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SO-IL

United States

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SO–IL is an internationally recognised architecture and design firm established in New York in 2008 by Florian Idenburg (1975) and Jing Liu (1980). Now in its second decade, its work has spread to four continents. Designing across typologies, SO–IL partners with ambitious private and public clients to explore how built environments transform our relationships to the natural world and one another. Its work is informed by global narratives and perspectives while being deeply grounded in local social and cultural contexts. Each project incorporates innovative physical materials unique to its scale and specificity, from stretched chainmail enveloping an entire gallery building to an elegant array of glass tubes forming a museum facade. In a digitized world that increasingly draws one inward, SO–IL architecture is outward-looking, engendering meaningful dialogue with that which is materially and psychologically outside of ourselves. Independent of budget and location, SO–IL infuses its projects with craft and material tactility.

Kukje Gallery, Seoul (South Corea), completed in 2012, photo by Iwan Baan

Amant, Brooklin, New York (USA), completed in 2021, photo by Iwan Baan

450 Warren, Brooklin, New York (USA), completed in 2022, photo by Iwan Baan

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Argentina

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Ecuador

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England

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Austria

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Germany

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Switzerland

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France

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Germany / Austria

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The Netherlands / Bahrain

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China

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Portugal

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Switzerland

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Belgium

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