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BEAU Architects BEAU Architects BEAU ARCHITECTS WAS FOUNDED IN HONG KONG IN 2014 BY PRACTITIONERS CHARLOTTE LAFONT-HUGO AND GILLES VANDERSTOCKEN.

IT HAS SINCE EVOLVED INTO A TEAM of 4 to 5 MEMBERS FROM VARIOUS FIELDS AND ORIGIN, ALL CONTRIBUTING THANKS TO THEIR EXPERTISE TO A CRITICAL METHODOLOGY AND RIGOROUS PRODUCTION. SINCE THE BEGINNING, THE OFFICE IS FOCUSING ON ART- RELATED PROJECTS: GALLERIES, EXHIBITIONS, ARTWORKS AND ART CENTRES. THANKS TO ITS ACTIVE AND COLLABORATIVE RELATION WITH ALL PARTIES, FROM ARTIST TO CURATORS, FROM TECHNIC

AL SPECIALISTS TO CONTRACTORS, BEAU ARCHITECTS HAS GAINED A VALUABLE KNOW-HOW ALLOWING THEM TO PRODUCE SHARP, SINGULAR AND EFFICIENT PROPOSALS.

IG text for second batchA long overdue throwback on the 4th collaboration between artist Cao Fei and BEAU which took pla...
24/10/2025

IG text for second batch

A long overdue throwback on the 4th collaboration between artist Cao Fei and BEAU which took place at Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales from November 24 to April 25. Entitled “My City is Yours” (欢迎登陆), it elaborated further on their common obsessions for urban contexts, architectural language, movie sets, “fakeness” and spatial/material experimentation. The proprietary and entirely reusable scaffolding system, complemented by a series of overly “constructivist-detailed” volumes, was also seen as part of a sustainable strategy along the implementation of unfinished or salvaged materials. As for the previous exhibitions, and as the result of an intense “multiple-hands” design process involving the artist, museum team and architects, all artworks and installations merged with the scenography infrastructure, pursuing the idea of blurring the traditional boundary between content and container. Winner of the Critics’ Choice Best Art Exhibition at the 2025 Sydney Arts & Culture Awards.

Organised by: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Artist: Cao Fei
Curators: Ruby Arrowsmith-Todd & Yin Cao
Exhibition Architect: Beau Architects
AGNSW Designers: Jemima Woo & Isaac Harrison
AGNSW Graphic Designer: Analiese Cairis
Contractor: Kilkcook Construction
Photographer: Hamish McIntosh

A long overdue throwback on the 4th collaboration between artist Cao Fei and BEAU which took place at Sydney’s Art Galle...
23/10/2025

A long overdue throwback on the 4th collaboration between artist Cao Fei and BEAU which took place at Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales from November 24 to April 25. Entitled “My City is Yours” (欢迎登陆), it elaborated further on their common obsessions for urban contexts, architectural language, movie sets, “fakeness” and spatial/material experimentation. The proprietary and entirely reusable scaffolding system, complemented by a series of overly “constructivist-detailed” volumes, was also seen as part of a sustainable strategy along the implementation of unfinished or salvaged materials. As for the previous exhibitions, and as the result of an intense “multiple-hands” design process involving the artist, museum team and architects, all artworks and installations merged with the scenography infrastructure, pursuing the idea of blurring the traditional boundary between content and container. Winner of the Critics’ Choice Best Art Exhibition at the 2025 Sydney Arts & Culture Awards.

Organised by: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Artist: Cao Fei
Curators: Ruby Arrowsmith-Todd & Yin Cao
Exhibition Architect: Beau Architects
AGNSW Designers: Jemima Woo & Isaac Harrison
AGNSW Graphic Designer: Analiese Cairis
Contractor: Kilkcook Construction
Photographer: Hamish McIntosh

The YDP project converts a grade 1 listed 18th-century Georgian townhouse on Bedford Square into a contemporary art spac...
13/10/2025

The YDP project converts a grade 1 listed 18th-century Georgian townhouse on Bedford Square into a contemporary art space. As so, it is addressing today’s plural practices along the challenges of dealing with heritage architecture. The result articulates two main proposals: One, a stable spatial envelope, balancing preservation of historical elements or traces of previous transformations with modern (re)interpretations of Georgian tropes, the whole prioritising exposed, bare, and reclaimed materials. Two, a modular, reusable “as-universal-as-possible” exhibition system engaging with the variety of spatial typologies produced by the above interventions.
Client:
Local Architect & Heritage Consultant: Williams Architecture
Structural engineer: Mason Navarro Pledge
Quantity Surveyor & Contract Management: Stockdale UK
M&E Consultant: WP3
Building Control: Socotec
Contractor: Westgreen Construction
Graphic Designer: A Practice for Everyday Life
Photographer: Thomas Adank

The YDP project converts a grade 1 listed 18th-century Georgian townhouse on Bedford Square into a contemporary art spac...
10/10/2025

The YDP project converts a grade 1 listed 18th-century Georgian townhouse on Bedford Square into a contemporary art space. As so, it is addressing today’s plural practices along the challenges of dealing with heritage architecture. The result articulates two main proposals: One, a stable spatial envelope, balancing preservation of historical elements or traces of previous transformations with modern (re)interpretations of Georgian tropes, the whole prioritising exposed, bare, and reclaimed materials. Two, a modular, reusable “as-universal-as-possible” exhibition system engaging with the variety of spatial typologies produced by the above interventions.
Client:
Local Architect & Heritage Consultant: Williams Architecture
Structural engineer: Mason Navarro Pledge
Quantity Surveyor & Contract Administrator: Stockdale UK
M&E Consultant: WP3
Building Control: Socotec
Contractor: Westgreen Construction
Graphic Designer: A Practice for Everyday Life
Photographer: Thomas Adank

The YDP project converts a grade 1 listed 18th-century Georgian townhouse on Bedford Square into a contemporary art spac...
08/10/2025

The YDP project converts a grade 1 listed 18th-century Georgian townhouse on Bedford Square into a contemporary art space. As so, it is addressing today’s plural practices along the challenges of dealing with heritage architecture. The result articulates two main proposals: One, a stable spatial envelope, balancing preservation of historical elements or traces of previous transformations with modern (re)interpretations of Georgian tropes, the whole prioritising exposed, bare, and reclaimed materials. Two, a modular, reusable “as-universal-as-possible” exhibition system engaging with the variety of spatial typologies produced by the above interventions.
Client:
Local Architect & Heritage Consultant: Williams Architecture
Structural engineer: Mason Navarro Pledge
Quantity Surveyor: Stockdale UK
M&E Consultant: WP3
Building Control: Socotec
Contractor: Westgreen Construction
Graphic Designer: A Practice for Everyday Life
Photographer: Thomas Adank

The project converts a grade 1 listed 18th-century Georgian townhouse on Bedford Square into a contemporary art space. ...
18/09/2025

The project converts a grade 1 listed 18th-century Georgian townhouse on Bedford Square into a contemporary art space. As so, it is addressing today’s plural practices and the challenges of dealing with heritage architecture. The result articulates two main proposals: One, a stable spatial envelope, balancing preservation of historical elements or traces of previous transformations with modern (re)interpretations of Georgian tropes, the whole prioritising exposed, bare, and reclaimed materials. Two, a modular, reusable “as-universal-as-possible” exhibition system engaging with the variety of spatial typologies produced by the above interventions. View 2/3, the conservatory.

The project converts a grade 1 listed 18th-century Georgian townhouse on Bedford Square into a contemporary art space. ...
16/09/2025

The project converts a grade 1 listed 18th-century Georgian townhouse on Bedford Square into a contemporary art space. As so, it is addressing today’s plural practices and the challenges of dealing with heritage architecture. The result articulates two main proposals: One, a stable spatial envelope, balancing preservation of historical elements or traces of previous transformations with modern (re)interpretations of Georgian tropes, the whole prioritising exposed, bare, and reclaimed materials. Two, a modular, reusable “as-universal-as-possible” exhibition system engaging with the variety of spatial typologies produced by the above interventions. View 1/3, the main exhibition rooms.

‘Staging The Archive’ is featured in ‘Projecting Future Heritage: A Hong Kong Archive,’ the Hong Kong contribution to th...
13/08/2025

‘Staging The Archive’ is featured in ‘Projecting Future Heritage: A Hong Kong Archive,’ the Hong Kong contribution to the 19th Venice Biennale 2025, located at the Campo della Tana, Arsenale. Our installation takes the form of a large amphitheatre, engaging the unique tangibilities of the courtyard to create an open space accessible to all, suitable for a variety of events and daily activities.
Drawing from Hong Kong’s ubiquitous bamboo scaffolding, now at risk of disappearing in favour of their steel counterparts, the installation involves collaboration with local masters known as Shifu. The design intentionally avoids any complex resolution, instead focusing on showcasing the simplicity and logic of the construction process. A ‘typical’ cross-section, interpreted and extruded, runs along the morphology of the courtyard’s interior, creating the intimacy required to hold a series of forums and events during the Biennale. In addition, our approach documents and understands ‘scaffolding’ as both a noun and a verb, an action embodying a craftsmanship that could be considered intangible heritage.

Curatorial Team: Ying Zhou, Fai Au, Sunnie Lau, Wing Yuen, Jonathan Yeung
Exhibitors and Stage Design: Architecture Land Initiative (Guillaume Othenin Girard, Kent Mundle from ALIN) and BEAU Architects (Charlotte Lafont-Hugo, Gilles Vanderstocken)
Production House: IDS & Master Wing Kei 
Organiser: The Hong Kong Institute of Architects Biennale Foundation & Hong Kong Art Development Council

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‘Staging The Archive’ is featured in ‘Projecting Future Heritage: A Hong Kong Archive,’ the Hong Kong contribution to th...
31/07/2025

‘Staging The Archive’ is featured in ‘Projecting Future Heritage: A Hong Kong Archive,’ the Hong Kong contribution to the 19th Venice Biennale 2025, located at the Campo della Tana, Arsenale. Our installation takes the form of a large amphitheatre, engaging the unique tangibilities of the courtyard to create an open space accessible to all, suitable for a variety of events and daily activities.
Drawing from Hong Kong’s ubiquitous bamboo scaffolding, now at risk of disappearing in favour of their steel counterparts, the installation involves collaboration with local masters known as Shifu. The design intentionally avoids any complex resolution, instead focusing on showcasing the simplicity and logic of the construction process. A ‘typical’ cross-section, interpreted and extruded, runs along the morphology of the courtyard’s interior, creating the intimacy required to hold a series of forums and events during the Biennale. In addition, our approach documents and understands ‘scaffolding’ as both a noun and a verb, an action embodying a craftsmanship that could be considered intangible heritage.

Curatorial Team: Ying Zhou, Fai Au, Sunnie Lau, Wing Yuen, Jonathan Yeung
Exhibitors and Stage Design: Architecture Land Initiative (Guillaume Othenin Girard, Kent Mundle from ALIN) and BEAU Architects (Charlotte Lafont-Hugo, Gilles Vanderstocken)
Production House: IDS & Master Wing Kei 
Organiser: The Hong Kong Institute of Architects Biennale Foundation & Hong Kong Art Development Council .i.n.g.z .wingyuen .studio

‘Staging The Archive’ will be featured in ‘Projecting Future Heritage: A Hong Kong Archive,’ the Hong Kong contribution ...
06/05/2025

‘Staging The Archive’ will be featured in ‘Projecting Future Heritage: A Hong Kong Archive,’ the Hong Kong contribution to the 19th Venice Biennale 2025, located at the Campo della Tana, Arsenale. Our installation takes the form of a large amphitheatre, engaging the unique tangibilities of the courtyard to create an open space accessible to all, suitable for a variety of events and daily activities.
Drawing from Hong Kong’s ubiquitous bamboo scaffolding, now at risk of disappearing in favour of their steel counterparts, the installation involves collaboration with local masters known as Shifu. The design intentionally avoids any complex resolution, instead focusing on showcasing the simplicity and logic of the construction process. A ‘typical’ cross-section, interpreted and extruded, runs along the morphology of the courtyard’s interior, creating the intimacy required to hold a series of forums and events during the Biennale. In addition, our approach documents and understands ‘scaffolding’ as both a noun and a verb, an action embodying a craftsmanship that could be considered intangible heritage.
Curatorial Team: Ying Zhou, Fai Au, Sunnie Lau, Wing Yuen, Jonathan Yeung
Exhibitors and Stage Design: Architecture Land Initiative (Guillaume Othenin Girard, Kent Mundle from ALIN) and BEAU Architects (Charlotte Lafont-Hugo, Gilles Vanderstocken)
Production House: IDS & Master Wing Kei 
Organiser: The Hong Kong Institute of Architects Biennale Foundation & Hong Kong Art Development Council. Pictures reworked by
Post 3/3: scale 1:1 mockup / .i.n.g.z .wingyuen .studio /

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