ERa

The competition to design a corporate headquarters for the YTN media corporation was pivotal for both company and the new urban context of the site. YTN headquarters is one of several pilot projects for the new ‘digital media city’ in Seoul’s expanding western urban edge

 

The project evolved around programmed void spaces within a high-rise tower configuration. ‘Voids’ displace what are typical service and elevator cores, forming new public zones within the tower. Light and air become standards in spaces usually fed entirely of artificial service. The void is programmed vertically as public amenity accessible to visitors and workers 

 

Broadcast studios and commercial tenants round out the towers private functions. 

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COLLABORATORS

Eric Reeder

STUDIO hANd (Seoul)/ Junsung Kim

ARUP structural / mechanical engineers

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