South Korean Tower with Mitsubishi Electric Lift Completes

The 27-story Bundang Doosan Tower, with a design by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) featuring stacked, skybridge-connected masses forming a grand, square portal, is complete in Seongnam, South Korea, KPF announced in April. KPF Communications Manager John Gibson tells ELEVATOR WORLD the tower — headquarters for Doosan Corp. — is served by a Mitsubishi Electric elevator system. Six lifts serve the parking and podium-level office amenities area, eight, the low office zone, and 10, the high office zone. For better efficiency, office zone elevators have been equipped with a destination-dispatch system. Besides offices, the 83,000-m² building includes an auditorium, a daycare center for employees’ children, a fitness center, the Doosan History Museum and a café that opens to a landscaped roof terrace. “The design strives for rational simplicity, while being highly expressive and impactful,” KPF President and Design Principal James von Klemperer says.