Scheme is second for South Korean industrial giant
A Foster & Partners-designed headquarters building for South Korean tyre manufacturer Hankook has opened in Seoul.
The 10-storey Hankook Technoplex is the second office building the practice has designed for the firm following the 2016 opening of the Hankook Technodrome, an R&D centre in Daejeon.
The new building, located in Pangyo on the outskirts of the South Korean capital, will house Hankook鈥檚 offices and its subsidiaries alongside a business centre featuring a 175-seat auditorium.
Taking design cues from its predecessor, its open-plan floor plates spiral around a vast central atrium beneath a circular lantern on the roof.
Foster & Partners partner Iwan Jones said the office builds on the success of the earlier R&D centre and creates 鈥渢wo distinctly different buildings bound together by key themes that are common to both buildings鈥�.
Staff will enter the Technoplex by ascending an escalator through an art installation which uses light volumes to mimic the dappled shadows of a tree canopy, emerging into a workplace filled with indoor trees and floor to ceiling greenery.
It is the latest in a string of Foster & Partners projects to open in the Far East, following the opening of a spherical Apple store in Singapore last month and the opening of two further Apple stores in Bangkok and Beijing in August.
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