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130 S Beretania
Located at the mauka edge of downtown Honolulu, 130 S. Beretania St occupies a threshold site between the city’s historic core and the ascending terrain of the Pali Highway. The design responds to this unique triangular gateway site with an intentionally arranged set of slender mid-rise residences that frame Historic Fire Station No. 1, Honolulu’s oldest firehouse. This approach preserves the visibility of the landmark Fire Station while optimizing housing density, in a new desirable address that fosters community interaction rooted in strong connections to the city. The building massing… -
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Trillium Creative Office Building
In Woodland Hills, the Trillium project redefines an existing property with the addition of a three-story, 45,000 SF Creative Office Building at its center. Once home to an outdated fitness facility, the new building modernizes the site with pedestrian-oriented features, layered circulation sequences, and a three-story atrium lobby that artfully welcomes users from the surrounding buildings and open spaces. Together with renovations across the site, the building design transforms a utilitarian program into a place for innovation, creativity, and collaboration.
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SALT at Our Kaka'ako
Once a 3-acre industrial site, SALT at Our Kakaʻako, is the result of a master plan and adaptive reuse strategy developed to support the district’s transition from light industrial services to a vibrant, locally rooted mixed-use urban neighborhood. The project repositions four existing warehouse structures—once used for salt works, warehousing, and miscellaneous repair services—into a cohesive framework of public space, small-scale commercial uses, and cultural programming. To activate the ground plane, the plan introduces a mid-block pedestrian crossing that invites varying scales of… -
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Kaka'ako Art Wall
Located at the corner of Cooke and Pohukaina Streets, the Kakaʻako Art Wall marked a visible shift in the neighborhood’s identity—from a long-established community of residents and workers bridging downtown and Ala Moana to an urban destination of its own. Through an unprecedented collaboration between the Hawai‘i Community Development Authority (HCDA), Kamehameha Schools, and the University of Hawai‘i, the partnership reflected a shared commitment to supporting local creative voices and amplifying Kakaʻako’s cultural identity within Honolulu. Designed as a temporary and interchangeable… -
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Prada (Retail) Boutiques
Our long-standing collaboration with PRADA centers on a shared commitment to innovation, precision, and timeless modernity. Across multiple flagship, boutique, and travel-retail locations, we support the brand in shaping immersive environments that express its unmistakable design identity while responding thoughtfully to the cultural context of each city.
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Miu Miu (Retail) Boutiques
Our collaboration with MIU MIU reflects a shared exploration of individuality, experimentation, and evolving femininity. Across flagship, boutique, and travel-retail environments, we support the brand in shaping spaces that express its layered identity—balancing refinement with a sense of play—while responding to the cultural energy of each location.
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Balmain France (Retail) Boutiques
Our work with BALMAIN reflects the brand’s confident and highly structured identity—translated into spaces that feel intimate and assertive. Boutique environments are shaped through a balance of strength and restraint, where urban references and tactile materials create a grounded setting that amplifies the presence of each collection.
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Jingan Esports Venue
The Jingan Esports Venue occupies the former fourth-floor indoor swimming pool of the Jingan Sports Complex in Shanghai. The adaptive reuse strategy retains the open, column-free condition of the existing structure while responding to a new program centered on competitive digital gaming. Organized around three primary zones—Practice, Compete, and Explore—the layout takes advantage of the existing slab depression to anchor the Compete Zone at the center, with the Practice and Explore Zones positioned symmetrically to either side. A continuous circulation spine connects the zones and… -
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Reimagine Museum
Reimagine Museum proposes a shift in how art is encountered, distributed, and shared. It reflects a moment when institutions are being redefined—where questions of access, environmental responsibility, and social equity move to the forefront, calling for new spatial and cultural frameworks. Museums have long occupied fixed, prominent sites, acting as stewards of cultural memory and producers of contemporary discourse. Yet access to these institutions remains uneven, often tied to geography, economics, and proximity to global cultural centers.
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One South King
One South King reimagines a former 1960s office building as a contemporary hospitality anchor for downtown Honolulu—one that acknowledges the district’s layered history while addressing its future. Situated at a pivotal crossroads between the Financial District, Historic Chinatown, the Hotel Street Arts and Culture District, Fort Street Mall, and Honolulu Harbor, the project leverages its centrality to reconnect fragmented urban experiences.
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Pyeongchang-dong Art Complex
Influenced by the slopes of Bukhan-san and Bugak-san, the Pyeongchang-dong Art Complex engages a site where nature, city, and cultural memory converge. The design is derived from this hillside site by use of stepped, angular forms that trace the terrain while establishing a distinct civic presence along Pyeongchangmunhwa-ro. In this way, the building’s terraced roofline extends naturally from the slope in a series of steps that cascade toward the street, forming an urban edge that integrates with the adjacent street frontage. The resulting form is embedded in the landscape on one side and… -
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Childrens Care Village
Children's Care Village is a competition entry that explores the potential for architecture to be a catalyst for confidence, safety, and learning for children with limited access to basic healthcare. The programming is designed to integrate seamlessly into the landscape, utilizing intuitive and lightweight construction methodologies, and extend basic community-oriented services. The clinic serves as a physical and social anchor in areas where infrastructure is limited, extending its role beyond treatment to support broader community well-being. The design strengthens ties between rural… -
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Iwilei Industrial Condo
Set within a historically significant district adjacent to Honolulu Harbor, where light industry seamlessly blends with the communities that support it, the 616 Iwilei Industrial Condo development refreshes the vision of how small-scale industry contributes to the unique characteristics of Honolulu’s Primary Urban Core. The proposed design imagines repurposing a vacant former natural gas processing site, which sits adjacent to the original Dole Plantation Warehouse, representing an important opportunity to reinforce and connect to the city’s working economy.
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334 Seaside Avenue
334 Seaside Avenue sits at the historic heart of Waikiki, nestled between the sand and the canal, the ocean and the mountains. Once a mid-century residential tower defined by its undulating lanais and open-air corridors, it now stands as a reclusive landmark surrounded by high-rise development. LINKLAB’s proposed revitalization reimagines this structure not as an artifact, but as a living participant in Waikiki’s ongoing story — an architecture of restoration and reinvention that honors the spirit of Hawaiian hospitality while addressing the realities of urban density and climate-conscious…
