Big Design for Small Workspaces

Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui is an architect who has worked as a design lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and the Royal College of Art in London, Oxford Brookes University UK, London South Bank University, and Ecole Speciale d Architecture, in Paris, between 2003 and 2013. He studied at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and is a UK ARB and RIBA chartered architect. Kenny was actively engaged in the European design industry between 2003 and 2013, initially working as an assistant at Richard Rogers Partnership, and subsequently as the project architect at Urban Salon Architects, producing various prestigious projects. He developed an expertise in workplace design for the creative company BBH London. In 2013 he co-founded the architectural design practice Bean Buro in Hong Kong with Lorene Faure to continue their development in cross-cultural designs. The practice has since produced a string of successful workplace designs for reputable creative companies, such as Cheil, Leo Burnett, Warner Music, and it has been awarded Silver Winner in the Asia Pacific Interior Design Award 2015, Silver and Bronze Winner in the A Design Awards, and Finalist Winner of the 13th Modern Decoration International Media Award. The studio has a rigorous methodology of exploring spatial narratives through conceptual drawings and models that explore the humanistic aspects of design.