D-Cube City

D-Cube City
General information
Type	Mixed-Use
Address	360-45 Shindorim-dong, Guro-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Town or city	Seoul
Country	South Korea
Construction started	2007
Completed	2011
Opened	2011
Cost	1.3 trillion won
Client	Daesung Industrial Co., Ltd.
Technical details
Floor count	51 Stories and 8 Basements
Floor area	350,054 sq. meters
Design and construction
Architect	Samoo Architects & Engineers (Local Design/Executive/Residential Architect), The Jerde Partnership (Design Architects)
Other designers	Landscape Architect: Oikos, Consultant: Mori Building Company
Main contractor	Daesung Industrial Co., Ltd.
Awards and prizes	2012 MIPIM Awards Finalist, Shopping Centre Category
Website
Official Website

D-Cube City is a mega-complex which includes department stores, office spaces, park, art center, parking garage, theatre, hotel, restaurants, theme park, and private residences. ^[1] This mixed use facility was developed by the same groups that developed Roppongi Hills in Tokyo.^[2]

Architecture

The steel and glass façade and open internal architecture provides an opportunity for the surrounding landscape to enter into the structure, both visually and literally as many stores open out onto the adjacent parks and gardens. Large atriums house many species of plants as well as internal water features and a six story waterfall. “Water flow” is one of the interior aesthetic themes. ^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

D-Cube City’s six acres of parks, plazas, and gardens are spread across the structure’s stepped roofs.^[8]During construction, an endangered species of frog, Kaloula borealis was found on the site, and after discovering that the proposed structure’s site was the frogs’ habitat the designers recreated and incorporated a five billion won ecology park into the landscape design as a new habitat. ^[9]

See also

• Namba Parks (Osaka)
• Canal City Hakata (Fukuoka)
• Riverwalk Kitakyushu
• Roppongi Hills (Tokyo)

References

1. "Building Stats".
2. "Building Developers".
3. "Architecture 1".
4. "Architecture 2".
5. "Architecture 3".
6. "Architecture 4".
7. "Architecture 5".
8. "Landscape".
9. "Endangered Frogs".

Coordinates: 37°30′35″N 126°53′25″E / 37.509677°N 126.890336°E