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Busan International Finance Center

Busan International Finance Center

HAUD

Photo: 안우석 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Location
Busan, South Korea
Client / Owner
Busan Metropolitan City Corporation
Year
Completed 2014
Access
Private
Typology
Commercial
Style
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The Busan International Finance Center is an office skyscraper in Busan, South Korea. It stands 289 meters (948 feet) tall and has 63 floors. HAUD designed it, and the Busan Metropolitan City Corporation developed it. IL Structural Eng. Co. handled the structural design, Thornton Tomasetti provided peer review, and Hyundai Engineering & Construction was the main contractor.

Construction ran from 2011 to 2014. The building is made of concrete and glass. Its listed style is Futurism and Modern.

When it was completed it became the third tallest building in Busan and the fourth tallest in South Korea. According to its sources, it was designed to withstand an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 and was intended to drive the city's economic growth.

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