It won't conpete with the Burj Dubai, but the world's 2nd tallest tower has broken ground with an expected completion date in 2015, as reported by World Architecture News.
At 640 m high, Digital Media City Landmark tower in Seoul, South Korea will be around 180m shorter than the Burj Dubai, but it is projected to be the second tallest building in the world when it completes in April 2015. Having broken ground this week, the Samoo-designed tower costing 3.3 trillion won (€1.9billion), will now rise 133 floors in height.
The Landmark is to be the visual 'light' for what could be the most technologically advanced district in the world, Digital Media Centre (DMC) which is becoming home to over 2000 companies and 121,000 staff.
Following a masterplan which completed in 2000, DMC is being constructed on the last pocket of undeveloped land in the South Korean capital, adjacent to the World Cup Stadium used in 2002. The programme is creating a city within a city where all things digital, from music to animation to computing companies, are accommodated. The Mayor of Seoul Oh Se-hoon regards the development as a place where the possibilities are 'limitless': "We believe that Digital Media City will generate the ideas via which the full potential of digital media's application to every aspect of business, personal and community life wil be realized: a crucible of innovation.
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