2025

The runway environment consists of a fragmented landscape within the Shed, replacing the conventional linear runway with a continuous field of broken tile planes and water. A central pool establishes a reflective surface that interrupts the field and introduces depth, vapor, and atmosphere. The architecture reads as terrain rather than stage, distributing movement across multiple oblique paths.

A concealed misting system generates drifting vapor across the surface. Unlike conventional theatrical haze, water vapor introduces humidity, softens edges, alters acoustics, and scatters light, producing an unstable spatial field that shifts with movement. The broken grid of tiles remains visible, reinforcing the installation as a constructed landscape rather than a seamless object.

The environment positions bodies within a shared atmospheric field, transforming the runway into an immersive terrain of surface, air, and light.

Team
Vincent de Belleval

Photography
Hanna Tveite

2024-2025

Located on a prominent corner in West Hollywood, the Los Angeles flagship is conceived as both landmark and landscape. The project is organized around the atmospheric qualities of Los Angeles light, with materials selected for their capacity to reflect, diffuse, and emit, allowing the interior to transform across hours and seasons. Glass operates as a dynamic surface—alternately transparent and opaque, responsive to its environment.

An entry through a portal of extruded steel draws visitors from daylight into shadow before releasing into a luminous interior. At the center of the plan, monolithic linear displays span the full width of the room. Cast-in-place concrete volumes rest on razor-thin steel blades, encouraging circumambulation and slowing the act of viewing. Along the rear elevation, overlapping sliding glass screens operate as partitions and veils, alternately concealing and revealing shelving.

Team
Kaya Ramirez

Photography
Naho Kabuto

2023-2024

The space is organized through a radial composition in which gently curved perimeter walls establish a continuous circulation ring rather than a single directional path. At the center of the plan, an asymmetrical field of sculptural columns pierces the ceiling plane. These elements operate simultaneously as structure and display: solid bases support product, while fractured upper portions channel light downward to illuminate the objects below. A steel shroud conceals a central skylight, producing a luminous core revealed only once the field is entered.

Blackened steel, precast concrete, and smooth plaster define a raw but refined material palette. Despite its open plan, the space maintains an intimate atmosphere, balancing directed perimeter movement with open central exploration and establishing a field condition that invites multiple paths through the interior.

Team
Alan Paukman, Kaya Ramirez

Photography
Ori Harpaz

2025

The runway environment is defined by a single monolithic architectural element: a luminous floating ring that occupies the full scale of the Park Avenue Armory’s Wade Thompson Drill Hall. Suspended within a field of darkness, the ring appears to hover, the sole reference within the volume; the surrounding void an architectural horizon.

A concealed ring of lights above the element illuminates the runway below. Its textured surface absorbs and diffuses light, while a tapered edge sharpens the perimeter into a razor-thin horizon line. As viewing angles shift, the geometry shifts between line, ellipse, and circle, transforming the object into a drawing in space. Models circulate around the ring, turning the runway into a procession rather than a linear path.

Team
Vincent de Belleval

Photography
Hanna Tveite

2023-2025

The store is an intimate, materially driven interior punctuated by a newly constructed facade that establishes a direct relationship to the street. Custom solid bronze window frames introduce a durational exterior condition, allowing patina to register over time. The project reinterprets principles of the tatami mat as a modular ground plane, organizing the interior through a flexible spatial grid that guides movement, display, and occupation.

Large-format hot-rolled steel plates are laid without fasteners or finish, forming a continuous field from which curved display elements emerge. These elements appear to peel upward from the ground plane, revealing bronze beneath and functioning simultaneously as seating and display. Lower ceiling heights compress the space while full-height doors, wall niches, and windows emphasize vertical proportion. A new entry establishes a diagonal axis through the plan, structuring circulation and redefining the store’s relationship to the street.

Team
Kaya Ramirez

Photography
Eric Petschek

2023-2025

This series of retail environments translates the architectural language of Khaite’s permanent flagships into smaller retail sites throughout Korea and China. Each location distills the brand’s defining material palette, spatial geometry, and circulation strategies.

Across the sites, circular and radial geometries organize movement and perception, establishing spatial delay, layered sightlines, and calibrated thresholds rather than direct frontal display. Grey plaster, hot-rolled steel, concrete, and bronze recur as primary materials, producing interiors that read as monolithic volumes carved rather than assembled. Display elements are integrated into curved architectural planes, allowing garments and accessories to remain isolated, legible, and suspended within the field.

Each site adapts the same geometric and material principles to local conditions, transforming constraint into clarity while maintaining continuity across the Khaite spatial identity.

Team
Alan Paukman, Kaya Ramirez

2024

The Highland Park Village store is organized as a linear plan defined by large-scale, monolithic display elements. Continuous steel volumes extend along the length of the space, guiding movement through repetition and alignment. Objects are placed directly on steel surfaces. Lacquered surfaces introduce reflection, while translucent glass panels divide the plan and allow diffused light to penetrate into the interior. Walls and ceilings are finished in grey plaster.

Displays rise directly from the ground plane without transitional detailing. Materials meet directly, producing clear intersections between matte and reflective surfaces. Linear ceiling incisions admit light along the length of the space. As light conditions change, reflections in lacquer and glass shift, while silhouettes behind translucent glass remain diffuse.

Team
Mark Kołodziejczak, Kaya Ramirez

Photography
Ori Harpaz

2023-2024

This 9,000-square-foot floor-through renovation transforms a historic SoHo building into a combined showroom and design atelier for a fashion brand. The space is reorganized through a linear column line that establishes the primary structural and organizational spine of the project, dividing public and production programs while maintaining visual continuity across the full depth of the floor plate.

On the showroom side, existing columns are encased in steel and integrated into display systems. On the atelier side, the same column line supports a framework of steel and glass partitions that organize workspaces. Sliding glass planes conceal or reveal the program allowing the full depth of the space to remain legible.

A sample archive as well as a kitchen break area accessible from both sides forms a connective zone between public and private programs. Dinesen solid douglas fir planks run uninterrupted across the length of the floor, introducing warmth while reinforcing linear continuity. Blackened steel and translucent glass define thresholds while preserving openness and permeability.

Team
Mark Kołodziejczak, Alan Paukman

2023

This 3,000-square-foot loft renovation reconfigures a pre-war structure in Lower Manhattan through a restrained palette of plaster, white oak, and steel and a rigorously planar, axial spatial sequence. Existing brick and vaulted ceilings were repaired and unified establishing a cohesive interior.

The plan is organized with open living and kitchen spaces positioned at the center, a primary suite at one end, and additional bedrooms and baths at the opposite end. Sliding and pivoting planes operate as walls, doors, and backdrops, defining thresholds, concealing service zones, and allowing privacy without fragmenting the loft.

Full-height ceilings expand the central living volume, while lowered corridors at the ends of the plan function as chambers of passage. Monolithic oak shelving and benches read as architectural rather than furniture. A continuous north façade of windows brings light along the full length of the loft, maintaining openness while preserving distinct zones of habitation.

Photography
Eric Petschek

2024

The runway environment is constructed entirely through light. Two linear arrays of precision fixtures are suspended high above the floor, forming parallel luminous edges that define a central corridor within the vast volume of the Park Avenue Armory. The surrounding hall is withdrawn into darkness, allowing the runway to exist as a floating field of light, shadow, and moving bodies.

The room is digitally mapped so that each model’s position is tracked in real time. Narrow, vertical beams are programmed to follow the body as it moves, producing traveling columns of light that change scale and speed. As figures enter and exit the illuminated field, they appear and disappear within shifting zones of brightness and shadow.

The installation replaces physical architecture with a framework of light, transforming the runway into a responsive spatial environment calibrated to movement.

Team
Vincent de Belleval

Photography
Hanna Tveite

2022-2023

The first flagship store occupies the ground floor of a historic cast-iron building and is defined by light, material, and scale. The project engages the material legacy of New York through a restrained, elemental palette. The design preserves openness while introducing moments of intimacy.

The 4,000-square-foot ground floor is defined by high ceilings, exposed skylights, and a minimal structural field. Poured concrete, troweled cement, and custom plaster surfaces produce a carved interior condition, balanced by rolled steel elements that articulate shelving, hang bars, and fitting rooms. Patina is favored over polish, allowing steel and concrete to age visibly. A central tree anchors the plan, while red-lacquer fitting rooms introduce a subversive counterpoint to the otherwise muted interior.

Photography
Hanna Tveite, Eric Petschek

2018

A site-specific performance environment, Myriad is conceived as a “concertscape” that positions the audience inside the architecture of the music itself. Using the monumental scale of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall, the project explores disorienting relationships between sound, space, and perception, reconfiguring conventional models of live performance.

A fractured field of asymmetrical aluminum panels is chained and linked into a continuous hanging system that operates simultaneously as structure, projection surface, and enclosure. Engineered as a collective assembly, the panels suspend from one another to form a porous monolithic screen through which light is filtered, backlit, and fragmented.

An elevated octagonal stage anchors the composition, establishing a foreshortened field of vision and a compressed, immersive relationship between body, sound, and space.

Photography
Wrenne Evans

2018

A site-specific performance structure conceived as a static architectural instrument for choreography, framing, and perception. The installation takes the form of a monolithic white pavilion that stands in deliberate contrast to its surrounding landscape. Positioned within an open field, apertures, cutouts, and scaled voids calibrates relationships between body, ground, and horizon, producing a spatial field through which movement is read and bodies are framed.

Openings register changing light and shifting sightlines, aligning dancers with distant landscape features and foregrounding proportion as a primary spatial condition. The architecture remains fixed while bodies activate the field, transforming the pavilion into a device for visual rhythm, alignment, and pause. The performance was filmed and presented as a video installation that premiered at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, extending the work into a cinematic register across landscape, performance, and exhibition contexts.

Photography
Tyler Mitchell

2017

Orion’s Rise was presented at landmark venues including the Hollywood Bowl, Radio City Music Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Sydney Opera House as a series of site-specific performance environments rather than a conventional tour. Each venue was transformed into a spatial field for sound, movement, and ritual.

The stage architecture was composed of monumental geometric forms—pyramids, spheres, and platforms—arranged as a sparse, cosmic landscape. Bathed in light, these elements operated as sculpture and stage, establishing a timeless space that unified choreography, procession, and sound. Across venues, the architecture remained minimal yet monumental to create an atmosphere of intimacy, reverence, and immersion.

Khaite
SS 2026
New York

2025

The runway environment consists of a fragmented landscape within the Shed, replacing the conventional linear runway with a continuous field of broken tile planes and water. A central pool establishes a reflective surface that interrupts the field and introduces depth, vapor, and atmosphere. The architecture reads as terrain rather than stage, distributing movement across multiple oblique paths.

A concealed misting system generates drifting vapor across the surface. Unlike conventional theatrical haze, water vapor introduces humidity, softens edges, alters acoustics, and scatters light, producing an unstable spatial field that shifts with movement. The broken grid of tiles remains visible, reinforcing the installation as a constructed landscape rather than a seamless object.

The environment positions bodies within a shared atmospheric field, transforming the runway into an immersive terrain of surface, air, and light.

Team
Vincent de Belleval

Photography
Hanna Tveite

Khaite
8409 Melrose Pl.
Los Angeles

2024-2025

Located on a prominent corner in West Hollywood, the Los Angeles flagship is conceived as both landmark and landscape. The project is organized around the atmospheric qualities of Los Angeles light, with materials selected for their capacity to reflect, diffuse, and emit, allowing the interior to transform across hours and seasons. Glass operates as a dynamic surface—alternately transparent and opaque, responsive to its environment.

An entry through a portal of extruded steel draws visitors from daylight into shadow before releasing into a luminous interior. At the center of the plan, monolithic linear displays span the full width of the room. Cast-in-place concrete volumes rest on razor-thin steel blades, encouraging circumambulation and slowing the act of viewing. Along the rear elevation, overlapping sliding glass screens operate as partitions and veils, alternately concealing and revealing shelving.

Team
Kaya Ramirez

Photography
Naho Kabuto

Khaite
South Coast Plaza
New York

2023-2024

The space is organized through a radial composition in which gently curved perimeter walls establish a continuous circulation ring rather than a single directional path. At the center of the plan, an asymmetrical field of sculptural columns pierces the ceiling plane. These elements operate simultaneously as structure and display: solid bases support product, while fractured upper portions channel light downward to illuminate the objects below. A steel shroud conceals a central skylight, producing a luminous core revealed only once the field is entered.

Blackened steel, precast concrete, and smooth plaster define a raw but refined material palette. Despite its open plan, the space maintains an intimate atmosphere, balancing directed perimeter movement with open central exploration and establishing a field condition that invites multiple paths through the interior.

Team
Alan Paukman, Kaya Ramirez

Photography
Ori Harpaz

Khaite
FW 2025
New York

2025

The runway environment is defined by a single monolithic architectural element: a luminous floating ring that occupies the full scale of the Park Avenue Armory’s Wade Thompson Drill Hall. Suspended within a field of darkness, the ring appears to hover, the sole reference within the volume; the surrounding void an architectural horizon.

A concealed ring of lights above the element illuminates the runway below. Its textured surface absorbs and diffuses light, while a tapered edge sharpens the perimeter into a razor-thin horizon line. As viewing angles shift, the geometry shifts between line, ellipse, and circle, transforming the object into a drawing in space. Models circulate around the ring, turning the runway into a procession rather than a linear path.

Team
Vincent de Belleval

Photography
Hanna Tveite

Khaite
828 Madison Ave.
New York

2023-2025

The store is an intimate, materially driven interior punctuated by a newly constructed facade that establishes a direct relationship to the street. Custom solid bronze window frames introduce a durational exterior condition, allowing patina to register over time. The project reinterprets principles of the tatami mat as a modular ground plane, organizing the interior through a flexible spatial grid that guides movement, display, and occupation.

Large-format hot-rolled steel plates are laid without fasteners or finish, forming a continuous field from which curved display elements emerge. These elements appear to peel upward from the ground plane, revealing bronze beneath and functioning simultaneously as seating and display. Lower ceiling heights compress the space while full-height doors, wall niches, and windows emphasize vertical proportion. A new entry establishes a diagonal axis through the plan, structuring circulation and redefining the store’s relationship to the street.

Team
Kaya Ramirez

Photography
Eric Petschek

Khaite
Various
Korea

2023-2025

This series of retail environments translates the architectural language of Khaite’s permanent flagships into smaller retail sites throughout Korea and China. Each location distills the brand’s defining material palette, spatial geometry, and circulation strategies.

Across the sites, circular and radial geometries organize movement and perception, establishing spatial delay, layered sightlines, and calibrated thresholds rather than direct frontal display. Grey plaster, hot-rolled steel, concrete, and bronze recur as primary materials, producing interiors that read as monolithic volumes carved rather than assembled. Display elements are integrated into curved architectural planes, allowing garments and accessories to remain isolated, legible, and suspended within the field.

Each site adapts the same geometric and material principles to local conditions, transforming constraint into clarity while maintaining continuity across the Khaite spatial identity.

Team
Alan Paukman, Kaya Ramirez

Khaite
Highland Park Village
Dallas

2024

The Highland Park Village store is organized as a linear plan defined by large-scale, monolithic display elements. Continuous steel volumes extend along the length of the space, guiding movement through repetition and alignment. Objects are placed directly on steel surfaces. Lacquered surfaces introduce reflection, while translucent glass panels divide the plan and allow diffused light to penetrate into the interior. Walls and ceilings are finished in grey plaster.

Displays rise directly from the ground plane without transitional detailing. Materials meet directly, producing clear intersections between matte and reflective surfaces. Linear ceiling incisions admit light along the length of the space. As light conditions change, reflections in lacquer and glass shift, while silhouettes behind translucent glass remain diffuse.

Team
Mark Kołodziejczak, Kaya Ramirez

Photography
Ori Harpaz

Khaite
Showroom
New York

2023-2024

This 9,000-square-foot floor-through renovation transforms a historic SoHo building into a combined showroom and design atelier for a fashion brand. The space is reorganized through a linear column line that establishes the primary structural and organizational spine of the project, dividing public and production programs while maintaining visual continuity across the full depth of the floor plate.

On the showroom side, existing columns are encased in steel and integrated into display systems. On the atelier side, the same column line supports a framework of steel and glass partitions that organize workspaces. Sliding glass planes conceal or reveal the program allowing the full depth of the space to remain legible.

A sample archive as well as a kitchen break area accessible from both sides forms a connective zone between public and private programs. Dinesen solid douglas fir planks run uninterrupted across the length of the floor, introducing warmth while reinforcing linear continuity. Blackened steel and translucent glass define thresholds while preserving openness and permeability.

Team
Mark Kołodziejczak, Alan Paukman

Great Jones Loft
New York

2023

This 3,000-square-foot loft renovation reconfigures a pre-war structure in Lower Manhattan through a restrained palette of plaster, white oak, and steel and a rigorously planar, axial spatial sequence. Existing brick and vaulted ceilings were repaired and unified establishing a cohesive interior.

The plan is organized with open living and kitchen spaces positioned at the center, a primary suite at one end, and additional bedrooms and baths at the opposite end. Sliding and pivoting planes operate as walls, doors, and backdrops, defining thresholds, concealing service zones, and allowing privacy without fragmenting the loft.

Full-height ceilings expand the central living volume, while lowered corridors at the ends of the plan function as chambers of passage. Monolithic oak shelving and benches read as architectural rather than furniture. A continuous north façade of windows brings light along the full length of the loft, maintaining openness while preserving distinct zones of habitation.

Photography
Eric Petschek

Khaite
SS 2024
New York

2024

The runway environment is constructed entirely through light. Two linear arrays of precision fixtures are suspended high above the floor, forming parallel luminous edges that define a central corridor within the vast volume of the Park Avenue Armory. The surrounding hall is withdrawn into darkness, allowing the runway to exist as a floating field of light, shadow, and moving bodies.

The room is digitally mapped so that each model’s position is tracked in real time. Narrow, vertical beams are programmed to follow the body as it moves, producing traveling columns of light that change scale and speed. As figures enter and exit the illuminated field, they appear and disappear within shifting zones of brightness and shadow.

The installation replaces physical architecture with a framework of light, transforming the runway into a responsive spatial environment calibrated to movement.

Team
Vincent de Belleval

Photography
Hanna Tveite

Khaite
165 Mercer St.
New York

2022-2023

The first flagship store occupies the ground floor of a historic cast-iron building and is defined by light, material, and scale. The project engages the material legacy of New York through a restrained, elemental palette. The design preserves openness while introducing moments of intimacy.

The 4,000-square-foot ground floor is defined by high ceilings, exposed skylights, and a minimal structural field. Poured concrete, troweled cement, and custom plaster surfaces produce a carved interior condition, balanced by rolled steel elements that articulate shelving, hang bars, and fitting rooms. Patina is favored over polish, allowing steel and concrete to age visibly. A central tree anchors the plan, while red-lacquer fitting rooms introduce a subversive counterpoint to the otherwise muted interior.

Photography
Hanna Tveite, Eric Petschek

Oneohtrix Point Never
Myriad
New York

2018

A site-specific performance environment, Myriad is conceived as a “concertscape” that positions the audience inside the architecture of the music itself. Using the monumental scale of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall, the project explores disorienting relationships between sound, space, and perception, reconfiguring conventional models of live performance.

A fractured field of asymmetrical aluminum panels is chained and linked into a continuous hanging system that operates simultaneously as structure, projection surface, and enclosure. Engineered as a collective assembly, the panels suspend from one another to form a porous monolithic screen through which light is filtered, backlit, and fragmented.

An elevated octagonal stage anchors the composition, establishing a foreshortened field of vision and a compressed, immersive relationship between body, sound, and space.

Photography
Wrenne Evans

Solange Knowles
Metatron’s Cube
Los Angeles

2018

A site-specific performance structure conceived as a static architectural instrument for choreography, framing, and perception. The installation takes the form of a monolithic white pavilion that stands in deliberate contrast to its surrounding landscape. Positioned within an open field, apertures, cutouts, and scaled voids calibrates relationships between body, ground, and horizon, producing a spatial field through which movement is read and bodies are framed.

Openings register changing light and shifting sightlines, aligning dancers with distant landscape features and foregrounding proportion as a primary spatial condition. The architecture remains fixed while bodies activate the field, transforming the pavilion into a device for visual rhythm, alignment, and pause. The performance was filmed and presented as a video installation that premiered at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, extending the work into a cinematic register across landscape, performance, and exhibition contexts.

Photography
Tyler Mitchell

Solange
Orion's Rise Tour

2017

Orion’s Rise was presented at landmark venues including the Hollywood Bowl, Radio City Music Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Sydney Opera House as a series of site-specific performance environments rather than a conventional tour. Each venue was transformed into a spatial field for sound, movement, and ritual.

The stage architecture was composed of monumental geometric forms—pyramids, spheres, and platforms—arranged as a sparse, cosmic landscape. Bathed in light, these elements operated as sculpture and stage, establishing a timeless space that unified choreography, procession, and sound. Across venues, the architecture remained minimal yet monumental to create an atmosphere of intimacy, reverence, and immersion.