Next Progressives: Family

摘要

New York-based design firm Family couldn't have a more appropriate name. Partners Oana Stanescu and Dong-Ping Wong collaborate and communicate seamlessly, as if each was an extension of the other. Although they often approach projects from different angles, they arrive quickly at the crux of a problem together. "We understand what a partnership is," Wong says, adding that the duo also share a goal of producing "architecture as a productive piece of the city"-not architecture for its own sake, nor esoteric architecture, but ambitious architecture that makes a difference and "has a point to it."