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| Digital Media City Landmark Building | |
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디지털 미디어 시티 랜드마크 빌딩 | |
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| General information | |
| Status | On hold |
| Type | Office and residential spaces, hotels, an observatory, a department store, shopping malls, a convention center, a large-scale aquarium, restaurants |
| Location | Digital Media City, Seoul, South Korea |
| Coordinates | 37°34′28.47″N 126°53′18.31″E / 37.5745750°N 126.8884194°E |
| Construction started | 2009 |
| Cost | US$2.9 billion (3.3 trillion won) |
| Height | |
| Antenna spire | 640.4 m (2,101 ft)[1] |
| Roof | 540 m (1,772 ft) |
| Top floor | 536 m (1,759 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 133[2] |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Samoo |
| Structural engineer | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill |
| Main contractor | Samsung C&T, Daewoo[2] |
The Digital Media City Landmark Building (Korean: 디지털 미디어 시티 랜드마크 빌딩) or DMC Landmark Building, also known as Seoul Lite or Light Tower, was a 133-floor, 640 m (2,100 ft) supertall skyscraper proposed for construction in Digital Media City, Seoul, South Korea. It was slated to become the third-tallest building in the world when completed, after Burj Khalifa and Pingan International Finance Centre. It would have been the tallest building in Korea. Construction broke ground on 16 October 2009, and was scheduled to be completed and ready for occupancy by April 2015.[3] It was to be built with the country's own capital and technology at an estimated cost of 3.3 trillion won (US$2.9 billion).[4]
The design and engineering of the DMC Landmark Building was performed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.[5] The local architect of record was Samoo. The building was to house an observation deck on 133rd floor at 540 m (1,772 ft), from which visitors will be able to see the entire metropolis of Seoul and as far as Gaeseong, North Korea.[6] It would have been the tallest observation deck in the world, higher than those of Burj Khalifa on the 124th floor at 440 m (1,444 ft) and the 100th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center at 474 m (1,555 ft). Six through eight-star hotels would have been located on the 108th-130th floors, surpassing the Park Hyatt Hotel (79th-93rd floors) in the Shanghai World Financial Center, as the highest hotel rooms in the world.
All functions of a futuristic, 21st century city were to be incorporated into the building, including the most high-tech office and residential spaces, a department store, luxury shopping malls, a large convention center, the world's largest interactive aquarium, international restaurants and facilities for media, culture and exhibitions.[7] The landmark building was backed by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and was being constructed at the fastest speed among major skyscraper projects by Samsung C&T.[8]
It was cancelled for budgetary reasons and the collapse of South Korean property market bubble in 2012.[9]
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