Lotte World Tower
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Skyscraper in Seoul, South Korea
Key facts
- Former names
- Two Lotte World Tower Lotte World Premium Tower
- Alternative names
- Lotte Jamsil Super Tower
- Preceded by
- One World Trade Center
- Status
- Completed
- Type
- Observation, office, hotel, residential, retail
- Location
- ( Sincheon-dong ) 300 Olympic-ro, Songpa-gu , Seoul , South Korea, South Korea
- Groundbreaking
- May 2009
- Construction started
- January 22, 2010
- Completed
- December 22, 2016
- Opening
- April 3, 2017 ; 9 years ago ( April 3, 2017 )
- Architectural
- 555 m (1,821 ft)
- Top floor
- 486 m (1,594 ft)
- Floor count
- 123 and 6 below ground
- Floor area
- 304,081 m (3,273,100 sq ft)
- Architect
- Kohn Pedersen Fox
- Developer
- Lotte Engineering & Construction
- Engineer
- Syska Hennessy Group (MEP)
- Structural engineer
- Leslie E. Robertson Associates
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Lotte World Tower (Korean: 롯데월드타워; RR: lotdewoldeutawo) 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lotte World Tower” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.