Location:
Seoul, Korea

Program:
Offices (371,600m2), retail (134,700m2), hotel (92,900m2), other (167,000m2) (total area: 766.000m2)

CREDITS

Partner:
Rem Koolhaas

Team:
Gary Bates, Floris Alkemade
with
Frans Blok, Gro Bonesmo, Xavier Calderon, Minsuk Cho, Thorsten Deckler, Sarah Dunn, Wilfried Hackenbroich, Kohei Kashimoto, Mike Magner, Oleg Nikolaeuvski, Domenico Raimondo

Structure:
Arup

Models:
Vincent de Rijk, Bert Simons