MYRIAD PUBLIC MARKET· ROSEMEAD , CALIFORNIA
Commercial +
Mixed-Use
Architecture for public life, work, hospitality, and mixed-use environments.
DK Design Workshop is a Los Angeles architecture practice combining design clarity with the technical depth to carry projects from concept through permit and construction.
01 / CURRENT & COMPLETED WORK
Selected DK Design Workshop
Commercial Work
Spanning a range of scales and building types, the work reflects an approach to architecture shaped by context, program, and the specific opportunities of each project.
MYRIAD PUBLIC MARKET
ROSEMEAD, CA - Food Hall + Adaptive Reuse + Rooftop
PROJECT ARCHITECT
overall design + construction documents
AT SCALE
New construction of a 34,700-sq-ft tilt-up warehouse and premium office building in the South Bay Area of Southern California. This project delivered a higher volume of storage space to compensate for the lack of vacant lots for new warehouses in the South Bay Area. The building’s visual style, including 70-foot-long horizontal windows, captures the speed and energy of the vehicles moving along Vermont avenue. The office’s location outside of the warehouse’s tilt-up concrete shell allows structural freedom for the bold building’s form, which stands out among all other warehouse buildings in this area.
VDC DISTRIBUTION CENTER
South Bay, CA - 34,700 SF Ground-Up Commercial
RE:MASK
Seoul, Korea - 35,000 SF Commercial Renovation - WEWORK Sinsa
SMALL BUT THOUGHTFUL
New construction with total 3,000 sf-ft duplex co-living above the concrete podium including retail space + parking garage. Each co-living unit has 6 bedroom+bathroom combo spaces for individual user with a common living, kitchen, & dining space. The building design concept is inspired by the site located between a commercial corridor and residential zoning. The gable roof from the image of the house and flat concrete podium massing representing a commercial building are combined vertically and represent this specific site location and provides a unique signal to the community as a landmark building.
LINCOLN CO-LIVING MIXED-USE
Los Angeles, CA · Retail + Residential · New Construction
GREEN POCKETS
Compton, CA · Warehouse Office Remodeling + Addition
Office addition in an existing warehouse building shell in the city of Compton. Continuous expansion of the office spaces within a warehouse shell sometimes creates a work environment that lacks natural light and delivers a maze-like spatial experience. The green pocket between the office and the warehouse enhances the work environment by using an artificial vertical landscape as a location indicator or landmark point. The green pocket provides bright space in a deep location of the warehouse, with natural light pouring from the existing skylight right above the green pocket.
3 BOXES IN A SHELL
Gardena, CA · Workplace + Adaptive Reuse
Three distinct program volumes are inserted within the existing warehouse shell, creating a new workplace while preserving the openness of the original industrial space. Conceived as independent objects within the larger volume, the boxes define circulation and shared work areas around them, allowing the character and scale of the existing warehouse to remain visible throughout.
UNIQUE & LUXURIOUS
FLOWER HOTEL
Los Angeles, CA · 47 guest room boutique hotel + restaurant + rooftop seating, 40,211 SF
COMMERCIAL CAPABILITY
Mixed-Use
Adaptive Reuse
Hospitality+Retail
Warehouse
Workplace
Food Hall
02 / PRINCIPAL'S PRIOR EXPERIENCE
Experience beyond
the studio portfolio.
Selected commercial and large-scale project experience of the principal architect prior to founding DK Design Workshop.
The following projects represent prior professional experience and are not projects of DK Design Workshop.
Image courtesy NBBJ
Image courtesy NBBJ
KINTEX II EXPO BUILDING
Goyang, Korea· New Construction, 212,441 SFf
2012 MIPIM Asia Gold Award, Best Retail Leisure Development, 2012 Kyonggi Architecture Award Silver Award
Architect: NBBJ
Role - Designer (designed building form of the entire project)
HYUNDAI MOTORS GLOBAL BUSINESS CENTER ZONE 2
Seoul, Korea · New Construction
5,400,000 SF Multi-Use Complex
Architect: NBBJ
Role - Project Architect
Image courtesy NBBJ
THE SOURCE MALL
Buena Park, CA · New Construction
400,000 SF Retail + Entertainment Center
Approx. 150 Retail / Dining / Entertainment Spaces
Architect: NBBJ
Role - Designer from schematic design to construction document phase
Image courtesy NBBJ
LEXINGTON CONVENTION CENTER
Lexington, KY · Remodeling & Addition
646,000 SF Arena remodeling and addition, 366,000 sf Convention Center
2014 AIA LA Next LA Honor Award, NBBJ
Architect: NBBJ
Role - Designer for convention center
03 / HOW WE WORK
Design clarity.
Technical follow-
through.
A design-focused practice with the technical depth to carry commercial work from concept through permit and construction.
04 / PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT
KIM, DONG WOO
AIA | Principal, DK Design Workshop
金桐佑
Dong Woo Kim is a California-licensed architect and founder of DK Design Workshop. His professional experience spans commercial, mixed-use, workplace, hospitality, adaptive-reuse, and residential architecture in the United States and Asia.
Before founding DK Design Workshop in Los Angeles in 2015, he worked at design-oriented architecture firms including NBBJ and BCHO Architects, where he contributed to projects of varying scales and served in leading design roles on award-recognized work. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Architectural Engineering in Korea and his Master of Architecture from SCI-Arc. He has served as a guest critic at the USC School of Architecture, and his work has been exhibited in Los Angeles and Seoul.
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