KT Landmark Tower / Studio Daniel Liebeskind + G.Lab* by Gansam Architects & Partners
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Architect: Daniel Libeskind + G.Lab* by Gansam Architects & Partners
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Client: KT Corporation
Project architect: Carla Swickerath (Studio Daniel Libeskind) + Chuloh Jung (G.Lab* by Gansam Architects & Partners)
Design team: Seungki Min, Byungdon Yoo, Roy Oei (Studio Daniel Libeskind) + Shinhui Won, Wookjin Chung, Sangsu Park, Sang-Hyun Son, Inkyung Han, Taewook Kang, Namhui Kim, Shinkyung Jo (G.Lab* by Gansam Architects & Partners)
Project area: 169,784 sqm
Competition Year: 2010
design diagrams
Concept
1. Landmark
Door to symbolize the vision of KT town as landmark
2. Open-Flow
Door to open to the public
Door to welcome the visitation through the city flow
perspective
3. Intercommunication
Door to share & communicate with customers
4. History
Door to rehabilitate the history & culture of Sejong-Ro
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The design reflects the vision of KT as a landmark tower and the generous spirit of the KT employees, Customers, and Visitors who serve this place. From the exterior, the form clearly emphasizes symbolism of KT by introducing elements for art, culture, nature, environment, and technology. The recognition of the towers and it’s facade creates a unique transition between the US Embassy and Kyobo with a dynamic gesture of multiple towers. The spatial flow expands public open space and connection from Gwanghwamoon plaza to Joonghak stream and provides an organic & 3 dimensional linkage from Gwanghwamoon plaza to Cheongjin tower through KT plaza, atrium, and deck. Eventually, the towers will be a center, in which will heighten the spiritual spot of KT technology, and provide awareness of the history & culture of Sejong-Ro to public.
Program & Space Strategy
Historical & Cultural Axis / Nat’l Symbolic Street : By aligning the façade with US Embassy and Kyobo tower adjacent, KT tower creates not only strong recognition but also buffer space.
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Active Pedestrian Oriented Street: By minimizing vehicle circulation, site will be surrounded by nature friendly and pedestrian oriented streets with commercial, art and cultural facilities.
first floor plan
sections
Expansion of Public Space and Connection to Green Areas : With KT plaza in front and underground passageway, provide public corridor to Cheongjin site through atrium and raised decking.
Diverse Views & View Corridors: With fragmented massing, various view corridors can be achieved on different levels to diverse directions.
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- site plan
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- first basement plan
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- second basement plan
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- first floor plan
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- second floor plan
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- typical floor plan
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Where would we be without Libes signature cross hatch and trapezoidal spaces? Rest assured.
this is great, Libeskind is KING
This is very nice, well-done…
im glad libeskind was able to suppress his tendencies to apply those now trademark stylistic slashes to the point where they actually express a unique spatial condition within the building
What a big pile of poop! What economic formula would cause a developer to higher this graphic artist pretending to be an architect to design a building with s&m strappings all over it like Van Halen’s guitar and think that is a good thing for occupants? Open wide and say ‘ah’ so SDL can spray some cheeze whiz in! Where’s superman to push one of the crystals and get a video from Cryptonite?
If you are going to be such a nasty critic… have the stones to identify yourself and your work.
I agree 100%
I’m not and architect, just a big fan…. why are so many fantastic buildings being build everywhere but the United States of America?
Com’on people…. get with it.
From my experience as an architect working in Melbourne Australia this style of architecture is avoided in most western cities because of cost. As western cities have a ‘western’ identity most developers arent looking for wow architecture, but buildings that sit within their context (speeds up planning approval) and maximises floor effeciency to ensure maximum profit for the developer (this ensures the architect continuing work). Many Asian cities are engaging ‘starchitects’ to create a western style building with a wow factor as many asians are seeking more of a ‘western’ lifestyle
You are right, Andy. But how come when Asians adopt “western” culture they always scrape the bottom of the barrel taking on board junk like gas-guzzling cars, McDonald’s hamburgers or Daniel Libeskind’s designs. These are the things that show the worst of western culture. Indeed in Libeskind’s case it is not even culture, but the absence of taste.
Wow… this is so not a fantastic building. A symbol of Libeskind’s complete transformation into corporate architecture. His work is a complete one-liner that at one point made interesting ideas and spaces (Jewish Museum Berlin), but has now become mass-produced as a signature stamp that lacks any true meaning, relation to program, or relation to site.
The partnership with G-Lab has now brought it full-circle. This is full on bland, unoriginal corporate architecture dressed in a fancy skin that has gotten the oohhs and aahs above. Its like, lets have gansam make these typical towers, then have Libeskind wrap the lobby spaces with his angles. There is no merit to this project what-so-ever and hopefully will not be built.
I agree. It’s all just fancy computer rendering with zero intellectual underpinning. It’s Schmuckitecture of the lowest order.
answer is we’re broke and we don’t do big things in america anymore, haven’t for some time. we ceded that.
My question is how does it “rehabilitate the history & culture of Sejong-Ro”? Just curious.
It’s about as tacky as the Vegas ‘Crystal’ schlock. Can anyone remind me why anyone ever thought Libeskind was talented?
because he has built the Jewish museum in Berlin which took 15 years to finish, and in case you haven’t been, it’s a great work of architecture.
boring…..libeskind will be one of the first architects whose work will become outdated….the chinese economic bubble will burst, and they’ll end up like dubai, with all these half built buildings everywhere, or a disjointed masterplan…
This is in south korea, which is a developed country with high demands for projects likes these. I Think its a great project I would like to see it built someday.
Actually, this building is in Seoul, South Korea where there is real demand and lots of finished buildings everywhere…and so far, the American bubble has bursted the worst of anywhere else.
The drawings for this project look good, but Daniel Libeskind is not a architect he is just a sketchup artist that tries to work with green technology. His projects are just graphical works.
i begin to doubt on the name Libeskind after seeing this.It’s a big gap between this and his ground Zero competition few years back.
Interesting. The random diagonals that symbolized the trauma of the holocaust now “reflects the vision of KT as a landmark tower and the generous spirit of the KT employees”.
Go ahead guys talk like big time architect and don’t show your stuff…. run and hide like sissies. Come on (David-quan- daniel-mike-Edward) show your website …..are you girlytects.
Nina? Is that you? Can’t the little girly man stand up for himself?
Amazing. I was looking at the images and I said to myself, “I don’t know what it is, but something about the design reflects the vision of KT as a landmark tower and the generous spirit of the KT employees.” And then I read that that’s exactly what Libeskind said his concept was. Wow. Double Wow. That’s the level of true genius that separates Libeskind from the girlytects.
Really excellent and well handled. Thanks for sharing.
Did Libeskind do the “concept sketch” on a napkin yet? Or is he waiting to trace over the final rendering with a fat marker?
It takes more than a few oddball tilts and a few diagonal lines to create an architecture of significance and lasting value. Even the slick rendering can’t hide the fact that there is no architectural merit to this hopelessly uninspired jumble of wedges. And the atrium looks about as refined as a shopping mall in Minnesota. All that’s missing from Libeskind’s presentation is the fatiguing sound of easy-listening Elevator Muzak.
looks like year3 student work
what makes it landmark? i cant see
What you have here is a straightforward slab tower the Gansam Architects probably designed to code and zoning regs. It looks like Libeskind was hired to tack on some flashy doodads, to give it some cheap pizzazz. That’s all he does is tack on some extraneous pizazz. (Let’s not call it architecture or even design.) He’s always been a purveyor of superficial graphics. That’s why he invents the post-rationalized gobbledygook about “the exterior form clearly emphasizes symbolism of KT by introducing elements for art, culture, nature, environment, and technology”, or the even more ludicrous allusion to “the spiritual spot of KT technology”. Libeskind is grasping at straws, desperate to seem relevant in a world that has moved beyond him and his juvenile pretensions.
You got that totally right. This is a standard group of towers with cheap make-up and a trapezoiodal skirt.
ok, then all we can learn from this project is politics, not an architecture nor design.
Losers… here kitty kitty kitty.
Before you attack other people’s opinions, maybe you should try to explain what you find of interest in a building that nearly everyone else agrees is dreadful or bland. If nothing you would open up the debate in a factual way.
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