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Tour du Midi


Height: 171m
Location: Brussels
Year: 1967
Tour du Midi

Northeast Asia Trade Tower


Height: 305m
Location: Songdo
Year: 2010
Northeast Asia Trade Tower

Tour du Midi vs Northeast Asia Trade Tower


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Tour du Midi

Tour du Midi

Height

171m
Floors38
Year1967
CityBrussels

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The Tour du Midi (French) or Zuidertoren (Dutch), both meaning South Tower, is a 38-storey, 148 m (486 ft) skyscraper built between 1962 and 1967 in Brussels, Belgium. The tower is the tallest building in Belgium, and was the tallest in the European Economic Community when it was built until it was surpassed by Tour Montparnasse in Paris in 1972.



Tour du Midi stands adjacent to Brussels-South railway station. The building's facade was reclad in 1995-1996 with unitised glass panels using double glass solarbel silver, and it can accommodate about 2,500 office workers. It was built for the Belgian Pensions Administration, which occupies it now.

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Northeast Asia Trade Tower

Northeast Asia Trade Tower

Height

305m
Floors68
Year2010
CitySongdo

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<p>The Posco Tower-Songdo or Northeast Asia Trade Tower (Korean: ?????-??) is a skyscraper at Songdo International City, the world's most expensive private real estate project in the Incheon Free Economic Zone, South Korea. </p>The 305-metre (1,001 feet ) building is now South Korea's fourth tallest, and has 68 flooring. It surpassed the previous record-holder, Samsung Tower Palace 3 -- Tower G in Seoul, when it. Although completed in 2011, the completion of its interior was postponed due to financial complications during a recession.The construction was intended to be a landmark of the Songdo International Business District that was assembled on unused land along the waterfront near Incheon. It includes 19 floors of class A office space, South Korea's tallest observatory on a luxury resort, the 65th-floor residences, and retail shops. The column-free flooring include an office lobby at ground level with Vermont slate stone walls and French limestone flooring.

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