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48. Spiky
Beijing, China, 2013
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47. Grand Canopy
Davis, California, 2013
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46. Light and Air
Bristol, UK, 2013
Work

45. tiNY
New York, USA, 2013
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44. Workspheres
2013
Reflect

The office is no more. We work anywhere, anytime. We don’t even think we are working, we don’t really have professions any longer – just different things we do, sometimes alone, sometimes with others we are connected to, through a myriad of mutating platforms and dynamic structures. We meet, tweet and charette in, lounges, clubs, […]

43. Z33 House for Contemporary Art
Hasselt, Belgium, 2013
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42. Frieze Art Fair NYC
New York, 2012
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41. Kukje Art Center
Seoul, South Korea, 2012
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40. Focusing in the fog
2012
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Our train cuts through a desaturated dawn. Hazy, fleeting images of a carefully constructed landscape flash by in various shades of gray. The track runs perfectly parallel to an unswerving canal. Perpendicular to this connective corridor, endless rows of similar trees rhythmically emerge out of the thick of the mist. More and

39. Logan
New York, 2012
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38. Transhistoria
Jackson Heights, Queens, 2012
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Jackson Heights in the center of Queens is a quintessential melting pot. With 138 languages spoken and a community of people from around the world, the borough is considered one of the most diverse neighborhoods in New York. How does one find calm and solitude in such multifarious environment? Largely with roots

37. Urban Fabrics
City of Manama, 2012
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36. Tricolonnade
Shenzhen, China, 2011
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35. Antwerp Province Hall
Antwerp, Belgium, 2011
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34. Full Circle
2011
Reflect

It is a seminal year for architecture in America. Minoru Yamasaki completes the Twin Towers, the tallest buildings in the world. Louis Kahn delivers a canonical pair as well - the Phillips Exeter Academy Library and the Kimbell Art Museum. Yale gets its independent Architecture School, located in a bush-hammered concrete

33. Shanghai Meicang Art District
Shanghai, China, 2011
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32. Pollination
Chengdu, China, 2011
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31. Linked
Wulpen, Belgium, 2011
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30. Meissen
Amersfoort, The Netherlands, 2011
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29. Costa House
Lexington, KY, 2011
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28. Abstainability
2011
Reflect

In a brief moment of anxiety, not uncommon in our current role of “Promising Architects,” a condition that allows for the quick recalibration of one’s own position before the “show is on,” I felt we should consider “broadening our appeal.” How can our firm, SO – IL, become more attractive to more clients now that […]

27. Sinfonia Varsovia
Warsaw, Poland, 2010
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26. Flockr
Beijing, China, 2010
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25. Voracious Fast
2010
Reflect

Now that we have entered a phase of involuntary fasting, any anxiety that the architect is destined to turn into the marginalized hunger artist of our time, soon to be replaced by an omnivorous beast – be it a construction consortium, plan-buro or engineering mammoth - seems foolish...

24. In Bloom
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2010
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23. The house that used to fly
2010
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As the Narita Express, the train between airport and city, dips under the Sumidagawa River on its journey toward Tokyo Station, it passes a monstrous looking structure; a colossal spaceship on massive piers, festooned with a demonic oculus and lined with pulsing red lights...

22. Pole Dance
2010
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21. XYZ Dance and Music Center
The Hague, The Netherlands, 2010
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20. Relations
2009
Reflect

Oedipus and Kronos never reached Japan. For in this country it is not inevitable that a young architect instantaneously commits patricide upon leaving his master, nor is it given for a master to impair his “renegade’s” prospects.

19. Zenith Nadir
2009
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18. Party Wall 1&2
2009
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17. Open Fort
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2009
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16. Conversation with Ivan Chermayeff
2009
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After going through the entire process of designing his house with SO-IL, Ivan Chermayeff suffered some of the misfortunes of the recent financial crisis. This conversation explores his hopes for the house, and his sentiments after choosing to not proceed with the project.

15. Brittle Blocks
Maastricht, the Netherlands, 2009
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14. Future Archeology
2009
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13. Learning from Japan
2008
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Besides the release of Ready to Die by the Notorious B.I.G. (‘94) and SMLXL by Rem Koolhaas (‘95), few events during my student years impacted my development as an architect more than ...

12. Wedding Chapel
2008
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11. Derek Lam Atelier
2008
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10. Chermayeff House
2008
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9. Private Museum
The Netherlands, 2008
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8. Cutting Fabric
2008
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The opening of a new Yoji Yamamoto boutique in Manhattan early February went almost unnoticed by the progressively more architecturally minded New York public...

7. Sunnyside Up!
Queens, New York, 2008
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6. The Culture of Decongestion
2008
Reflect

Be it well documented examples as Detroit and the eastern part of Germany, or lesser known cases elsewhere, vast regions in the world are being left abandoned as a result of globalization, natural disasters and demographic trends. This is not a new phenomenon; however...

5. Nursery School
Prato, Italy, 2008
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4. Beautiful Rough
2007
Reflect

Domus #909: The New Museum of Contemporary Art opened its new building in downtown Manhattan to the public in early December. The roughly 6000m{2}, eight-story structure of loosely stacked boxes provides the institution a perfect platform for the advancement of new ideas, in a time and place where they [...]

3. Smoke and Mirrors
Manhattan, New York, 2008
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2. New Sobriety
2002
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A recent interest has developed in the phenomenology of diagrams in mathematics, cognitive science, and architectural theory. Traditionally, the diagram is used as a rational tool for analysis and design in these fields, as an abstract representation of a more complex system. [...]

1. Tokyo Park
1998
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03/06/14, SO – IL breaks ground on the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis

02/16/14, Blueprint Exhibition Opens at KAdE

12/18/13, SO – IL Shortlisted for Arts Cluster in Arnhem, NL

11/12/13, SO – IL completes new installation “Spiky”

11/01/13, SO – IL selected to design arts incubator at New Museum

09/13/13, Lectures, Fall 2013

05/01/13, SO – IL wins competition for UC Davis Art Museum!!!

02/13/13, Upcoming lectures

02/12/13, SO – IL winner Emerging Voices 2013

01/17/13, Kukje nominated for DESIGNS OF THE YEAR 2013

01/15/13, SO – IL is Best Firm Making Its Debut in Record

12/03/12, SO – IL selected as finalist for UC Davis Art Museum

12/03/12, NEWS NEWS NEWS

11/11/12, Benetton chooses SO – IL

10/20/12, Kukje selected as finalist in 2012 Innovation by Design Awards

06/05/12, Newsletter #4

05/15/12, Domus features SO – IL

05/04/12, Frieze Art Fair NYC opens to the public

04/02/12, Kukje Gallery opens to the public

03/16/12, Shortlisted for Z33 museum extension

03/16/12, Financial Times Profile

03/16/12, NEWS!!!

03/16/12, Logan wins AIA Award

12/16/11, 2nd place in Antwerp Province Hall competition

10/24/11, Chengdu Biennale opens

10/07/11, Kukje mock-up complete

09/28/11, SO – IL reveals design for a community center in Wulpen, Belgium

07/31/11, Kukje Gallery reaches highest point

05/20/11, SO – IL exhibition in KAdE, Amersfoort, NL

05/18/11, SO – IL to design Frieze NY

05/03/11, SO – IL selected for prestigious design competition in Antwerp

04/07/11, Talk: Domus @ Milan Furniture Fair

03/09/11, Exhibition: BROODWORK | It’s About Time

03/03/11, Winner AIANY 2011 Design Award

02/25/11, TV: Architecturen

01/11/11, Columbia GSAPP 2/2/2011 lecture

01/11/11, Learning from Japan in top 10 reads of re:place Magazine

12/28/10, SO – IL selected for invited competition in Wulpen, Belgium

12/15/10, Finals of Brown-Forman Visiting Chair at UK

12/15/10, 3D Movie, Pole Dance at yearly office party

12/06/10, Exhibition,”To Be Determined” opens in Beijing

10/10/10, Lowest point reached at Kukje

09/20/10, Opening, Flockr Pavilion in Beijing

09/09/10, Exhibition, “Three Projects” opens in Lexington, KY

06/26/10, Opening, Pole Dance at MoMA PS1

06/22/10, Florian wins prestigious Dutch award

05/14/10, Winner AIA NY Young Practices Award

05/10/10, SO-IL Nominated for Iakov Chernikov Prize

11/22/09, Talk, Performa 09

11/13/09, Book Launch, “Learning from Japan”

10/17/09, Talk with Qingyun Ma at LA Forum

09/20/09, Press, NY Mag – The Cubicle Is the New Loft

09/14/09, Competition Finalist for UPto35 Student housing competition in Athens, Greece

05/17/09, Talk, HomeRoom

02/12/09, Exhibition, Contemplating the Void at the Guggenheim Museum

07/25/08, SO – IL OFFICE LTD. established in NY