
Thank you indesignlive.hk for our Art Basel Hong Kong office renovation interview.

Kevin Lim Chin-kwok, founder and managing director of OpenUU, believes the workplace design trend is about bosses seeking a happy medium:

“By integrating Nike’s branding into the office’s public spaces, OpenUU has created a colourful and dynamic environment that, on all accounts, is a slam dunk.”

Kevin Lim Chin-kwok, managing director of openUU, employed it as a key element in a warehouse-to-gallery conversion at Wong Chuk Hang
We find that most of the challenges our studio has to work through invariably turn out to be a plus point. In the context of Hong Kong, the heightened pace of the city has taught us to be quite flexible in our operation; the overwhelming density has introduced us to a different way of understanding the occupation of space.

Architecture and design practice openUU (pronounced “open you, you”) was founded in 2011 by Kevin Lim Chin-kwok (son of artist and architect William Lim of CL3)