SK Telecom Headquarters – Main Lobby
A unique project and unique opportunity. Eric Pepa teamed up with award winning designer and Professor of Architecture, Ben Suzuki and CKC Architects in South Korea, to design the lobby of the new corporate headquarters for SK Telecom, South Korea’s communications service provider. Designed within their new 23 story tower (also designed by Suzuki through an international competition), the lobby evokes swiftness, energy and high technology through its glistening metallic walls, various colored marble and granite flooring, luminescent elevator cores and mahogany reception counters. The new lobby ties together three stories of circulation including elevators, escalators, cantilevered overlooks, glass canopies, overlapping ceilings and lighting in a brilliant interweaving of contemporary design. This project pushed all parties to the limit- an extremely high-standard client on an intensely short schedule, together with the challenges of international time differences and language barriers left an indelible mark.