Posco Tower Songdo, High-rise building in Songdo, South Korea
Posco Tower-Songdo is a 305-metre, 68-floor skyscraper in Songdo International City, Incheon, with a faceted glass facade that tapers from a square base to a triangular rooftop. Its 29 elevators include a dedicated lift to the 65th floor that travels at 420 metres per minute. The column-free ground-floor lobby has French limestone floors and Vermont slate walls.
Construction began in 2007 but was interrupted three times by financial challenges before completion in 2014. These delays reflect the economic difficulties that affected South Korea's development plans during the global financial crisis.
The tower's name changed from Northeast Asia Trade Tower to Posco Tower-Songdo after Posco affiliates moved in. Its 65th floor, once an observatory opened for the 2010 G-20 finance ministers' meeting, became the Panoramic65 bar and dining venue in 2016. The building appears in South Korean films and dramas, including The Attorney (2013) and Descendants of the Sun (2016).
The tower stands beside Songdo Convensia, the Riverstone shopping center and the Sheraton Incheon Hotel, with a large parking station next door. Offices, hotel and residences each have their own entrance lobby, so head to the right one. The 65th-floor Panoramic65 is reached by a dedicated elevator running at 420 m per minute.
The 65th floor held a public observatory that opened temporarily in February 2010 for the G-20 finance ministers' meeting; it closed in June 2016 when the bar and dining venue Panoramic65 took its place. A dedicated lift rising at 420 metres per minute reaches the floor in under a minute.
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