Tower Palace Three
Seoul, South Korea

HEIGHT: 264m/865 feet
FLOORS: 69 floors
COMPLETION: 2003
ARCHITECT: Skidmore Owings & Merril (SOM)

Tower Palace is intended to promote a new standard of high-rise living for the people of Seoul. The tower's design and image is derived from natural forms and influences which integrate state-of-the-art building technology to provide a landmark for the city of Seoul and the people of Korea."

The project will include a large southern park for the residents, a sports club, a gallery, a banquet room, a business center, restaurants, retail shops and a sky garden. The tower's form is intended to add a truly unique shape to the skyline. This form is characterized by a series of radiating planes, which will provide a dynamic and ever-changing appearance as the sun moves across the faces. These planes provide a strong sense of verticality to the tower and allow for the discreet movement of air through the units. The tower will be clad in a light blue-green tinted high performance glass to allow for maximized light transmission and bright views with metallic panels to provide sparkle to the solid surfaces.

http://tinypic.com/bvnyt

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/659/1498tower_palace_3_g_6_.jpg

http://myhome.hanafos.com/~slater/yang/img_3879.jpg

http://sepia1987.netian.com/hwalbum/20021011193006/dog.jpg

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/659/1600towerpalace3compelte.jpg

http://sajin.new21.net/zboard/data/gallery1/gbtbq7.jpg

Doh! I was just writing a reply about this being the new World's Tallest all residential tower, and I see that is the first thing you wrote!



I like the shape of it in plan, and how it resembles a leafy form. It's quite bland in a way, but so are other supertall resdiential towers. Too bad that there aren't open air balconies!


8.0/10

7.5/10

8/10...I don't like the green color, but the building looks fairly good for a residential tower. It doesn't look that great from a distance though.

this tower looks so aerodynamic with its 3 wings.... and it is a residential tower!! a little hometown bias coming into play makes it a 10/10. :D

its definatly one of my favorite seoul skyscrapers up there with Korea World Trade and them....
worlds greatest residential!....for now
(hehe, dun call me bias:))

10/10

8.5/10

Nice mixture of green glass :cool: I like :D Plus it's the tallest resedential in the world right now! :guns1:

8.5/10

10/10 Perfect for me ;)

8/10

A very beautiful residential!

Stunningly stunning facade. The building sides pattern created the most gorgeous shape I'v ever seen....Height is good..I shoulda gives 10..except the top part shoulda be taller....9/10

I like it, not a very unique building but i dont see anything wrong with it either, 8.5/10

the TP3 in the TP cluster:D
u/c photo
http://geophoto.njoyschool.net/data/club/album/10000585_4_2_20020910_192325.JPG

who gave this tower "3 or less?"

people who r too lazy to post a reply..

taken by Donkie
http://op.co.kr/i/imge/200305/17/29/15284922163ec5babf10444.jpg

A good looking tower but not really something special imo

8.0/10

8.5/10 don't like skyscrapers stand too closly to each other.

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8/10 for Tower Palace. But 10/10 for this bldg. in the middle of this Pic!!!!! OMG!! SSSSSSHHHHIIIIIINNNNNYYYYYYY. luv it.

7.5/10 -
The veritcal "pleats" are this tower's most striking feature; they must provide plenty of opportunity for contrast between light and shadow, and thus make the shape more interesting.

The facade, however, is a bit bland; I like the color, but it doesn't seem to dance with the light that well, and it needs something in it to provide a bit more constrast, somehow - though the wider mullions at the edges of the "pleats" do emphasize the height...

I also wonder if the sense of height might have been further improved by a few horizontal setbacks running around the tower, especially near the top...

9.5/10, didn't give it a 10 cause i liked the original design which was exactly the same but taller.

shame on me, I missed it.

8/10

9/10 :eek:

nice, 10

Additional pics from Donkie's thread

http://op.co.kr/i/imge/200307/10/30/9754799493f0cebd5cf1fd.jpg

http://op.co.kr/i/imge/200307/10/30/4038983903f0cebd6a59f4.jpg

7.5/10 great building. i don't exactly like that part of the building sticking out, but i guess it was in the design to keep the building from being boring. the top is pretty dull, i must say, but overall i like this building. it dominates the skyline perfectly :okay:

Was it necessary to make it two meters taller than the TWT?? :)
7.5/10

7.5/10. But the top spoils it all. The facade is awesome.

7/10

9

10/10 WOW there is so many picky person here. I always give 10/10 on any Asian City and of course Korea too.

Unique

9/10

I'm glad to see that they are building res. so tall in Korea but this building is boring! It's almost invisible. 4/10

hmmm wait till they make more high rise scrapers in that cluster...that would look so GREAT:D :D

8/10

if it was the old design, i'll vote higher:D

4.5/10 :)

oops :D (read on below)

Jagged and winged........the result is a 'not too bad at all' building, though the appeal could have been made stronger.

7/10

I wander if they are making tower palace 4?

http://www.dcauser.co.kr/bbs/table/gallery_catalog_i/upload/start7.jpg

8 looks ok ,nothing special

Not really a one its own
I love the shiiny one two but only a novelity idea!
This one Tower Palace Three needs a better name two. Sees to be just one of many in complex

8.5/10

I like this one.

8.5/10

Inside the Tower Palace Cluster..
http://www.kornet.net/pds/BBS/photo/5093_photo_v.gif

7.5/10
Nice facade. The buildings around makes it look better.

Great original design! 8.5/10

I like it, is original and besides is a residential skyscraper 8,5/10

truly fitting to be seoul's tallest. it definitely make tower palace looks more interesting. the other buildings in the complex are too boxy.

8.5

8/10

i love it 8/10

7/10

Nice glass and color. The design is ok, but its too thin and too many corners (but its a res tower, so I understand they have to do it).

Looks like stalks of celery or something. Original footprint. 8/10

don't like skyscrapers stand too closly to each other.

I do, its called density.

was there other older designs for TP3? anyways, being it defining Korea's new age of skyscraper-dom, i give it 10/10

boring! don't like it! 5

It's alright. 8/10

a couple skyline pics..

http://www.kornet.net/netizen/mykornet/photo/ALBUM_LK/img_6/ozoc7942/album1_ozoc7942_15.jpg
http://img19.exs.cx/img19/3505/-977.jpg

7.5

Nice modern residential tower

The Tower Palaces are so great! All it needs is a PC bang..

great 9/10

6/10

Very tall, but very bland.

In terms of architecture it offers nothing new.

looks good. 8/10

Does anyone have a photo of the base?

I'm disappointed with the top...

But its shape , just looks good in some angle. Pretty good among the res tower =) !

7.5/10

Its ok 6,5/10

7.5/10

Great building. Probably the best in Seoul too. I give it a 9/10. :okay:

9.

one of my favorites, I give it a 9

Really good tower, 8

Great 9.5/10

Extreme height for this one. Interesting shape as well. From some angles it looks really massive and boxy, which is a bit sad imo. Also, the green glass could be better.
7.

For a residential tower, this is a very classy design. The horizontal lines work well.

8/10 :)

7/10

9/10

It´s good but it isn´t anything special

Average tower nothing special,but not bad 7.5/10

only a 7 from me... doesnt feel like a 2003 building... feel like a 60's

Very nice tower. 7.5

8/10 :)

8/10

I like the cladding a lot.It's the best feature of this tower.

8,5/10

7/10

8/10

I like the facade. 7.5.

10/10

8/10

7.5/10.

8/10

Just good:) 8/10

Not good from a distance. 6.5/10.

Interesting shape, impressive height and nice green glass :cool:
9/10

8.5/10

Very nice tower. 8/10.

Lovely residential tower, 9/10

8/10

I quite like it, 8/10

6/10

this isn´t and absolutely unique ánd innovate building probaly

8/10

6 Not my cup of tea. Tallest of its type, though

8.5, I seem to like it.

8.5/10

7.5/10
the shape is boring, but a like the green-blue colour and metallic panels

Not mindblowing by any standards but not bad at all. 7/10

9/10

7.5/10

7,5/10

Very classy. When I see a building with a name like "Tower Palace Three, Tower G" (apparentely it full name) I was expecting a very ordinary residential building with dozens of little clones lined up beside it, like a lot of stuff in Hong Kong. But this has individuality plus a stunning facade and great form. 8.5/10

5/10

taken by Donkie
http://op.co.kr/i/imge/200305/17/29/15284922163ec5babf10444.jpg amazing
10/10 for this picture
8/10 for the building

I like it
8/10

Yes Yes Yes! love it 9.5

8/10 nice

8.5/10 very nice

7.5/10
it looks fine to me. :)

A brave design could have done with a braver cladding 7.5/10

7/10

Love it's windows and it self. 9/10

7/10

a little too metallic green. I dont find it to be the best facade. too metaliic to seem like home. to be it feels almost industrial.

6.5/10

5,5/10

7/10

7,5/10

6/10...................

This may be the tallest building in Seoul, but I don't think it's the best.

6.5

Good 6/10

nice 7.5/10

not bad ... 8/10

I like the Facade 9/10

9/10 i love this style

8/10

pretty good

7.5/10

5/10

Like it very much, especially the color. 9.5/10

8/10

I Like it... It deserves a 10 ;)

8/10.

8/10

10/10

My favorite Residential Building!! I like how it has wings to make it slender yet imposing overall. Really like the tint of the glass - 10/10

Absolutely fantastic- one of my favourites...Great shape, gorgeous elevation, beautiful top. 10/10

8 / 10

A clean, pleasant design.

it's ok..nothing spectacular.

looks good
9/10

It looks fine.

8/10

9. very nice.

8.5/10 Very crisp looking residential tower very modern.

tha facade looks good with the glass but de design it's not too good

9 / 10

9.5 /10

That's an elegant clean-cut building. It's cost-efficient as there are no stupid redundant structures like those found on buildings in China, Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia etc.

9 / 10

love the glass walls.

9 / 10

6.5...

9/10

good one.

9/10

ok 5/10

7.5/10.

10 - cool.

7.5/10

nothing special 7/10

8/10

6/10

8.0/10 :) .

That one looks fine. 8.5/10

10/10

9,5/10 :)

5/10

7/10

10/10 great design

10/10

6,5/10

Nothing special. 6/10.

Random building.

7.5/10

lack something on top,imo.

8/10

simple yet classy. 8

8/10

wow, what a picture 9/10

7 / 10

9/10 remind me Toronto's scyscraper style!

Looks quite a bit better close up, but perhaps a bit bland.

7/10

7.5/10

8.5/10

:cheers:

8.5/10

7/10

7/10

4/10

7,5/10

7/10

8/10

The cladding is top class, however I think the tower would look better when the lower part was a separate tower. :)

8.

6.5

8.5/10

5.5

9.5/10

8/10

There's nothing special about this building:)
7/10

9.5/10
Nice number of floors xD

I like it 9/10

Just ok...

6.0/10

7.5/10

7/10

8/10. totally ok.

8. Good building. Regards.

7.5/10

7/10

8/10

Shiny but bland. 7

Good. 7.5/10

7/10

7.5/10

The tower itself is pretty nice, if only a bit ordinary. I would have expected something more unique from S.O.M., but nonetheless a nice building.

6,5/10

0/10

8.5

8/10

7.5/10

8/10

:happy:

nice. 7

8/10

Looks normal but has character.

Looks quite cool from some angles. 6.5/10

voted 8/10 great glass cladding are always my favorite part of a tower.

8/10

9.5/10

8/10

8/10

Nothing special - just correct. 7/10

8/10

7/10

6/10

7/10

8/10

7/10

7.5/10

8/10

6/10

7/10

7/10

5/10

7/10

6/10 from MEDAN, INDONESIA

7/10

9/10 :okay:

Average 6/10 :dunno: