Designed by U.S.-based GDS Architects, the glass-encased Tower Infinity will top out at 450 meters and have the third highest observation deck in the world. The project is backed by Korea Land & Housing Corporation, a state-owned land and public housing developer.
The invisibility illusion will be achieved with a high-tech LED facade system that uses a series of cameras placed at three different heights on six different sides of the building to capture real-time images of the surroundings. Three other sections, each filled with 500 rows of LED screens, will project the individual digital images.
According to GDS, managers will be able to alter the level of power used and give the building different levels of invisibility.
The building is due for completion in 2014 and will be used primarily for activities. It will include a theme park, a movie theater, a roller coaster, a water park and numerous food and beverage outlets, restaurants and an observation deck positioned at a height of 392 metres.
When completed, it will come in sixth on the list of the world's highest towers, behind Tokyo SkyTree, Guangzhou's CantonTower, Toronto's CN Tower, Moscow's Ostankino Tower and Shanghai's Oriental Pearl.
International visitors to Seoul will have no trouble seeing it – or not, as the case may be – when they arrive in South Korea since the architects behind the project, American firm GDS, are building Tower Infinity near the capital’s Incheon International Airport.
Edited from CNN and Telegraph
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