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Marina City 21 & Suyong Bay Tower Pusan, Korea |
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The
102-story Daewoo Tower is located on a waterfront site in Pusan, Korea.
It is part of the larger master plan development which will be built on
Landfill in Suyoung Bay and sits apart from the traditional downtown on
what was previously the resort coast. The tower and podium include
office, hotel, serviced apartments, retail, performing arts center,
museum, ballroom and convention center uses. The great height and size of this building led to our decision to design a form of monolithic simplicity, as we had done with the World Financial Centre in Shanghai. The abstract form of the building was in part derived from visual influences found in Korean culture as well as from the physical characteristics of the specific site. Our examination of many artefacts of Korean culture revealed a sensibility to the dialogue between man and nature as an elegantly curving line. Pottery, sculpture, painting, costume and architecture are linked by this formal motif. We strove to continue this tradition. Located on the southern tip of the Korean peninsula, on land adjacent to the yachting course of the 1988 Olympic Games, the site faces south to the sea and north to the mountains. The north-south axis of the site is further strengthened by its alignment with a major transportation causeway crossing the bay. The building’s form was created primarily by the intersection of an extended iris-shaped shaft with asymmetrically curving planes. The resulting tower is shaped in the form of a giant wing or sail. The dominant longitudinal axis of this form implies a connection between the sea and the mountains. Functionally, the building’s larger lower levels provide flexible office space, while the smaller upper floors, hollowed by a north-facing atrium, create efficient hotel use. This form is further augmented by the addition of a heavy stone base which drops into a surrounding pool (symbolic of Korea’s position as a peninsula). The tower is terminated by a large glass-enclosed void (for gallery and observation functions). Clustered at the tower’s base are surrounding structures housing a concert hall, retail space and a major museum.
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