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Korea's recent boom in construction has created it's share
of bland high-rise architecture, a phenomenon not limited
to its urban centers, but others such as Chicago with its
predominance of painted concrete boxes. The steel and glass
variety of skyscrapers has always taken precedence in people's
minds when it comes to quality and the sheer exuberance of
seeing the building rise from the ground to the sky. But it
is definitely not solely a high-rise's structure that determines
its appeal, its form and cladding dictate its relationship
to its surrounding, and its lower floors indicate its immediate
relationship to pedestrians. The Dongbu Kangnam Tower in the
Gangnam-gu district of Seoul, by the American firm Kohn
Pedersen Fox successfully attempts to address these three
components: its form, skin and pedestrian relationship.
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