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Press Kit | no. 2757-50

Press release only in English

Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture

San Francisco, United States

Min Design

Two residential projects demonstrate Min Design’s unique ability to transform spaces into intimate, light-filled places that inspire calm and a sense of contemplation.

San Francisco, United States, 2025-02-10 - 

Min Design, led by E.B. Min, AIA, is a San Francisco-based award-winning architecture studio whose residential spaces transcend mere function. Their approach, a delicate dance between art and architecture, results in environments that are both elegant and textural, imbued with a quiet sophistication. With thoughtful consideration for the interplay of natural light, form, and flow, the studio creates homes that are not just shelters, but also sanctuaries – intimate havens where the everyday becomes extraordinary.


“Our design makes the ephemeral physical through catching light and shadow, framing views, and orchestrating surprise and delight,” explains Min. “Functionally, our work communicates a client’s values and aspirations. All of it is guided by practical considerations and challenges.”


Two such projects that illustrate the studio's approach are Capturing Light, an urban oasis that ingeniously navigates light dynamics, and Tribeca Penthouse, a historic remodel demonstrating an elegant solution to its existing challenges.


Capturing Light

Min Design’s most recent San Francisco residential project, Capturing Light, transforms the experience of urban living by intricately exploring the dynamics of light. With a very constrained site that has only two exposures, the owner’s overriding desire was to shed light throughout the house.


Despite challenges posed by neighboring structures and limited window exposures, the design ingeniously captures and manipulates light to craft intimate and contemplative spaces. Min Design was able to create a series of moments throughout the home that reflect, highlight, or manipulate light in a variety of ways. Through a delicate balance of direct, indirect, reflected, and borrowed lighting techniques, the house emerges as a luminous sanctuary amidst the urban landscape. Capturing Light reflects a home where art and architecture are notably present within the design.


Tribeca Penthouse 

Min Design reimagined a penthouse apartment nestled atop a converted 1884 former warehouse in New York City. Collaborating closely with the homeowners, the firm embraced a light-handed approach, introducing elegant architectural elements that seamlessly meld with the building's historic character. The result is a serene, playful, and highly functional living space tailored to accommodate a family with young children.


In response to the owners' desire for a quietly sophisticated ambiance, Min Design employed durable, unfussy materials and a minimal color palette. This design ethos serves as a striking counterpoint to the existing heavy timber framework of the building, while providing a tasteful backdrop for the family's artwork.


Throughout the apartment, thoughtful architectural interventions such as recesses, wall columns, and soffits integrated seamlessly into bespoke cabinetry create visually refined spaces.


The redesign of the stair, in particular, posed a unique challenge, with an elegant and playful solution. With a shifted stacking layout and original open risers with glass railings, the stairs felt out of place within the apartment's context. Min Design ingeniously transformed it into a focal point, utilizing folded steel plates to define its form and capture daylight, infusing the space with an airy brightness.

 

About Min Design

Min Design is an award-winning design studio built on a foundation of architecture, landscape, and art. They create objects, spaces, and environments for a diversity of clients, projects, and scales. Founded and led by E.B. Min, the firm’s work has been nationally recognized for design excellence across a wide range of project types. Recognition includes the Architecture League’s Emerging Voices award, Architectural Record‘s Design Vanguard, and numerous other awards and publications.


E.B. Min, AIA, Founder and Principal

E.B. Min leads Min Design. An honors graduate of Brown University with dual concentrations in Art History and Studio Art, she began her architectural studies as a cross-registered student at Rhode Island School of Design. She received her Master of Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley, and she is a licensed architect in California.


E.B.’s experience in the landscape architecture office of Delaney and Cochran nurtured her interest in the integration of landscapes and buildings. She has taught at U.C. Berkeley and is an Adjunct Professor in the Architecture Program at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. E.B. has also served on the Board of Directors for the AIASF and AIACC.

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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  Capturing Light: Bounded by neighboring buildings, Min Design designed this space so that light is manipulated to create private and intimate moments that transform and delight throughout the day into night. - Photo credit: Joe Fletcher
Capturing Light: Bounded by neighboring buildings, Min Design designed this space so that light is manipulated to create private and intimate moments that transform and delight throughout the day into night.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture - Capturing Light: Daylight animates and enlivens this house in an exploration of captured light, views, textures and shadow.  - Photo credit: Joe Fletcher
Capturing Light: Daylight animates and enlivens this house in an exploration of captured light, views, textures and shadow.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  Capturing Light: Undulating light and shadow animate the interior throughout the day.  - Photo credit: Joe Fletcher
Capturing Light: Undulating light and shadow animate the interior throughout the day.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture - Capturing Light: At its heart lies the four-story stairwell, serving as both a spatial connector and a canvas for dynamic light sculptures. - Photo credit:  Joe Fletcher
Capturing Light: At its heart lies the four-story stairwell, serving as both a spatial connector and a canvas for dynamic light sculptures.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  Capturing Light: Light sculptures animate the space through folded planes and clerestory openings.  - Photo credit: Joe Fletcher
Capturing Light: Light sculptures animate the space through folded planes and clerestory openings.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  Capturing Light: Another view of the distinctive light sculptures.  - Photo credit: Joe Fletcher
Capturing Light: Another view of the distinctive light sculptures.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  Capturing Light: The meditation room invites serenity with its interplay of light, shadow, and texture.  - Photo credit: Joe Fletcher
Capturing Light: The meditation room invites serenity with its interplay of light, shadow, and texture.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  Capturing Light: Daytime view of the Meditation Room with skylight above.  - Photo credit: Joe Fletcher
Capturing Light: Daytime view of the Meditation Room with skylight above.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  Capturing Light: Meditation Room at night. - Photo credit: Joe Fletcher
Capturing Light: Meditation Room at night.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture - Capturing Light: The powder room juxtaposes textures and materials to create a chiaroscuro effect, enriching the living spaces with depth and intrigue. - Photo credit: Joe Fletcher
Capturing Light: The powder room juxtaposes textures and materials to create a chiaroscuro effect, enriching the living spaces with depth and intrigue.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture - Capturing Light: A sunken courtyard acts as a light-reflecting oasis.  - Photo credit: Joe Fletcher
Capturing Light: A sunken courtyard acts as a light-reflecting oasis.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  Capturing Light: Color-changing LED installations allow for elegant nighttime experiences.   - Photo credit: Joe Fletcher
Capturing Light: Color-changing LED installations allow for elegant nighttime experiences.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  Tribeca Penthouse: Utilizing durable, unfussy materials and minimal color, the design contrasts with the heavy existing timber posts and beams, while providing a serene environment for the owners' personal curation.  - Photo credit:  Brooke Holm
Tribeca Penthouse: Utilizing durable, unfussy materials and minimal color, the design contrasts with the heavy existing timber posts and beams, while providing a serene environment for the owners' personal curation.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  Tribeca Penthouse: Deep inset shelving in the thickened fireplace wall provides much needed texture and scale for the living area.   - Photo credit:  Brooke Holm
Tribeca Penthouse: Deep inset shelving in the thickened fireplace wall provides much needed texture and scale for the living area. 
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  <p>Tribeca Penthouse: Douglas fir open shelving provides contrast, detail and an intimate place for the family to display books and curios. </p>  - Photo credit:  Brooke Holm

Tribeca Penthouse: Douglas fir open shelving provides contrast, detail and an intimate place for the family to display books and curios.

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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  Tribeca Penthouse: The use of white paint on walls and millwork allows daylight to bounce and reflect light through the apartment. While the color palette is restrained, the material palette provides a textural richness and detail  - Photo credit:  Brooke Holm
Tribeca Penthouse: The use of white paint on walls and millwork allows daylight to bounce and reflect light through the apartment. While the color palette is restrained, the material palette provides a textural richness and detail
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  Tribeca Penthouse: Recesses, wall columns, and soffits were engaged or hidden within cabinetry to provide a visually elegant space.  - Photo credit:  Brooke Holm
Tribeca Penthouse: Recesses, wall columns, and soffits were engaged or hidden within cabinetry to provide a visually elegant space.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  Tribeca Penthouse: The kitchen perfectly showcases how a variety of material textures work within the restrained and elemental color palette. - Photo credit:  Brooke Holm
Tribeca Penthouse: The kitchen perfectly showcases how a variety of material textures work within the restrained and elemental color palette.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  Tribeca Penthouse: Detail of the custom shelving that flanks the primary view of the kitchen.  - Photo credit:  Brooke Holm
Tribeca Penthouse: Detail of the custom shelving that flanks the primary view of the kitchen.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  Tribeca Penthouse: At the apex of the stair, large windows offer panoramic views of the roof terrace and city beyond, providing a captivating conclusion to the journey through this meticulously crafted penthouse retreat.  - Photo credit:  Brooke Holm
Tribeca Penthouse: At the apex of the stair, large windows offer panoramic views of the roof terrace and city beyond, providing a captivating conclusion to the journey through this meticulously crafted penthouse retreat.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture - Tribeca Penthouse: The under-the-stair space was reimagined as a playful hideout, complete with plywood construction, cushions, pillows, and storage for toys and books, adding a whimsical touch to the home. - Photo credit:  Brooke Holm
Tribeca Penthouse: The under-the-stair space was reimagined as a playful hideout, complete with plywood construction, cushions, pillows, and storage for toys and books, adding a whimsical touch to the home.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  Tribeca Penthouse: A large white panel hides the TV and components when not in use and is designed to feel like part of the wall when open.   - Photo credit:  Brooke Holm
Tribeca Penthouse: A large white panel hides the TV and components when not in use and is designed to feel like part of the wall when open.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  <p>Tribeca Penthouse: The primary bathroom's frosted glass enclosures aid in bringing light into the intimate space. </p>  - Photo credit:  Brooke Holm

Tribeca Penthouse: The primary bathroom's frosted glass enclosures aid in bringing light into the intimate space.

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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  Tribeca Penthouse: Custom shelving creates definition and added warmth to the walls  in the primary bedroom. - Photo credit:  Brooke Holm
Tribeca Penthouse: Custom shelving creates definition and added warmth to the walls in the primary bedroom.
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Press kit | 2757-50 - Press release | Min Design Elevates the Everyday with Elegant Architecture - Min Design - Residential Architecture -  Tribeca Penthouse: Custom shelving in the living room offers unique view points.  - Photo credit:  Brooke Holm
Tribeca Penthouse: Custom shelving in the living room offers unique view points.
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