Construction is underway on the Digital Media City tower by SOM. The tower will be the tallest in East Asia when completed in 2014. The tower utilizes several sustainable strategies. First, I would applaud it for being mixed-use and containing a hotel, offices, retail, and residential units. At 133 stories there should be space for all this program. The supertall tower takes advantage of the ability of the building form to create a stack effect.
The turbines at the top of the tower assist in reducing the energy load of the building along with the shading photovoltaic louvers on the facade. The "crown" also collects natural light, which is free. One inventive idea is the green outdoor observation deck (look right below the crown). This is supposed to naturally clean the make-up air that the building will take in. A clever idea, I am curiuos to how effective this really is. I count three wind turbines that look like they are more of a gesture than really effective...unless that spire is a stylized helical wind turbine?
There is even a little green roof at the base, wonderful.
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