Bean Buro

bean stands for between exchanges of architectural narratives. the studio is an emerging architecture and interiors practice from london and paris, led by lorène faure and kenny kinugasa-tsui, with a team of international designers to provide architecture, interior, installation, furniture, product and masterplanning design services. the hong kong studio was opened in 2013. the diversity of the practice with its collaborators reinforces a core vision for the practice: to respond to the exchanges of global cultural narratives, incorporating overlapping design disciplines specializing in the social, economical and cultural production of urban spaces. we believe architecture is an emotional, spatial experience produced by both the user and the author. our design methodologies stem from the observation, speculation and analysis of contextual narratives. these narratives, or ‘stories’, generate dynamic exchanges of historical, environmental, cultural and social factors, resulting in highly