The glazing at White Block Gallery is nearing completion. We are very excited about our custom fritted glass pattern which encloses all of the transparent parts of the building. Seemingly simple, the gradation works in multiple different ways: It shades the space during the warmer summer months while allowing in the low winter sun for passive heating. It also […]
The first of the Clover Restaurants is open at Harvard Square at 7 Holyoke. Not only was it a privilege collaborating with Clover on a new concept for fast food, it was also a privilege working in the Holyoke Center, the Harvard owned building designed by Josep Lluís Sert. Our approach was to combine the […]
This is the final week of the exhibit, Convergent Flux: Korea at the Korea Society, an interactive exhibition on contemporary Korean architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design first shown at the Harvard GSD, curated by Jinhee Park and John Hong. Please feel free to visit the gallery at: 950 3rd Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10022. We will keep you posted on the […]
We started the New Years at Heyri by unwrapping what seemed like a giant, building-sized present: Due to the harshest winter in Korea in 30 years, the Gallery White Block has been completely covered for the last 6 weeks and work has been delayed. And just like opening a holiday gift we were at first incredulous, eager and […]
The Big Dig House was recently featured in Jonathan Bell's and Ellie Stathaki's The New Modern House: Redefining Functionalism.
In terms of preservation strategies, armories are truly a difficult urban building type. Once a place for military training, they are now becoming almost wholly obsolete: Their vast interior drill hall and their monumental footprint makes them difficult to convert to any other urban program including housing. Meanwhile, many of them appear on highly restrictive state or national historic registers. […]
The Braver House is an alternative for older suburbs where houses are being built to the setback line creating buildings much too big for their lots. Instead we designed a small footprint house but built a screen to the maximum setback line. This allows indoor spaces to extend to the exterior and also allows us to […]
Please join us for the opening reception and roundtable for the NY installation of the exhibit, Convergent Flux, Korea first shown at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Opening Reception and Panel Discussion Panel: Taewook Cha, Felipe Correa, Mark Rakatansky, and Soo-In Yang, moderated by Jinhee Park and John Hong Tuesday, December 7, 2010 6:00 […]
The structural frame for the White Block Gallery has recently been completed. Matt Johnson of SGH helped us design a 'wall-umn' system (wall + column) so that the interior spaces are free of columnar obstructions giving the curators more spatial opportunities to display art and media. Distributing the load to many smaller columns rather than a […]
SsD is one of 5 teams shortlisted for the BSA headquarters competition in Boston. It was an intense period of mutliple deadlines and we are proud to have made it to the final round. After Jinhee and John gave an initial presentation to the jury, Peter Ortner presented the scheme to a larger audience at BuildBoston. A special thanks to […]
The bean residence is a 2400 sf gut renovation in Manhattan. The existing layout fragmented public areas and did not take advantage of natural light. Through the reconfiguration of the plan and introducing a restrained palette of materials, underutilized spaces become connective zones. Where the deep floorplate limited the amount of daylight, LED lighting in conjunction […]
The Korea Society, the Architectural League of NY, and SsD welcome Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi to discuss their winning master plan and concept design for Taekwondo Park in Muju, Korea. Jinhee Park and John Hong will moderate a discussion after the lecture which is part of a series of disucssions leading up the the opening of […]
