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Architecture and PlanningNew York, United States11-50 Employees
Tsao & McKown Architects is an architecture and planning firm based in Brooklyn, New York. Founded by Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown, the practice has worked on a broad range of project types and scales since its first commission in 1985, spanning interior spaces, individual elements, buildings, and urban plans. The firm emphasizes the relationship between human-scale experience and the built environment, seeking exterior forms that emerge from interior considerations and vice versa, across a global set of cultures and locales. Its work is characterized by attention to tactile engagement and contextual sensitivity, aiming to inform each new project through diverse past experiences. In recent years, the practice received recognition in the interior design community for a project in Shanghai called The Living Room by Octave, highlighting its engagement with communal spaces and interior environments.