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Yugon Kim Completes Hardwood CLT Structure

Written by Acadaff on September 12, 2017. Posted in Architecture and Design.

Yugon Kim (Critic, Interior Architecture) has just completed the first hardwood Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) structure in the United States for the Columbus Exhibition in Columbus, Indiana. Yugon Kim was selected amongst 10 other Miller Prize Finalists...

Yugon Kim Invited to Participate in Miller Prize Competition

Written by Acadaff on October 4, 2016. Posted in Architecture and Design.

Yugon Kim (Critic, Interior Architecture) is one of ten architects from across the United States invited to participate in the inaugural J. Irwin Miller and Xenia S. Miller Prize Competition, which will coincide with the inaugural 2016 symposium for...

Kim Designs ‘Off the Wall’ at Isabella Stewart Gardner

Written by Acadaff on March 22, 2016. Posted in Architecture and Design.

Yugon Kim (Critic, Interior Architecture) is the designer of the recently opened exhibition Off the Wall: Gardner and Her Masterpieces at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, MA. Prompted by ongoing preservation and maintenance work at...

Yugon Kim Designs First Exhibition for Single Game Designer

Written by Acadaff on February 17, 2016. Posted in Architecture and Design.

Yugon Kim (Critic, Interior Architecture) is the designer of a new exhibition, The Games Worlds of Jason Rohrer, currently on display at the Davis Museum (106 Central Street) at Wellesley College until 26th June 2016. The exhibition is a retrospective...

Kim installs “Outside-in” up-cycled timber installation

Written by Acadaff on August 2, 2015. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Architecture and Design.

‘Outside-in’ is one of nine winning proposals for the ongoing secret shelters exhibition hosted at the heritage museum and gardens in Sandwich, Massachusetts. The interactive furniture installation was created by Yugon Kim (Critic, Interior Architecture),...

Kim featured in New England Forestry Foundation report

Written by Acadaff on May 3, 2015. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Architecture and Design.

In the recent NEFF 2015 Spring report, Yugon Kim (Critic, Interior Architecture) discusses how timber construction can combat climate change as well as misconceptions that timber must overcome to gain equal footing with steel and concrete in building...