South Korean Tower With Mitsubishi Electric Lift Completes

Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com 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. Image credit: courtesy of KPF To read the full transcript of today's podcast, visit: elevatorworld.com/news Subscribe to the Podcast: iTunes │ Google Play | SoundCloud │ Stitcher │ TuneIn