T.K. Justin Ng
Harvard Graduate School of Design
T.K. Justin Ng is an architectural designer and artist. He has worked for several internationally renowned architecture firms on a broad spectrum of architectural projects. He has held positions at the offices of OMA in Rotterdam, ALA Architects in Helsinki, Diamond and Schmitt Architects in Toronto and Aedas in Hong Kong. In particular, Justin was involved in the design of the New Tretyakov Museum in Moscow led by Rem Koolhaas and the newly-completed Helsinki Central Library. Outside the practice of design, Justin is engaged in writing and painting. He is the author of two books: The Vancouver Sketchbook in 2019 and The Urban Sketcher’s Guide to Helsinki in 2017. Justin holds a Bachelor of Architectural Studies with honours and distinction from the University of Waterloo. Currently, he continues his studies at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Municipal Art Society HQ
The Municipal Art Society (MAS) is a non-profit organization that champions smart urban design and preservation in New York City. They are in constant dialogue with the public sphere and their headquarters spatialize this transparent relationship. Rather than a curtain wall, which only produces an impression of transparency to pedestrians, the new office is wrapped in public programs on all levels. New Yorkers perusing the library or lounge can get close to the windows and peek into MAS. Furthermore, as the office volume responds to the site and the party walls, its massing jostles to produce a fragmented form. This articulation of the office volume introduces heterogeneity, while sloped roofs bring a touch of domesticity into the work environment. The sloped surfaces double as circulatory paths that weave the public experience into a promenade.
On The Shoulders of Giants
From Antiquity to the Middle Ages to the Renaissance to Mussolini… The richness of Rome resides not in a single period but in its breathtaking sequence of successive incarnations. Each incarnation of Rome carries with it a new urban paradigm that grafts onto the existing city. The negotiations between urban paradigms are part of Rome’s eternal battle between the ideal and the real, the platonic and the circumstantial, the past and the future. Rather than associating ourselves with one paradigm, the Museo del Parco Celio plays with the relationship between periods of histories, clashing and contorting pieces of the past and the present to generate new narratives.
University of Genoa Library Revitalization
Expanding learning space by incorporating a data center into an old library
Grand River Pedestrian Bridge
A cost-effective bridge solution over a historic column
Porta-Party
Transforming temporary event bathrooms into a new hangout
Arch Hive