2013
05/01/13, SO – IL wins competition for UC Davis Art Museum!!!
SO – IL wins competition for UC Davis Art Museum!!!
02/13/13, Upcoming lectures
Feb 18 Santo Domingo (DR)
Feb 25 Maryland (MICA)
March 7 Cooper Union, NY (Emerging Voices)
March 27 The Boston Architectural College
April 11 Portland, MN (Architalx)
May 23 Arnhem, Netherlands
02/12/13, SO – IL winner Emerging Voices 2013
01/17/13, Kukje nominated for DESIGNS OF THE YEAR 2013
Our design for Kukje Gallery has been nominated for DESIGNS OF THE YEAR 2013 in the category Architecture by the Design Museum in London and will be on display at the museum from March 20 till July 7.
01/15/13, SO – IL is Best Firm Making Its Debut in Record
Architectural Record selected SO – IL as ‘Best Firm Making Its Debut in Record’ for Editor’s Picks: Best Architecture of 2012.
2012
12/03/12, SO – IL selected as finalist for UC Davis Art Museum
The University of California at Davis is tapping three innovative architect-contractor teams to compete in the creation of a design for the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. SO – IL has partnered with Whiting Turner and BCJ and has been selected as one of three finalists. press release
11/11/12, Benetton chooses SO – IL
Benetton selected SO – IL to design their new flagship store on 5th Avenue.
10/20/12, Kukje selected as finalist in 2012 Innovation by Design Awards
Kukje Gallery has been selected as a finalist in the Spaces category in Fast Company’s 2012 Innovation By Design Awards.
05/04/12, Frieze Art Fair NYC opens to the public
Friday May 4th at 12:00 pm the Frieze Art Fair in NYC opens to the public. Design by SO – IL.
04/02/12, Kukje Gallery opens to the public
Thursday April 5th at 17:00 Kukje Gallery opens the SO – IL designed gallery space with a Paul McCarthy show.
03/16/12, Shortlisted for Z33 museum extension
SO – IL is thrilled to be shortlisted as one of five teams to compete for the renovation and extension of Z33 - the pioneering house for contemporary art in Hasselt, Belgium. (z33.be)
03/16/12, Financial Times Profile
The Financial Times honored us with a feature covering Frieze and Kukje Gallery, which will open April 4th.
03/16/12, Logan wins AIA Award
SO – IL received the 2012 AIA NY Honors Award in the Interiors category for a work space designed for production company Logan consisting of two 65-foot continuous work tables and support spaces.
2011
12/16/11, 2nd place in Antwerp Province Hall competition
SO – IL became second in an invited competition for the new province hall of Antwerp.
10/07/11, Kukje mock-up complete
09/28/11, SO – IL reveals design for a community center in Wulpen, Belgium
SO – IL was awarded the first prize in an Open Oproep (Open Call) by the Flemish Government Architect to design an 500 m2 community center for a small village in Flemish-speaking Belgium. Out of 5 designs, SO – IL’s solution was considered the most appropriate. Predestined to be demolished, SO – IL proposes to salvage an existing school, restructure it and expand upon it to form a gathering space for the multi-generational community. SO – IL has partnered with local architect Bureau Bouwtechniek from Antwerp and consultants Util for structure and Igenium for installations. The building is slated for completion in 2013.
07/31/11, Kukje Gallery reaches highest point
After 12 months of construction the building is really taking shape and the skin made out of 400.000 stainless steel rings is in production.
05/20/11, SO – IL exhibition in KAdE, Amersfoort, NL
During the summer of 2011 (May 28 – Aug 28), de KAdE in Amersfoort will host an extensive overview of our work. The show will take place concurrent to Meissen | SO – IL, a show for which we designed the exhibition environment.
05/18/11, SO – IL to design Frieze NY
SO – IL has been selected to design the Frieze Art Fair, which will take place in New York 3–6 May 2012. The New York fair will take a similar approach to that which has made Frieze Art Fair one of the world’s most influential contemporary art fairs, housed in a bespoke structure and located in a unique setting. Frieze New York will be held in Randall’s Island Park, Manhattan, overlooking the East River.
05/03/11, SO – IL selected for prestigious design competition in Antwerp
SO – IL has been shortlisted for a design competition for the governmental offices of the province of Antwerp, Belgium. This $100 million project will house assembly rooms, a conference center and several offices. SO – IL will collaborate with West 8 urban design and landscape architecture and Bureau Bouwtechniek as associate architect.
04/07/11, Talk: Domus @ Milan Furniture Fair
SO – IL is part of the Urban Futures Space at the Salone 2011. Domus Urban Futures will host leading designers, architects and critics to discuss future scenarios and relevant issues for the design world, from a broadcasting station and a hub of debate and discourse in Via Tortona 31
DEBATE Colour, Art, Urbanism
Friday April 15th, 7 – 8:30 pm
Haas&Hahn (Jeroen Koolhaas, Dre Urhahn)
Jan Edler (realities:united)
Florian Idenburg (SO – IL)
moderator
Nikolaus Hirsch (director, Städelschule Frankfurt)
03/09/11, Exhibition: BROODWORK | It’s About Time
SO – IL is part of the exhibition BROODWORK : It’s About Time, to be held April 30 – June 11, 2011 at Ben Maltz Gallery.
This exhibition is a project of BROODWORK, the cross-disciplinary inquiry surrounding the integration of creative practice and family life founded by It’s About Time curators architect Iris Anna Regn and artist Rebecca Niederlander. The curators defined, named and now investigate the practices and output of this previously unspoken vanguard community. For this project, the lens is focused on Time, and presents themes such as Juncture, Momentum, Occasion, and Transference through a wide range of works from the fields.
02/25/11, TV: Architecturen
SO – IL featured in Architecturen at AVRO Kunstuur (in Dutch). In this series the program makers of the AVRO look at the role of architecture during the economic crisis. SO – IL is featured as one of the three young Dutch firms that is doing well despite the downturn.
01/11/11, Columbia GSAPP 2/2/2011 lecture
After our lecture in the summer of 2009, which you can download here, we return to lecture in the Wood Auditorium at Columbia University in the spring of 2011. Our lecture, “to be determined” focusses on an interest in open works and processes.
2 / 2 / 2011, 6:00 PM, Wood Auditorium, Columbia University
01/11/11, Learning from Japan in top 10 reads of re:place Magazine
re:place Magazine has selected Learning from Japan, the book edited by Florian Idenburg in its top 10 list of reads for 2010. The online magazine states: In the end, the book stands as much as a monograph of the SANAA project and its design philosophy as a depiction of these three Tokyo-based design studios.
