YY Projects Ltd
YY Projects is a quiet Hong Kong–based architecture and interiors studio led by Wing Yuen and Jonathan Yeung. We approach every project through an architectural lens, seeking an honest and refined balance between form and function. Our work—spanning residential, adaptive reuse, and exhibitions—is defined by a simple, considered rigor. Through disciplined detailing and tuned light, we create spaces that are precise, balanced, and intentionally quiet.
       
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Unit 7, 9/F, Decca Industrial Centre
12 Kut Shing St, Chai Wan
by appointment only


Projects

041.VB 
Biennale Architettura 2025, Hong Kong Pavilion  
Venice, Italy
Exhibition
Curatorial Team & Project Managers
Completed 2025

650.SF
Belmont Private Residence  
San Francisco, USA
Single-Family House Renovation
Completed 2026

852.TP
Tai Po Townhouse  
Hong Kong SAR
Single-Family Townhouse Renovation
Completed 2025

619.SD
San Diego Loft & Gallery  
San Diego, USA
Mixed-Use Adaptive Reuse
Ongoing

852.TKT
Re:FIND Tai Kok Tsui  
Hong Kong SAR
Community Installation
Completed 2025-2026

099.JPY
Villa in Kagoshima  
Kagoshima, Japan
Private Villa Development
Design & Research Completed 2025

66-02.BKK
Bangkok Design Week
Projecting Future Heritage: A Hong Kong Archive  
Bangkok, Thailand
Exhibition
Curatorial Team & Project Managers
Completed 2026

852.WC
Hillside Apartment  
Hong Kong SAR
Apartment Renovation
Completed 2024

852.CW
Office
Industrial Building Unit Adaptive Reuse
Completed 2026

86.LY
Long You Public Art Installation  
Long You, China
Installation
Feasibility & Design Research Completed 2026, on pause

617.AU
Auburndale Townhouse  
Boston, USA
Single-Family Townhouse Renovation
Completed 2023

852.SW
Test Site: An exhibition for the Project “Social Condenser Extraordinaire: The Municipal Services Buildings of Hong Kong”   
Exhibition Design
Completed 2024

852.HH
Hung Hom Apartment  
Hong Kong SAR
Apartment Renovation
Completed 2025

082.TKY
Unending Roof House  
Japan
Habitation Research Proposal
Design & Research Completed 2023

852.KLT.2
Kowloon Tong Apartment 2  
Hong Kong SAR
Apartment Renovation
Completed 2026

852.KLT.1
Kowloon Tong Apartment 1
Hong Kong SAR
Partial Apartment Renovation
Completed 2024

0514.YZ
House in Yangzhou  
Yangzhou, China
Single-Family House Ground-Up
Completed 2023

0571.HZ
Hangzhou Apartment  
Hangzhou, China
Apartment Renovation
Design Completed 2024

212.NYC
Lower East Side Apartment  
New York City, USA
Partial Apartment Renovation
Completed 2023

852.QB
Quarry Bay Apartment  
Hong Kong SAR
Apartment Renovation
Design Completed 2023

313.MI
Community Art Canopy
Michigan, USA
Art Canopy
Design & Research Completed 2024

852.HV
Happy Valley Apartment 
Hong Kong SAR
Apartment Renovation
Design Completed 2024


Editorial

our research is a continuous dialogue between writing and practice. featuring over 60 editorial contributions to archdaily alongside independent interviews and monographs, our work examines the intersection of heritage, materiality, and the evolving role of the architect.

selected features

  • Architecture, Design and the Cultural Flows Across East and West, Kalavinka Viewpoints #51, 2026.
  • Hillside Apartment, LEIBAL, 2025.
  • Space and Void / Architecture and Life, Artron Interview, 2023.
  • Contemporary Living — Year Book 2026, Beta-Plus Publishing, 2025.

curatorial, museums, & exhibition

  • Forum, Depot, Maze: Toward a Plural Ecology of Museums, ArchDaily, 2026
  • Architecture Details 101 in Venice: Carlo Scarpa and David Chipperfield in Dialogue Across Time, ArchDaily, 2025

adaptive reuse & heritage

  • Dialogue with the Code: Calibrating Standards for Adaptive Reuse to Thrive, ArchDaily, 2025.
  • Village in the Vertical City: Tai Hang and the Afterlife of Vernacular Hong Kong, ArchDaily, 2025.
  • Heritage in Motion: Bangkok’s Buildings That Continue to Become, ArchDaily, 2026.
  • How to Adapt Static Structures for New Demands ? Lessons from SoHo in New York City and Wong Chuk Hang in Hong Kong, ArchDaily, 2024.

materiality & tectonics

  • The Illusion of Level: Detailing for Water in “Flat” Architecture, ArchDaily, 2025.
  • Unwrapped Interiors: A Case for Material Authenticity and Clarity, ArchDaily, 2025
  • Timber Tectonics: 10 Projects Rethinking Wood Construction in Contemporary China, ArchDaily, 2025

our broader archive includes over 60 published editorial contributions and research inquiries. for a comprehensive list of our written work or to request specific research dossiers, please contact us.


Awards

RE:TKT Community Installation Open Call 02
Winner
2025

50th Nisshin Kogyo Architectural Design Competition
Merit Award
2024

Ann Arbor Famers Market Canopy Open Call 
Finalist
2025

Panasonic (China) Living Space Competition
Bronze Prize
2024

HKRI FLEXhome+ Interior Design Competition
Finalist
2024

The Home Competition
Honorable Mention
2021



Wing. Yuen

Co-Founder

M.Arch, Harvard GSD
B.A. (Arch), UC Berkeley

Lecturer, Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi)
Project Manager, Hong Kong Pavilion, Venice Biennale Architettura 2025–26

Wing has practiced at NADAAA, Weiss/Manfredi, IwamotoScott, and Neri&Hu. She specializes in commercial and cultural adaptive reuse, including the Google Tech Offices conversion in Chelsea, New York, and the Golden Gate Theatre adaptive reuse in San Francisco. She has taught at Harvard GSD and The University of Hong Kong.


Jonathan Yeung

Co-Founder

M.Arch (Dist), Harvard GSD
B.A. (Arch) (Highest Honors), UC Berkeley

Lecturer, The University of Hong Kong
Editor, ArchDaily
Board Director, Harvard Club of Hong Kong

Jonathan has previously practiced at Toshiko Mori Architect, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Sasaki, teamLab, and Sidell Pakravan Architects. He specializes in private residences and boutique offices, with an emphasis on bespoke and custom detailing—including homes in the Hamptons, Karuizawa (Japan), and Maine, as well as the Axel Springer Haus office in SoHo, New York. He has also lectured at Kyoto Seika University and the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi).
Architecture & InteriorDesign ConsultancyResearch & Editorial

YY PROJECTS 


Wing. YuenJonathan Yeung+852 | Hong Kong SAR

650.SF

Project Name:
Belmont Private Residence

Project Type:
Single-Family House Renovation
Project Location:
San Francisco, California

Project Status:
Completed 2026
Project Size:
2000 SF



Collaborators: N/A
Photographs by: YY Projects
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Belmont Private Residence is a full gut renovation for a young professional family—first-time single-family homeowners transitioning from apartment living. The project focuses on building a subtle, quiet, and comfortably balanced environment: calm surfaces, clear junctions, and a level of execution that feels “finished” without feeling loud.

A key opportunity lay in the Bay Area climate and the spatial latitude of a detached house. New skylights were strategically placed to deepen daylight across the plan and bring a softer, more consistent brightness into the core of the home. But the project’s true anchor was the existing roof structure: beautifully aged timber rafters and ceiling boards that the clients were intent on preserving and celebrating. Rather than treating the ceiling as a background, the design worked from it—plan geometry, partitions, and alignments were developed in parallel with the reflected ceiling plan, with spatial divisions often driven by the ceiling’s grid and structure.

Lighting became the central technical and atmospheric challenge. With modest ceiling heights, conventional downlights would have introduced glare and harsh contrast, while visually flattening the ceiling into a field of holes. After iterative studies in 3D modeling and lighting simulation, adjustable uplight wall sconces were selected as the primary strategy: keeping the ceiling plane clean, delivering an even and comfortable indirect glow, and—crucially—allowing the timber ceiling to remain present and luminous rather than receding into shadow.
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