BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA
Busan Lotte Tower
CLIENT Lotte / SIZE 3.3 ha, 8 acres / STATUS Under Design / DESIGN TEAM Balmori Associates / Samoo Architects
The Busan Lotte Town Tower (also known as Busan Lotte World Tower) is a 500m supertall skyscraper in Busan, South Korea. The tower is planned on a site next to Nampo-dong subway station and transportation hub. The first phase included a department store with a market and a cinema and it was completed in 2014. This current phase includes an observation deck, offices, and cultural facilities in a 107-story arboretum skyscraper designed by Samoo Architects. The tower’s underground parking space for over 2,400 cars will be covered by a landscaped plaza.
The landscape at Busan Lotte Tower represents an incredible opportunity to integrate landscape to this superb vertical structure. Balmori’s landscape intervention in the project includes the entry plaza and the observation deck. The central idea behind this landscape is generated by an urgent need for programmatic flexibility in a limited outdoor plaza space. This landscape is designed to be experienced and frame multiple viewpoints towards the bay.