Buro Koray Duman Architects

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Koray Duman will join Urshula Barbour and Celia Imrey for “Medium and Message: An Introduction to Exhibition Design,” th...
08/28/2026

Koray Duman will join Urshula Barbour and Celia Imrey for “Medium and Message: An Introduction to Exhibition Design,” the first event of AIANY’s “The Spaces Between Objects: Architecture, Exhibition Design, and the Collaborative Process” series.

The conversation will explore exhibition design through narrative (the message), spatial experience, and multidisciplinary collaboration (the medium), and ask what distinguishes exhibition design from architecture and interiors.

Tuesday, September 8, 2026
6–8 PM
Center for Architecture, NYC

Speakers:
Urshula Barbour, Co-Founder, Pure+Applied
Koray Duman, AIA, LEED AP, Founder, Büro Koray Duman
Celia Imrey, AIA, Founder, Imrey Studio

Moderator:
Stefan Klecheski, AIA, Co-Founder, SAT Spatial and Steppe

RSVP: Link in Bio

Photo 1: View of the exhibition “Prologue to the Story of the Birth of Freedom” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago , 2025. Courtesy of Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago/Paul Pfeiffer Paul Pfeiffer

Photos 3–4: View of the exhibition “59th Carnegie International” at Carnegie Museum of Art Carnegie Museum of Art .Photo by Zachary Riggleman Zac Riggleman

Photos 6–7: View of the exhibition “Future Schools” at the National Academy of Design National Academy of Design .Photo by Argenis Apolinario Argenis Apolinario

August 22 is the last day to catch Future Schools at the National Academy of Design! Designed by B-KD in collaboration w...
08/19/2026

August 22 is the last day to catch Future Schools at the National Academy of Design! Designed by B-KD in collaboration with National Academy of Design, Future Schools transforms three of the nonprofit’s galleries into an alternative learning laboratory—a library, classroom, and multipurpose forum—envisioning participatory art education through an exhibition, a performance series, and evolving programming.

Rather than a static display, the project creates learning environment that reimagines the production of knowledge through a dynamic, open-access setting. The exhibition design reactivates the Academy’s legacy as an artist-founded school by supporting multiple modes of engagement—from teaching and discussion to informal gathering—through a custom modular system containing all elements necessary for activation by participants.

Curated by Natalia Viera Salgado and Nato Thompson, with programmatic support from Frank Dallas, the exhibition features commissions by Ad Minoliti, Christian Nyampeta, and WAI Think Tank (Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski) and a chalkboard drawing by Chloë Bass.

Hours: Tues-Sat 12-6pm
Location: 519 W 26th St 2nd floor, New York, NY 10001
Photography by Argenis Apolinario (Argenis Apolinario)

August 22 is the last day to catch Future Schools at the National Academy of Design! Designed by B-KD in collaboration w...
08/19/2026

August 22 is the last day to catch Future Schools at the National Academy of Design! Designed by B-KD in collaboration with National Academy of Design, Future Schools transforms three of the nonprofit’s galleries into an alternative learning laboratory—a library, classroom, and multipurpose forum—envisioning participatory art education through an exhibition, a performance series, and evolving programming.

Rather than a static display, the project creates learning environment that reimagines the production of knowledge through a dynamic, open-access setting. The exhibition design reactivates the Academy’s legacy as an artist-founded school by supporting multiple modes of engagement—from teaching and discussion to informal gathering—through a custom modular system containing all elements necessary for activation by participants.

Curated by Natalia Viera Salgado and Nato Thompson, with programmatic support from Frank Dallas, the exhibition features commissions by Ad Minoliti, Christian Nyampeta, and WAI Think Tank (Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski) and a chalkboard drawing by Chloë Bass.

Hours: Tues-Sat 12-6pm
Location: 519 W 26th St 2nd floor, New York, NY 10001
Photography by Argenis Apolinario Argenis Apolinario

Revisiting Bethune Townhouse: As summer heats up in New York City, we’re taking a look back at projects of summers past....
07/07/2026

Revisiting Bethune Townhouse: As summer heats up in New York City, we’re taking a look back at projects of summers past. B-KD designed the back patio and rooftop of a townhouse in Manhattan’s West Village as a calm outdoor living space and urban garden, creating a site of respite for the client.

Using brick for the side walls and paving extends the materiality of the facade into the backyard, where the paving dissolves directly into the landscape without borders. The side wall flows into a custom waterfall, adding a sculptural and sound element with greenery behind. Furniture selection accommodates communal gathering and combines with lush greenery to promote an oasis-like atmosphere for the residents.

06/16/2026

We’re pleased to announce that B-KD was selected as the Editors’ Pick in The Architect’s Newspaper’s 2026 Best of Practice Awards in the Architect (Small Firm)—Northeast category. Each year, Best of Practice celebrates top companies that are thoughtfully shaping North America’s built environment, based on three key pillars: design quality, office culture, and social impact. We are honored to be a part of a list of firms whose work we greatly admire.

Congratulations to all the winning firms, and thank you The Architect's Newspaper for this recognition of our practice!

06/12/2026

On the Air: Open House TV’s Sara Gore joined Koray Duman for a tour of B-KD’s Publisher’s Loft project in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Sited in a former shoe factory, the renovation of this loft showcases our innovative approach to clients’ unique needs, incorporating contemporary design into existing historic context in a thoughtful way.

The client’s existing space housed an expansive book collection cluttering living and leisure spaces. We embraced this as an opportunity to elegantly incorporate the collection into the loft without it overpowering the space. Custom shelving wraps around the perimeter at a 45 degree angle that allows the collection to be viewed from one direction, while reducing its visibility from the other and providing a 3D wall that animates as natural light changes throughout the day. The angular motif of the bookshelves is mirrored in the custom tilework flooring extending from the bathroom and kitchen into the living spaces, as well as the base of a custom-designed dining table. Subtle shifts in geometry, light, and texture turn a functional challenge into an integrated, dynamic living environment that balances utility with quiet delight.

To highlight the quality of the industrial manufacturing building, B-KD preserved historical wood beams and brick walls. Inserted elements—from fixtures to furniture—tie the space together with a contemporary feel.

Watch the full walkthrough at the link in our bio! Video courtesy of NBC’s Open House.

One month into the 59th Carnegie International — North America’s longest-running international art exhibition held every...
06/09/2026

One month into the 59th Carnegie International — North America’s longest-running international art exhibition held every four years at the — we’re taking a moment to look at some of the details from B-KD’s exhibition design. 

In line with this year’s curatorial statement, expanding on the title “If the word we” to consider the first-person plural as an evolving proposition shaped by listening, translation, and transformation, B-KD collaborated with exhibiting artists to design architectural interventions that present new landscapes in dialogue with their works. Sometimes, these interventions aim to create a productive tension with the existing gallery architecture, in which contradiction and cohabitation coexist and are celebrated. 

B-KD is led by iterative design that prioritizes listening as fundamental to supporting curatorial teams and working directly with artists to realize their vision. From Sofu Teshigahara to , B-KD shaped the way the assemblage of individual objects in display cases are experienced in dialogue with each other as visitors move through the space. Working with , B-KD created a meandering river-like pathway to position their collective’s hanging textiles as a forest that visitors can flow through. Positioned within existing architecture, Ana Raylander Martis dos Anjos’s piece “Justicia” is situated in the ceiling of a hallway for viewers to contemplate from below. The design provides layering of works that creates curiosity across spaces, and that position ’s masks in a thought-provoking tension with existing staircases in the main hall of the Carnegie.

The installation is on view through January 3, 2027.

Photos: Zachary Riggleman ( / © Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

B-KD is honored to announce that Future Schools, National Academy of Design () has won a 2026 NYCxDESIGN Award in the Ex...
05/28/2026

B-KD is honored to announce that Future Schools, National Academy of Design () has won a 2026 NYCxDESIGN Award in the Exhibition/Installation category, presented by . Thank you to the awards jury and Interior Design Magazine editor-in-chief, Cindy Allen () for this recognition!

Future Schools is on view through August 22, 2026.
Tuesday-Saturday, 12-6pm
📍National Academy of Design

We’re honored to have contributed exhibition design for the , presenting “Washwasha” in the 61st International Art Exhib...
05/18/2026

We’re honored to have contributed exhibition design for the , presenting “Washwasha” in the 61st International Art Exhibition of di Venezia 2026. Curated by and .Nassar, “Washwasha” brings together six artists whose practices contemplate contemporary soundscapes in the UAE, shaped by migration, transience and long-term ties to the land. A phonetic transliteration of the Arabic word for ‘whispering,’ “Washwasha” suggests sound at the threshold of audibility—a starting point for exploring themes of memory, movement, and rapid transformation. From oral storytelling to poetry circles and locally initiated broadcasting efforts, sound has long functioned as a platform for collective self-representation. “Washwasha” situates contemporary artistic practices within this continuum of transmission and exchange.

B-KD’s design provides a journey through the pavilion that traces the progression of sound through multiple modes—from oral histories to movement, migration, and technology. Organizing the exhibition as a sequence of chambers that respond directly to the acoustic signature of the space’s materiality and architecture, visitors are led from zones of close listening to areas consumed by noise and sonic overlap.

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sat down with to discuss B-KD’s recent projects from the US to Italy, including exhibition designs for and at the Ve...
05/12/2026

sat down with to discuss B-KD’s recent projects from the US to Italy, including exhibition designs for and at the Venice Biennale and for the ’s 59th Carnegie International, plus our recent Multi-Generational House project in Germantown, NY. Thank you David Barrett Graver () for the coverage!

Read the full interview at the link in our bio.

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