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Liu and Idenburg first met in 2000 at SANAA in Japan while she was an intern and he was an associate working with Pritzker prize-winners Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa.

[1] In 2010, the firm won the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program with its playful, interactive installation Pole Dance.

[3] They are well known for their innovative use of materials, exemplified in the stainless steel chainmail mesh facade developed and fabricated for Kukje Gallery and 10-meter tall monolithic glass tubes for the CTF Museum in Hong Kong.

The winding form animates it on the unusual waterfront site and establishes the temporary structure as an icon along the water.

The museum includes a 50,000-square-foot permeable roof or "Grand Canopy" that blurs building edges and creates a sensory landscape of various activities and scales.