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| Leong Leong, an innovative architecture studio based in New York and Los Angeles, is one of the participants of the City Cortex by Amorim programme. |
| Considered by many as one of the most promising studios of contemporary American architecture, Leong Leong aims to unify vision, design and execution in order to generate projects with cultural resonance for a diversity of clients. The studio’s approach balances strategic thinking and material experimentation, introducing new architectural practices.
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| One of the most emblematic projects of the young studio was the United States of America Pavilion for the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, later presented at the Guggenheim in Bilbao and at MoMA. The main premise of the pavilion was to revitalize modernism, highlighting the importance of History, while promoting new and more converging architectural practices.
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| Leong Leong were also responsible for designing the Queens Center for Community and Entrepreneurship and the Anita May Rosenstein Campus of the Los Angeles LGBT Center. Adding to these prestigious institutional projects, Leong Leong also designed City View Garage, an avant-garde parking lot in a shopping mall in Miami, several private housing complexes and exhibitions such as Living in America: Frank Lloyd Wright, Harlem and Modern Housing.
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| Having been invited to participate in the City Cortex programme, promoted by Corticeira Amorim and curated by experimentadesign, Leong Leong were in Portugal back in March 2019. The two team members visited Corticeira Amorim’s cork oak forests, factories and showrooms, where they discovered some of cork’s countless and surprising characteristics – such as the advantages of its application to surfboards, a sport practiced by one of the architects.
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| Founded in 2009 by brothers Dominic and Christopher Leong, the studio is an architecture firm and creative agency that works globally and in many contexts and on different scales, including buildings, interiors, exhibitions, and furniture. Leong Leong has been the recipient of the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices Award (2017), among other prizes. Their proposals for the urban space of New York, in the scope of the City Cortex programme, will be presented in Manhattan in 2020.
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