Amorepacific Headquarters Seoul, Korean Office Building Design, Architecture Images
Amorepacific Headquarters Seoul Building
Head Office Building Development in South Korea ? design by David Chipperfield Architects
17 Jun 2018
Amorepacific Headquarters Seoul Building
Architects: David Chipperfield Architects
Location: Seoul, Korea
Completion of Amorepacific headquarters, Seoul, South Korea
Following eight years of design and construction, the completion of the new headquarters for Amorepacific, the largest Korean beauty company, was marked on 15 June with an official ceremony in Seoul, South Korea.
The new building is situated in the district of Yongsan-gu, between the site of a spacious public park currently under development, and a business district of high-rise towers.
The cube-shaped volume contains a total of 30 floors and a gross floor area of 216,000 square metres. A central inner courtyard and three large openings in the façade, each containing a garden, break up the compact form, making the building permeable to the city and allowing air and daylight to filter into its depths.
From the very start, the design for the new headquarters building was driven by the notion that the quality of our cities does not depend on individual buildings alone, but on the contribution they make to the common and social space of the city. The completed building combines under one roof an efficient company headquarters together with diverse public facilities, including a museum, a la...