SOLID OBJECTIVES IDENBURG LIU

The Mini Pavilions comprise five distinct, but formally coherent and physically interconnected structures, specifically designed to facilitate intimate, durational experiences with select works of art. Rotating exhibitions will be on view throughout the five galleries, attracting repeat visitorship and sustaining a dialogue between Art Omi Pavilions and the broader cultural context. The architectural vision, led by Brooklyn-based firm Solid Objectives Idenburg Liu (SO–IL), treats each gallery as chapters in an unfolding perceptual encounter, successively inviting the viewer to deepening stages of contemplation. Unifying the five pavilions under a single roof, SO–IL’s design emphasizes a continuous and cohesive experience. Learn more about the Mini Pavilions at the link in bio. #artomipavilions Renderings: Solid Objectives Idenburg Liu

Mass timber construction is underway as the new home for the Williams College Museum of Art takes shape and we recently celebrated the topping off. @iwanbaan visited to document the innovative double-curved timber structure. Collaborating with our partners @perrydeanrogers , structural engineers from @fastepp , @consigliconstruction , and the pioneering mass timber fabricator @nordic_structures , we commend @williamsartmuseum and @williamscollege for their dedication to excellence. This project reinforces Williams College’s commitment to the arts. Scheduled to open in fall 2027, the new WCMA building will host 11 galleries, multiple classrooms, a spacious auditorium, and a welcoming cafe, creating a vibrant cultural hub for the community.

46 Adelphi Street, Brooklyn — in progress. Photos by @iwanbaan

We are thrilled to share that our office designed the new @isseymiyakeofficial flagship store at 45 Madison Avenue in New York City, which opens to the public on May 8th. Located on the ground floor of the iconic Cass Gilbert-designed New York Life Building, at the corner of Madison Avenue and 26th Street overlooking Madison Square Park, the new flagship spans 13,000 square feet of retail space. This project holds significant meaning for our team as we have long admired the brand's collaborations with artists, dancers, and architects.

Seoul Guide curated by Thisispaper Architecture in Seoul — where traditional Korean courtyard houses exist alongside hyper-modern cultural centres. Cafés built inside renovated hanok, concrete towers rising from narrow hillside lots, and a generation of Korean architects defining a new architectural identity. Kukje Gallery by SO-IL @solidobjectives Hrr Café by Bricol Lab CYLINDER ONE @cylinder_________ Juun.J Flagship Store by WGNB @wgnb.kr dive.seoul @dive.seoul.art 032c Gallery in Seoul @ 032c.gallery.seoul by Gonzales Haase AAS @gonzalezhaase_aas Explore the full guide at thisispaper.com/guides/seoul

For the next edition of Independent May 14-17, award-winning architectural firm @solidobjectives Idenburg Liu (SO–IL) will transform the exterior of our new home at Pier 36 on the Lower East Side, giving the venue a distinctive visual identity in dialogue with the surrounding neighborhood. Based in Amsterdam and New York, SO–IL was founded in 2008 by Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu. They have worked internationally and collaborated with artists, curators, and cultural institutions, with a focus on community engagement, civic responsibility, and environmental sustainability. #SolidObjectives #IndependentNewYork

Urban presence — photo courtesy @valfl24 / architect: @solidobjectives / building: 144 Vanderbilt introduces a bold residential identity to Brooklyn through color, texture, and massing. The building is composed as a series of stacked volumes, expressed through precast, pigmented concrete panels in varying sizes. This modular assembly creates a dynamic façade that reads as a vertical composition of interlocking blocks rather than a single monolithic mass. Its distinctive pink tone gives the project a strong urban presence while softening the heaviness typically associated with concrete. Subtle shifts in volume generate terraces, recesses, and depth—enhancing light, views, and spatial variety for residents. Responding to its context along Myrtle Avenue, the building rises asymmetrically, reinforcing the perception of upward movement and layered construction. The result is a contemporary reinterpretation of masonry—where color and prefabrication redefine residential architecture. #Brooklyn #NewYorkCity #USA #ResidentialArchitecture #ContemporaryArchitecture

Pacific partnered with Solid Objectives Idenburg Liu to evolve the firm’s brand identity and design a new digital home for their practice. Rooted in the studio’s founding values of intellectual rigor and humanistic design, the comprehensive brand refresh is built to serve the firm’s dual base in New York and Amsterdam and scale across the next decade of work. Building on that foundation, we designed and developed a new website that features a robust project database with advanced filtering and support for long-form editorial publishing — structured to reflect both the breadth and depth of the studio’s international portfolio. The result is a restrained, highly considered platform that meets the ambition and scale of Solid Objectives Idenburg Liu’s practice. Visit solidobjectives.com

Der Kunstcampus Amant fügt sich als fein austarierte architektonische Struktur in das industrielle Gefüge Nord-Brooklyns ein. Über drei Häuserblocks hinweg entsteht ein Ensemble aus vier Volumen, das Ateliers, Galerien, Arbeits- und Lagerräume sowie ein Café vereint. Durchgänge, Außenräume und präzise gesetzte Eingänge verweben öffentliche und private Bereiche und öffnen den Campus zur Nachbarschaft. Der bewusste Einsatz von Backstein, Beton und industriellen Materialien erzeugt eine ruhige, zugleich taktile Atmosphäre. Jede Galerie besitzt eine eigene räumliche Identität in Proportion, Lichtführung und technischer Ausstattung und ermöglicht ein breites Spektrum kuratorischer und installativer Formate. ********** The Amant arts campus integrates into the industrial fabric of North Brooklyn as a finely calibrated architectural structure. Spanning three city blocks, the ensemble comprises four volumes that bring together studios, galleries, work and storage spaces, as well as a café. Passages, outdoor areas, and precisely placed entrances interweave public and private realms, opening the campus to the surrounding neighborhood. The deliberate use of brick, concrete, and industrial materials creates a calm yet tactile atmosphere. Each gallery possesses a distinct spatial identity in terms of proportion, light quality, and technical infrastructure, enabling a wide range of curatorial and installation-based formats. © Naho Kubato (1–5), Brad Ogbonna (7)

#ImmigrantStoryoftheWeek Housing and sustainability are issues that concern most New Yorkers including architect Jing Liu. 🏡 Winner of our 2018 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Architecture, Liu grew up in Nanjing, China, before moving to the U.S. at the age of 13 with her family. Settling in New Orleans, Liu fell in love with architecture, later earning her degree from @tulaneu . Now, with her Brooklyn-based firm @solidobjectives , she works on projects from around the world, including the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis, the venue for New York’s Frieze Art Fair, and a mixed-use district on the banks of the Seine River, commissioned by the City of Paris. Liu’s practice showcases a distinctive playfulness as well as a serious inquiry into urban housing and sustainability. Her research places a strong emphasis on shared space that is rooted in her Nanjing upbringing. Liu continues to dream up new visions of space that could transform life here in New York, like a communal, co-living project in Brooklyn. 💭✏️

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Necto was designed collaboratively and globally, built locally, reusable, lightweight and biodegradable. The project explores the theme of Intelligens through an immersive, innovative, and both computationally derived yet intuitively driven membrane structure that speculates on the future of temporary structures—lightweight, flexible and efficient, and embedded with latent intelligence Luminous threads seamlessly integrated within the textile follow selected stress pathways, forming a constellation of light and spatialized sound. Immersive animations dance across the membrane, transforming the structure temporarily into different environments, only to disappear entirely in the next moment again. The generative light and sound animations embrace lightness, exploring the expressive possibilities of a very minimal visual and sonic palette. Each atmosphere playfully speculates on the tensions between craft and algorithm, nature and technology, emergent process and design intent. Necto - A 3D-Knitted Anticlastic Media Architecture by SO-IL, Mariana Popescu and TheGreenEyl
at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, 10 May – 23 November 2025