[N830MH]

http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7041/bfed61.jpg
korea2002 (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=85390478&postcount=708)

Looking good!! Keep it up!!

[scalziand]

http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/4246/59705861.jpg
inno4321 (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=86339058&postcount=753)

[scalziand]

http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/4007/imag0250v.jpg
korea2002 (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=86938358&postcount=830)

[scalziand]

Above ground finally?
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/6743/img1272ab.jpg
korea2002 (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=87251885&postcount=872)

[401PAS]

Massive!!!!

[idididsh]

Green Part is Main Tower's Progress.

http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/3130/20120116121535.jpg
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/6038/20120116121551.jpg

From Lotte World Tower's Public Exhibition Hall
Shopping Mall site
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/2411/13343798.jpg
Tower site
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/3656/dsc02212ag.jpg

[scalziand]

http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/6742/42269017641751247606010.jpg
korea2002

[Austinlee]

Metallic lobster claw!

[scalziand]

http://i.imgur.com/l8DHR.jpg
korea2002 (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=91892770&postcount=1212)

[MolsonExport]

That is a Lotte photos.

[scalziand]

that is a lotte of construction.

That is a Lotte photos.

Three strikes and you're out.





...of Lotte.:jester:








This post does not constitute backseat modding, or the threat of backseat modding.

[scalziand]

The floors half started to be built above the lobby connecting the megacolumns to the core.

http://i.imgur.com/3OheC.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/j51OO.jpg
korea2002 (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=92619226&postcount=1293)

[blacktrojan3921]

That is a Lotte photos.

http://www.campusbasement.com/uploads/1330284710_medium.jpeg

[scalziand]

15th floor now revealed from under the formworks.

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/9048/p1100681.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/39/p1100681.jpg/)
inno4321

[mrnyc]

i see jobs. a...lotte jobs!

i like the placement of lotte2 a...nonomustresistbutcant...lotte better tho.

[kiwi4life]

this is one massive structure! construction these days is just unreal

[scalziand]

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/7091/p1110952c.jpg
http://gall.dcinside.com/list.php?id=city&no=377417&page=4&bbs=

[Duck From NY]

Seoul is such a massive city, it deserves a super-tall.

[whiteford]

pure awesomeness.

[scalziand]

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/6600/6656v.png
inno4321 (http://img33.imageshack.us/i/6656v.png/)

The circled area is going to be an underground bus terminal that links with the subway.

[Guiltyspark]

The sky in Korea and China always looks so gray. I assume massive pollution from northern China is to blame.

[Duck From NY]

The sky in Korea and China always looks so gray. I assume massive pollution from northern China is to blame.

I don't think visible smog would be able to pass over the ocean water of the Yellow Sea.

Greater Seoul is one of the largest metros in the world, and it's mostly surrounded by mountains to the North, East, and South. The prevailing winds come from the West, so I imagine they have a situation similar to L.A. where the emissions they produce get bottle necked in to the valleys. From what I understand, though, they are rapidly pushing to reverse the problem with additional green space and low-emission buses.

[Guiltyspark]

[QUOTE=Duck From NY;5916313]I don't think visible smog would be able to pass over the ocean water of the Yellow Sea.

You would be shocked at how far particles can travel in the atmosphere.

[vandelay]

In the spring, yellow dust all the way from central Asia and the Gobi desert can obscure the sky all the way to Japan. South Korea actually tried to help China with reforestation efforts in their country, which the Chinese then used for their highway projects. :haha:

[Ed007Toronto]

^ That's a great way to help the environment.

[Spocket]

^ That's a great way to help the environment.

Actually , it just may be .
If you travel along any of the new freeways in China (and they're building hundreds if not thousands of kilometers of them every year) you'll notice that they're all lined with newly planted trees . Not just a single row of them either but about a hundred feet deep on either side of the highway .

[Duck From NY]

[QUOTE=Duck From NY;5916313]I don't think visible smog would be able to pass over the ocean water of the Yellow Sea.

You would be shocked at how far particles can travel in the atmosphere.

I know visible dust and sand can travel over a body of water that large, but I didn't know man-made smog could. Either way, I imagine most of the smog from those pictures originate in Korea.

[WonderlandPark]

Every few years we get haze from the Chinese dust storms.....in California. Its light, but it can travel all the way across the Pacific if the winds are right.

[seadragon]

I don't think visible smog would be able to pass over the ocean water of the Yellow Sea.

Hello Duck From NY

It's not uncommon to see air pollution emanating from China starting from Sakhalin and sometimes from Kamchatka. The air progressively getting worst the closer you get.

From Taiwan to Japan, it is not uncommon to see the air pollution drifting out over the China Sea to Taiwan, reaching Okinawa, along with enveloping large portions of Kyushu and southern Honshu.

The air pollution from the Tianjin, Shandong Peninsula and metro Shanghai regions touching the Korean Peninsula on a regular bases. The Yellow Sea being little if any barrier to the propagating air pollution.

At times, the simple existence of China and the volume of air pollution being produced reaching very unsettling levels with the country's near hemispheric effect on the Earth. At times, China from the air, reminding me of the Peanuts character Pig-Pen, with his "reaching out and touching" metaphoric outgassing cloud of unknown debris and substance, though with China, no longer metaphoric.

I have posted a small website on air quality in China and Taiwan at:

http://www.phisicalpsience.com/public/Air_Pollution/air_pollution_China.html

[Duck From NY]

I have posted a small website on air quality in China and Taiwan at:

http://www.phisicalpsience.com/public/Air_Pollution/air_pollution_China.html
-
I stand corrected, thank you for the link.

[bigreach]

Tower seeems to be moving at a decent pace, seen much slower, like the 1 in lower Manhattan,, Seoul deserves a Super they can be proud of. Lotte tower looks like a cool, somewhat larger version of 1WTC and looks like their not even counting on a spire to boost their numbers.

[mrnyc]

gotta whole lotte love for this tower!

[Ed007Toronto]

Whole Lotte Love! :)

[scalziand]

http://dcimg1.dcinside.com/viewimage.php?id=city&no=29bcc427b68377a16fb3dab004c86b6f9344f9cbfdf16fd692e0a09dab2907d1b7a24723d6037ba10fd03500de96dfa5210265de84e4bd54315cb6b06a1f37&f_no=7cef8174b58b75f420b5c6b2
supertall555 (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=98161890&postcount=1581)

[Surrealplaces]

I'm not actually that big a fan of this building, but it will be exciting to watch as it gets built.

[scalziand]

Me neither, but it's still worth watching for its height.:cheers:

[MolsonExport]

http://www.campusbasement.com/uploads/1330284710_medium.jpeg

Seoul has a lotte people, so they deserve a tower with a lotte floors. :banana:

[bigreach]

Seoul has a lotte people, so they deserve a tower with a lotte floors. :banana:

I can't help it that's a damn funny post.. There sure aren't a Lotte photos on this forum..

[bigreach]

:previous:I can't help that, thats a damn funny pic, not a lotte Coverage going on here lately.. Sorry double posted, now trupled

[kpdrummer82]

There might not be a Lotte coverage but there definitely are a Lotte posts

[animatedmartian]

I can see there's going to be a Lotte jokes from this...

[miesian]

Starbucks should build a "Latte Tower" in Seattle. :P

[scalziand]

32 floors

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/5999/c18a61.jpg
http://muse87.blog.me/20175608660

[scalziand]

At 2 floors a week this could be nearly topped out by the end of the year.

http://dcimg1.dcinside.com/viewimage.php?id=city&no=29bcc427b68077a16fb3dab004c86b6f3a7cae081271cc0f9af04a56ffe8b2851c5eb13db8262bfcef822019e03d504017f1e07495bd7e1b40801a4a61fee2ade5be12d00f0349ddc25191465419&f_no=7cef8373b6856df63beff0973781006b1a1f598f6a382878ad1ed8
supertall555 (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=99379646&postcount=1696)

[hunser]

What's the highest occupied floor? Must be <500m looking at that massive crown.

EDIT: found it on CTBUH (http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/seoul/lotte-world-tower/):

Figures
Height: Architectural 554.6 meter / 1819 feet
Height: Occupied 497.6 meter / 1633 feet
Height: To Tip 556.0 meter / 1824 feet
Height: Observatory 497.6 meter / 1633 feet
Floors Above Ground 123
Floors Below Ground 6
# of Elevators 58
Top Elevator Speed 10 m/s
Tower GFA 304,081 m² / 3,273,101 ft²
Development GFA 505,294 m² / 5,438,939 ft²
# of Hotel Rooms 260

[Yackemflaber69]

Starbucks should build a "Latte Tower" in Seattle. :P


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSyVIbLh4QU

[arkhitektor]

32 floors

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/5999/c18a61.jpg
http://muse87.blog.me/20175608660

I haven't been following this thread, so apologies if it's already been discussed, but this looks like it has the highest core-to-usable-floorspace ratio of anything I've ever seen. There's barely anything space left to occupy on each floor...

[scalziand]

It's no different than other similar towers like Pingan and Guangzhou Chow Tai Fook Center, or even 1WTC. There's actually 40'-50' between the core and the exterior.

http://www.doka.com/web/media/images/references/bp_lotte02.jpg
doka (http://www.doka.com/web/references/index.en.php?refid=7711)

Pingan:
http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/6591/007floorplans1.jpg
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=85456010&postcount=2175

[MolsonExport]

After sitting so long below street level this thing is really motoring in the style of the construction of the Empire State Building.

[scalziand]

http://dcimg1.dcinside.com/viewimage.php?id=city&no=29bcc427b68077a16fb3dab004c86b6f3a7cae081271cc0f92f04a56ffe8b285319d309c32339615e0a4a46e0c916fd6b73fc04ede79f5c42760d3d85d1192&f_no=7cee8077b78575f420b5c6b2
supertall555 (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=99649977&postcount=1722)

[Design-mind]

That massive core has gained quite the height since the previous posts. I am in awe of the rate they are going up.

[Design-mind]

Here it shows floor description.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cXIp6R0-RPg/UGd-FfWwn6I/AAAAAAAAAb0/T19ygH4geng/s1600/Lotte+World+Tower+Floor+description.jpg
http://hangukstyle.blogspot.ca/2012/09/lotte-world-tower-2nd-tallest-building.html

[bigreach]

2 floors a week, is impressive, but to think of it topping out by the end of the year, nah they'll hit some snags.. OH wait this isn't the USA. That's not fair to say but 432 is the only US skyscraper that's moving at such a pace and its probably nearly 1/2 the girth of this.

[scalziand]

^They have hit some snags with cracking in the supercolumns.

http://cfile7.uf.tistory.com/image/27332E475129FF221527F6 (http://cfile7.uf.tistory.com/original/27332E475129FF221527F6)
http://poison777.tistory.com/3771

[Design-mind]

Amazing how far up they have gone. Does anyone know what floor they are at?

[scalziand]

Floor 36-37.

[bigreach]

Floor 36-37.

Have they taken care of that problem,, or build higher while repairing it,, Anybody know who's perimeter is bigger this or ST?at the thickest point

[kpdrummer82]

Wow this tower's had a lotte progress

[Yackemflaber69]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uQ76qrlK78

[bigreach]

what happened to the other tower that was supposed to be built in S.korea Busan Lotte I believe it's called,, not u/c anymore??? Anybody have any info on that 1?