http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/travel/ne ... 6350920445Plan to build 'hashtag' skyscraper in South Korea
by: By Kate Schneider
From: news.com.au
May 09, 2012 2:06PM
JUST how quirky can a skyscraper get?
We've already seen tall towers shaped like elephants and robots, but now a company is pushing the limits with another strange shape - a “hashtag” skyscraper.
Exclamation mark!
The Cross Hash Tower will be built by Danish architects BIG in Seoul, South Korea as a gateway to the new Yongsan business district
The 21,000sqm cross-hatched interlocking skyscraper is designed in a gravity-defying tic-tac-toe shape.
One tower will be 214m high and the other 204m and will be connected by three public bridges at different levels underground, at street level and in the sky.
The project includes the development of 600 residences and amenities such as a library and gallery in the hopes it will encourage people to socialise.
The top of the towers will be covered in gardens that will be accessible to residents.
The skyscraper will sit alongside the cloud project by MVRDV, which was criticised for mimicking the explosions at New York’s World Trade Center in 2001.