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Facts
Official Name Seoul Light DMC Tower
Former / Other Names Seoulite
Digital Media City Landmark Building
Type building
Status Vision
Country South Korea
City Seoul
Street Address / Map Sangam-dong DMC F1/F2 Block
Building Function hotel / residential / office
Structural Material composite
Proposed 2009
Figures
Height: Architectural 640.4 meter / 2101 feet
Height: Occupied 529.8 meter / 1738 feet
Height: To Tip 640.4 meter / 2101 feet
Height: Observatory 525.5 meter / 1724 feet
Floors Above Ground 133
Floors Below Ground 10
# of Elevators 43
Tower GFA 320,699 m² / 3,451,975 ft²
Development GFA 461,644 m² / 4,969,095 ft²
Companies Involved
Owner Seoul Light AMC
Developer Millennium Builder
Design Architect Skidmore Owings & Merrill
Associate Architect Samoo Architects & Engineers
Structural Engineer Skidmore Owings & Merrill
MEP Engineer SYSKA Hennessy Group
Main Contractors Daewoo;
Daelim;
Doosan E&C
Videos
Sustainable Strategies for High-Rise Buildings
R.Gilchrist (SOM), CTBUH Mumbai Conference

Technical Papers
A Paradigm Shift in the 21st Century Skyscraper
Emily Merrill & Dr. Lee Gray (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), CTBUH Shanghai Congress

Other CTBUH Links
Tallest 20 in 2020: Entering the Era of the Megatall
CTBUH Report, 2011
Tallest 20 in 2020: Entering the Era of the Megatall
CTBUH Poster, 2011

News Articles
SOM's Mustafa Abadan Designs Sustainable Super-Tower
inhabitat, 2010-08
Tower by SOM Rising in Seoul
Architectural Record, 2009-12
Ground broken at Digital Media City Tower
World Architecture News, 2009-10
Construction of Asia's Tallest Building Starts
The Chosunilbo, 2009-10
Funding Secured For 690m Tall Korean Scraper
SkyscraperNews.com, 2009-04
Seoul to Have World's 2nd Tallest Skyscraper
The Korea Times, 2009-03