Lotte World Tower & Mall
롯데월드타워&롯데월드몰
Songpa-gu
Address: 300 Olympic-ro, Songpa-gu, Seoul
Background
Lotte World Tower is a 123-story, 555 metres (1,821 ft) supertall skyscraper, located in Sincheon-dong, Songpa District, Seoul, South Korea. It is the sixth-tallest building in the world, the tallest in OECD countries and in South Korea, and also the first in South Korea to be over 100 stories tall. It was the fifth-tallest in the world when completed. The tower opened to the public on April 3, 2017.
A "Sky Bridge Tour" is located on the roof of Lotte World Tower at 541 m (1,775 ft), which is about the same height of One World Trade Center in New York City (1,776 feet or 541 meters), the tallest building in the United States.
From Wikipedia: Lotte World Tower, opening section, lightly shortened. CC BY-SA 4.0
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox
On these walks
- Jamsil: Tower, Lake and Olympic Park: Korea's tallest building, 555 m and 123 floors (2017), by Kohn Pedersen Fox, its taper inspired by Korean ceramics and brushes. Seoul Sky is at the top.