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| Founded | 2008 |
| Location | Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. |
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SO – IL or Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu is an architecture firm in Brooklyn, New York City, which was founded in 2008 by Florian Idenburg (born 1975, Netherlands) and Jing Liu (born 1980, China).[1]
Liu and Idenburg first met in 2000 at SANAA in Japan while she was an intern and he was an associate working with Pritzker prize-winners Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa.[2] In 2002, they met again in New York when Idenburg was working on the New Museum project in Lower Manhattan and Liu was working for Thomas Leeser. They founded SO-IL in 2008.[1]
In 2010, the firm won the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program with its playful, interactive installation Pole Dance. They went on to design a residence for designer Ivan Chermayeff in upstate New York, the inaugural presence for the Frieze fair in New York City,[1] and the award-winning Kukje Gallery in Seoul.[3] They are well known for their innovative use of materials, exemplified in the stainless steel chainmail mesh facade developed and fabricated for Kukje Gallery and 10-meter tall monolithic glass tubes for the CTF Museum in Hong Kong. For the inaugural Frieze tent, working with a prefabricated rental tent structure forced them to be inventive with a limited vocabulary. Pie-shaped tent section wedges bend the otherwise straight tent into a meandering, supple shape. The winding form animates it on the unusual waterfront site and establishes the temporary structure as an icon along the water.[1]
In Spring 2013, SO – IL won a competition to design the new Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis. The museum includes a 50,000-square-foot permeable roof or "Grand Canopy" that blurs building edges and creates a sensory landscape of various activities and scales. The building was completed in 2016 and achieved LEED Platinum.[4]
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144 Vanderbilt, Brooklyn, USA
450 Warren, Brooklyn, USA
9 Chapel, Brooklyn, USA
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Julie Belcove, "Ahead of the curve", FT.com. 9 March 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
- ↑ "Leaving behind their Pritzker Mentors", SANAA. Source Fred A. Bernstein for the New York Times. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
- ↑ IconEye, March 2011. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
- ↑ Flaherty, Joe. "A New Art Museum Whose Ceiling Creates Inspiring Outdoor Spaces". Wired.