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Formation Association’s Ivanhoe Vista House is out now in Architectural Record. Click here to read all about how, “The home offers a proscenium for thinking about the relationship between built space and local ecology,” says Formation Association's co-founder John K Chan. Photo by Stephen Schauer.

Worrell Yeung’s Springs Artist Studio has made its debut in T Magazine. Situated within a historic artist enclave in the hamlet of the Springs on the South Fork of Long Island, the two story studio for a creative couple features a 360 degree panorama of four-foot-tall ribbon windows that gaze out into dense tree canopies. “We wanted to create this experience of being perched in the trees; a retreat for working,” says Worrell Yeung Co-Founder and Principal, Jejon Yeung. “The studio is private, protected from direct sunlight, and deeply connected to the surrounding nature and landscape.” Click here or pick up a copy of T Magazine's latest print issue to read more about the project. Photo by Angela Hau.

Formation Association’s design for Council_St is out now in Wallpaper*. Situated in Los Angeles' Historic Filipinotown, the garage turned artist studio and exhibition space reimagines vernacular craftsmanship. Clad in asphalt shingles, the building appears as a monolith and echoes the neighborhood’s myriad shingled, craftsman homes. “The project's multiple identities, unassuming materiality yet remarkable presence” writes Nana Ama Owusu-Ansah, embodies “Formation Association’s practice of ‘architecture as a cultural project transforming our expectations of the built environment’.” Click here to read more. Photo by Janna Ireland.

Alda Ly Architecture’s designs for Tia’s new SoHo and Williamsburgs locations are featured in The Architect’s Newspaper’s April print issue. ALA used vibrant colors and bold architectural geometries to translate Tia’s brand identity and graphic language into dynamic physical environments. ⁠Writes Kristine Klein: “ALA’s experience designing retail and hospitality projects is evident in the small details, including wardrobes in exam rooms where patients can store their belongings, shelving for displaying products, and staff lounges imbued with a residential flair.” Click here to read more. Photo by Reid Rolls.

Worrell Yeung’s design and renovation of a collection of new and existing buildings in Upstate New York was recently featured in Dezeen. The three buildings iterate on the archetypal gabled form of the American barn while also distinguishing themselves with varying approaches to cladding and material detail. "We didn't want a monotonous experience of moving from one dark-clad building to the next," says Worrell Yeung’s co-founder Jejon Yeung. "As a whole, we read the collection of buildings as siblings that are closely related—like cousins." Click here to read more about how this project continues the studio’s interest in expressing architectural volume through a simplification of elements. Photo by Naho Kubota.

Alda Ly Architecture’s collaboration with HBF + HBF Textiles brought together two like minded companies for the design of HBF’s NYC Showroom. "This was an opportunity for us to work with another company that really understands how important it is to create spaces that are both beautiful and inclusive," says ALA’s Founder and Principal, Alda Ly. ALA layered a vibrant hospitality-minded approach to create a modern oasis that fosters dynamic connection and wellness and incorporates unique planning scenarios to showcase HBF’s portfolio of products. ⁠Photo by Pippa Drummond.

Studio J. Jih and Figure’s Hairpin House is featured on the cover of WABISABI's March/April 2023 Issue No. 8. The home’s geometric complexity and constraints related to the tight building envelope lead to a reimagined staircase to cascades obliquely through the four-story rowhouse, taking on the winding nature of the mountain road as inspiration and establishing the home’s material palette. Click here to find out how the studios integrated their Eastern cultural background into the home’s design and merged the modern with the ancient. Photo by James Leng.

Frederick Tang Architecture recently completed the exhibition design for artist Adam Pendleton’s largest presentation of new work to date, "Blackness, White, and Light". The design features three triangular pavilions and two rectangular alcoves that house Pendleton's art and video works. Constructed from simple framing and sheetrock sheathing, the triangular volumes do not extend to the ceiling as a way to create an object within the space. FTA coated both the interiors and exteriors of each volume in black paint. A long hallway into each pavilion helps to create a light seal and sound isolation was added within the framing to damper sound transfer in and out of each volume. This projects represents an ongoing collaboration between FTA and Pendleton. "Blackness, White, and Light" is on view at Mumok, Vienna through January 7, 2024.⁠ Photo by Timothy Brennan.

House 5 in Los Angeles designed by The Los Angeles Design Group for This by That co-founder Danielle Rago and her family, makes its cover debut on Dwell magazine’s March 2023 print issue. The design cleverly balances wishes with city constraints and makes use of common everyday materials that are quintessentially LA. In the end, The LADG came up with a plan that combines open space for entertaining and privacy, while also seamlessly bringing the outdoors in. Click here or pick up a print issue to find out how a pole ended up in the pool. Photo by Marten Elder.

Alda Ly Architecture’s ability to bring its hospitality background to its design for health care is the subject of Metropolis’ latest Viewpoint feature. “Because our background is in workplace and hospitality, we put on that hat of looking at it from a non-health care perspective. What do patients want?” says ALA’s founder and principal, Alda Ly. “One primary theme across many of ALA’s newest health and wellness projects,” says writer Jennifer Krichels, “is to cultivate a sense of community and empowerment among women seeking treatment.” Click here to learn more about how ALA’s thoughtful design considerations upend the typically austere patient experience. Image Liv by Advantia, photo by Stacy Zarin Goldberg.

Architensions’ redesign of a townhouse built in the 19th century in the Fitzrovia district of Central London is featured in Wallpaper*. The transformation of the home continues the studio’s focus on challenging patriarchal traditions in the interest of designing a more collective and inclusive domestic sphere. Writes Nana Ama Owusu-Ansah: “Architensions' concept merged spaces together, informed by their research on 'transgressive domesticity', as a way of reclaiming, re-appropriating and reconfiguring traditional notions of the home.” Click here to read more. Photos by Michael Vahrenwald ESTO.

Architensions’ founders Alessandro Orsini and Nick Roseboro, speak with fellow architect Valerio Franzone on “Transgressing Space: Reflections on how architecture can contribute to subvert an unequal and apparently stable system” in KoozArch. Click here to read the full interview. Image: Architensions’ “The Playground” installation for Coachella Music Festival 2022, photo by Michael Vahrenwald.

Frederick Tang Architecture’s founder, Frederick Tang, and director of interiors, Barbara Reyes, talk to Design Anthology about their recently completed State Street Townhouse project. Click here to read about FTA’s approach to the design brief, the material palette, custom pieces, and the home's sculptural and geometric elements. Photo by Gieves Anderson.

CO Adaptive Architecture's Timber Adaptive Reuse Theater project is featured in Architecture Now: New York, New Publics at The Museum of Modern Art. The new exhibition series serves as a platform to highlight emerging talent and foreground groundbreaking projects in contemporary architecture. On view February 19 through July 29, 2023, the first iteration of the series, titled New York, New Publics, explores the ways in which New York City–based practices have been actively expanding the relationship of metropolitan architecture to different publics. The inaugural installation will showcase the works of Adjaye Associates, Agency—Agency and Chris Woebken, CO Adaptive, James Corner Field Operations, Kinfolk, nARCHITECTS, New Affiliates and Samuel Stewart-Halevy, Olalekan Jeyifous, Only If, Peterson Rich Office (PRO), SO – IL, and SWA/Balsley and Weiss/Manfredi with ARUP. In addition, each project will be accompanied by a new video by Brooklyn-based filmmaker Hudson Lines, produced on the occasion of the exhibition. Architecture Now: New York, New Publics is organized by Evangelos Kotsioris, Assistant Curator, and Martino Stierli, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator, with Paula Vilaplana de Miguel, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art. Photo by Naho Kubota.

Spiegel Aihara Workshop’s breezy, Japanese-inspired retreat is featured in Livingetc’s piece on minimalist backyard design. “Minimalist gardens don't need to be empty or austere, but they should have a strong focus,” says Megumi Aihara, co-founder, and principal of SAW. “Trees can help provide that focus and if a tree is to become the highlight of your minimal garden, it should maximize your attention in multiple ways.” Click here to see how SAW used a majestic Weeping Maple to anchor their design. Photo by Mikiko Kikuyama.

On February 13th, 2023, we hosted a panel on design for art spaces at the beautiful Second Home Hollywood. We discussed experimentation in architecture; updating traditional institutions for access, inclusion and new ways of viewing art; the significance of labor, collaboration, and community in the context of cultural spaces; the role of architects in development; and lots more.⁠

⁠Grateful to our talented panelists, architect John K. Chan, founder and Design Director of Formation Association; designer and curator Kate Yeh Chiu, director of Materials & Applications and faculty at USC; architect and curator Priscilla Fraser, founder and principal of PFAAD and former Executive Director of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture; and architect Zeina Koreitem, founding partner (with John May) of MILLIØNS and design faculty at SCI-Arc. The talk was moderated by This by That co-founder Honora Shea.⁠ Image: From left to right: Honora Shea, Priscilla Fraser, Zeina Koreitem, Kate Yeh Chiu, and John K. Chan, photo by Owen Kolasinski.

Worrell Yeung’s Lake House was recently featured in Dezeen. The design of the 4,900-SF family lake house is defined by cantilevered horizontal roof planes that cascade down the steep site towards Candlewood Lake in Connecticut. The home is constructed primarily from site-cast concrete, allowing for large, uninterrupted glass openings that enhance the connection to nature. “Part of the goal of the project was to minimize the house's presence and perceived size from the street," said principal Jejon Yeung. "We ended up layering planes and stacking volumes to break up the mass of the house as it cascades down the hill.” Photo by Naho Kubota.

“At the Brooklyn flagship of Lazy Sundaes, a cafe that offers Korean bingsoo sundaes, a shaved ice treat, and bubble tea, it’s always golden hour, writes Carlene Olsen in Interior Design. For the design concept of popular cafe’s fourth location, Alda Ly Architecture explored the idea of a ‘Lazy Sunset’—"that feeling you get when you find the perfect sunny spot on a Brooklyn fire escape or golden hour in a park with friends on a sleepy summer afternoon,” says ALA’s founder and principal Alda Ly. Click here to read about how ALA transformed the space into a customer-friendly oasis. Photo by Reid Rolls.

In its January/February 2023 print issue, ARCHITECT spotlights Los Angeles-based firm Formation Association for the magazine's "Next Progressives" series. Says Formation Association of their practice: "We’re a firm founded by Asian Americans of two cultures: Chinese and Korean. Our leadership and many team members speak more than one language. We’re comfortable with a multilingual attitude in architecture—translating and interpreting linguistic nuances in our own studied and peculiar way while always searching for conceptual through lines that tie different approaches together."⁠ Read the interview here. Portrait of Formation Association founders John K. Chan and Grace U. Oh by Kelly Barrie.

Michael K. Chen’s thoughts on AI and architecture “come down to how he sees his practice, one that is centered on attributes that AI alone cannot delineate, like context and social values,” writes Anna Fixsen in her article entitled “The Room That Designed Itself” for Elle Decor. “Tools like AI are interesting and useful,” says Chen. “But I think that like anything else, it’s garbage in, garbage out.” Click here to read more about “the world of generative AI, design’s wild new frontier” in Elle Decor. Portrait by Max Burkhalter.