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Photographed at Seoul, Jongno in June 2022
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The upper floors of Jongno Tower - one of Seoul's most recognizable skyscrapers - thrust upward against a vivid summer sky of cerulean blue dotted with small cumulus clouds. The building's distinctive exoskeletal structure of white steel trusses wraps around its glass curtain wall in a lattice pattern that becomes more open near the top, where a large circular observation deck or sky garden creates an iconic crown that has defined the Jongno skyline since the tower's completion in 1999. The alternating horizontal bands of tinted glass and white steel create a rhythmic visual pattern that emphasizes the tower's height, each floor clearly delineated in a way that gives the facade a textbook-like clarity of structural expression. Shot from a low angle that eliminates the surrounding streetscape entirely, the composition reduces Seoul to a pure dialogue between architecture and sky, the kind of upward gaze that only happens when you stand directly beneath a tall building and let the vertical lines pull your eye toward the clouds. The summer light is strong and direct, casting defined shadows within the structural framework and making the white steel almost blinding against the deep blue sky.