As part of the urban planning team, Towers|Golde designed the 275 acres of open space and canals that will define the quality of life in this new world-class ‘intelligent’ city, a new Free Economic Zone being constructed just a five mile bridge away from the second largest airport in the world. The urban fabric is interwoven with a hierarchical system of canals and streetscapes which serve ecological as well as aesthetic and social purpose.

T|G developed the schematic design of the 120-acre Central Park which links the city’s governmental, cultural and convention facilities.  Its highly articulated forms are an abstracted distillation of the natural Korean landscape and represent its varied ecological systems and native flora from mountain ridge to seashore.

T|G also planned and designed a 25 acre mixed use superblock, all of it a roof deck development over a below-grade parking garage.  The design divided the block into four quadrants, each with distinctive qualities reflecting the symbols and materials that Koreans traditionally associate with each of the four seasons.  The whole is unified by a central pedestrian ‘canal’ zone culminating in a spillway projecting into the surrounding streetscape.

New Songdo City is a pilot project for the LEED for Neighborhood Development program.