Six years after its completion, the Big Dig House is still receiving much attention. Instead of the initial ‘wow factor’ of the house however, the project is being looked at as a new way of thinking: It is an example of how we can salvage material that typically goes into our waste stream. As ‘down-cycling’ […]
HBNY was featured in Ann Thorpe’s new book Architecture & Design vs. Consumerism: How Design Activism Confronts Growth. Author of the acclaimed Designers’ Atlas of Sustainability, Thorpe challenges the mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls but rather are the biggest obstacles to real sustainability. “Our contemporary paradox finds us relying for our well […]
Thanks to Simon Ostheimer for featuring us in the April/May issue of Surface Asia in his story, ‘Local Network.’ LOCAL NETWORK Korean-American architects Jinhee Park and John Hong use an innovative global strategy to tap into the “New Asia” Park and Hong are the Korean-American founders of SsD, a firm that is at the forefront […]
Park and Hong's new book, Convergent Flux: Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in Korea has been published by Birkhäuser and the Harvard GSD. Please join us for the book launch at the Van Alen Institute or at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Van Alen Event When: Thursday, 25 April, 630pm Where: Van Alen Institute, 30 […]
In a ceremony earlier this year, 'Songpa Micro-Housing' in Seoul, Korea was awarded a 2012 Unbuilt Architecture Award from the BSA/AIA. Recently approved by the city for construction, the new building leverages zoning constraints to create 'tapioca space' around the units: Like the ambiguous gel around a tapioca pearl, a soft intersection between public/private and […]
John Hong’s article, ‘Simulating Interdependent Complexity: Beyond Prescriptive Zoning,’ was published in Ecological Urban Architecture. The article outlines applications for Hong’s parametric urban design tool developed at the Harvard GSD under a Harvard Real Estate Academic Initiative Grant. By using computation to leverage performance based zoning standards instead of prescriptive rules, the tool demonstrates that […]
SsD teamed with MWBa and was shortlisted for the Cade Museum in Gainesville Florida. As the needs of museums are changing, the design for the Cade shifts the visitors' role from the passive to the active tense. The interlocking galleries give individuals the freedom to create their own itineraries and experiences. While providing dynamic and […]
Before clearing our 10th birthday (June this year), one of our wishes has come true: We are one of ten firms selected internationally for Architectural Record's Design Vanguard. "Architectural Record’s annual Design Vanguard issue brings together the architects who are already doing some of the most innovative work in the field and will lead the […]
…excuse us as we catch up with our news… Last July, Jinhee Park along with Martina Decker and Gordin Gill juried Architect Magazine’s 2012 R+D Awards. The 6th annual competition celebrates innovative research that can potentially produce game-changing results. With the construction industry still at a crawl, the jury was interested in solutions for real-world […]
Last year we put on a ‘mini’ version of the Covergent Flux: Korea exhibit at the Korea Society in New York and we finally got around to putting the images on our website (yes, we are very behind on updates which thankfully means we’re busy with projects!). The contents were originally was shown at the […]
The Chicago Athenaeum, together with The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, has announced the winners of its 2012 American Architecture Awards. These are among the field’s most prestigious awards, honoring the best of new design in American architecture. We are privileged to announce the White Block Gallery was awarded this year […]
Jinhee Park and John Hong will be lecturing at Tulane School of Architecture. The event is co-sponsored by the AIA New Orleans. A special thanks to Dean Kenneth Schwartz and Tulane for the invitation and hospitality. The event is free and open to the public. Monday 22 October at 6pm Thomson Hall, Room 201 Tulane […]
