Architecture

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Asymptote's design for the World Business Center Tower, a single building comprising three distinct towers, effectively questions older notions of singularity and autonomy in tall building design. The composition was inspired by Busan's dramatic situation as a modern skyline set against a striking backdrop of mountains and sea.

The fifty-story base building negotiates both the site and city, transporting visitors upward to a sky lobby and gardens with awe-inspiring views of the surrounding city and expansive natural vistas. It is from this vantage point that the three slender towers rise even higher, gracefully tapering upwards surrounding a spectacular central voided space and the sky gardens.

The tallest tower expresses the inherent structural elegance of the scheme as a whole, and through the entire building’s elegant, formal and sculptural manifestation, the project provides Busan and Korea with a unique, symbolic and unparalleled architectural expression for the 21st Century.