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.
2010
12/28/10, SO – IL selected for invited competition in Wulpen, Belgium
SO – IL has been selected with four other offices to propose a design for a community center in the small town of Wulpen along the Belgian coast. By building this new community center, the local authority aims to create sufficient space for local community life by providing, amongst other things, meeting rooms, a multipurpose hall, storage space, sanitary facilities etc. The result will be announced by the end of May 2011.
12/15/10, Finals of Brown-Forman Visiting Chair at UK
The Brown-Forman Urban Design Studio conducted its final review on December 11 in the Zirmed Skyloft in Louisville. The studio, in collaboration with Bill Weyland of Louisville-based CITY Properties, examined the opportunities and difficulties facing development in downtown Louisville through a series of site-specific proposals. The student proposals attempted to find the right mix of housing, retail and commercial that will foster economic growth and urban vitality without compromising the existing urban condition. The studio was taught by Brooklyn-based architects Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg of SO - IL, and Brown-Forman Teaching Fellow Andrew Owens. Link to images
12/15/10, 3D Movie, Pole Dance at yearly office party
During our 2010 office party guests were able to relive the installation made for the 2010 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program. Thanks to Carlton Brights amazing 3D projections we were back in the courtyard at PS1 playing with poles and balls for a night.
12/06/10, Exhibition,”To Be Determined” opens in Beijing
Until January 8, 2011 Studio-X Beijing hosts an exhibition of recent work which includes large models and a 3D projection of Pole Dance. See images of the opening here.
Free to the public. Studio-X, 46 Fangjia Hutong, Andingmen Inner Street, Beijing
10/10/10, Lowest point reached at Kukje
At 12 meter underground we reached today the lowest point of excavation for our Kukje projects in Seoul, South – Korea. Construction is on schedule for a fall 2011 opening.
09/20/10, Opening, Flockr Pavilion in Beijing
Ou Ning – the cultural agitator who directed the last Architecture and Urbanism Biennale in Shenzhen and Hong Kong – has curated “Get It Louder 2010″, a multidisciplinary festival, which just opened in Beijing. Among the huge number of concerts, exhibitions, events, performances, readings and film screenings, one cannot not notice a diaphanous and light architectural intervention, designed by SO-IL, a small pavilion that will host a series of events, a real showcase of the future creative China.
09/09/10, Exhibition, “Three Projects” opens in Lexington, KY
Exhibition opening in Lexington, KY at Institute 193. See more images here
06/26/10, Opening, Pole Dance at MoMA PS1
After 3 months of hard work by an amazing group of dedicated volunteers, Pole Dance opens at MoMA PS1
06/22/10, Florian wins prestigious Dutch award
Florian Idenburg is the 2010 winner of the Charlotte Köhler Prize, a prize awarded by the Prince Bernhard Culture Fund in the Netherlands for exceptional talent in the arts. Previous winners include Ben van Berkel, Joep van Lieshout and Wiel Arets. Watch the video here made by the award committee here (in Dutch)
05/14/10, Winner AIA NY Young Practices Award
With its third biennial New York portfolio competition, the New Practices Committee of the AIA New York Chapter is thrilled to recognize seven promising and innovative new architecture firms. These young firms—each has been founded since 2004—will be featured in an exhibition and programming at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, throughout the summer and fall, and will be featured in 2011 in an exhibition in São Paolo. In order to qualify for the competition, the practices had to be founded since 2004, and be located within the five boroughs. Sixty-five registrants entered, and a distinguished panel of jurors selected the competition’s winners. The jury members were: Toshiko Mori, Joe MacDonald, William Menking, Guy Nordenson, Galia Solomonoff.
05/10/10, SO-IL Nominated for Iakov Chernikov Prize
SO-IL has been nominated for the Iakov Chernikhov International Prize for Young Architects for young “masters of modern architecture”. An international jury selects every two years a list of candidates in the field for the best architectural concept (projects,designs, buildings, experimental works, architectural fantasies and sketches), that combines an innovative response to our time and simultaneously offer a professional challenge to the future. Age requirement is under 44 years. This years jury is headed by Stefano Boeri.
2009
11/22/09, Talk, Performa 09
Florian is part of a panel NOT FOR SALE, on ideal performance spaces at Performa 09 in NYC. Organized by Performa Curator Defne Ayas. Coordination support by Griffin Frazen.
11/13/09, Book Launch, “Learning from Japan”
Between 6:00 PM and 8:00 PM Princeton University hosts the launch of “Learning from Japan” at Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo, NYC. The book is edited by Florian Idenburg and contains contributions by Kazuyo Sejima, Sou Fujimoto, Sanford Kwinter, Stan Allen and Iwan Baan. Designed by Geoff Han and published by Lars Mueller.
10/17/09, Talk with Qingyun Ma at LA Forum
LA Forum hosts a gallery talk for our current exhibition Future Archeology.
JING LIU / FLORIAN IDENBURG
In conversation with QINGYUN MA.
Oct 17, 12:00 PM
Jing Liu and Florian Idenburg are the principals of SO-IL | Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu
Qingyun Ma is the principal of MADA S.P.A.M. and the dean of the USC school of architecture.
09/20/09, Press, NY Mag – The Cubicle Is the New Loft
SO-IL provides ideas for New York Magazine’s challenge to imagine what to do with a the large amount of disused office buildings. “What if some smart landlord decides to rent his office space to low-income artists, and turn a blind eye to those who spend the night? What if those tenants start appropriating the visual language of the office space (cubicles, carpets, fluorescent lighting) in ways that became, well, inhabitable? ”
09/14/09, Competition Finalist for UPto35 Student housing competition in Athens, Greece
SO-IL is selected as one of five finalists with their scheme “Party Wall” for a student housing competition in Athens, Greece. OLIAROS, a young property development company, issued a call for architects up to 35 years old to submit proposals for the design and construction of a model, affordable student housing complex in Kerameikos and Metaxourgeio (KM), an area in the historic centre of Athens, Greece. The jury consists of Bjarke Ingels, Andreas Kourkoulas, Marcel Meili, Iasson Tsakonas, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis, and Elia Zenghelis.
05/17/09, Talk, HomeRoom
Florian in ‘face off’ with Swiss architect Peter Sigrist, of Mueller Sigrist, at HomeRoom – a salon for debate.
Peter Sigrist of Müller Sigrist Architects (Zurich), and Florian Idenburg of Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (Brooklyn), both successful young architects straddling practice and academia, will battle it out over a discussion on current trends of architectural practice, their projections on post-crisis design agency, and their trans-Atlantic differences.
see the conversation here
02/12/09, Exhibition, Contemplating the Void at the Guggenheim Museum
SO – IL is one the the selected architects part of Contemplating the Void at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. For the building’s 50th anniversary, the Guggenheim Museum invited nearly two hundred artists, architects, and designers to imagine their dream interventions in the space for the exhibition Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum. Organized by Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, and David van der Leer, Assistant Curator for Architecture and Design, the exhibition featured renderings of visionary projects in a salon-style installation.
