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Dissatisfied with the design of its 20-story Facts + Figures tower being built in Seoul, Korea, Completion Consultants Corporation halted 1999 MEP Engineer and launched a limited design competition WSP in 1994, hoping to salvage the 17 stories Size of steel frame and concrete floor slabs that 55,740 gsm Structural Engineer Dewhurst Macfarlane & Partners had already been erected. Rafael Viñoly Awards Structural Design Group Architects won by rethinking the program Special Merit, Benedictus and creating three unique, but linked, Award, DuPont, 2000 Structural Engineer of Record building volumes. The resulting design is Samoo Architects & Engineers Media Coverage a mixed-use facility incorporating offices, INSIDE JoongAng Daily, entertainment, and an iconic restaurant “Samsung Jong-no Landscape Architect volume suspended at the top, making Tower,” March 2003 Jeffrey L. Bruce & Company, LLC the tower an instantly recognizable city Acoustics / AV / Security landmark. Client Samsung Corporation Consultant Shen Milsom & Wilke, Inc. The 12-story ground-floor volume, built from the preexisting floor slabs, faces Architect the city center with a convex structural CallisonRTKL

glass curtain wall and contains open-plan Lighting Designer offices. Rooftop terraces on this volume Hillman Dibernardo & provide tenants with an expansive view of Associates Inc. the city. Separated from the lower offices Specifications Writer by two floors of mechanical space, Rafael Robert Schwartz & Associates Viñoly Architects designed an eight-story rectangular volume that houses further office areas, but is distinguished from the New Business + General Inquiries lower structure. A circular, tube-like stair 50 Vandam Street Andrea Lamberti and elevator core rises at each of the three New York, NY 10013 [email protected] corners of the roughly triangle-shaped +1 212 924 5060 building, extending above the office Media Inquiries London Raymond blocks to support the “cloud,” a double- 11-29 Fashion Street [email protected] height restaurant, which floats above the London, E1 6PX city skyline for 360-degree views. +44 (0) 20 8206 6200 www.rvapc.com April 2016 sAMSUNG JONG-NO TOWER Seoul, South Korea