What Leong Leong does

Leong Leong is an award-winning architecture firm founded in 2009 and co-led by brothers Chris Leong and Dominic Leong from a studio on the 8th floor of the historic Bayard-Condict Building at 65 Bleecker Street in NoHo, New York. The firm offers architectural design, interior design, urban and master planning, and exhibition design across residential, commercial, cultural, civic, mixed-use, and institutional project typologies. Its client base spans fashion and lifestyle brands (3.1 Phillip Lim, Everlane, Cuyana, R13, ESSX), real estate developers (Brookfield Properties, Flora Development, Betaworks Studios), nonprofits and cultural institutions (Los Angeles LGBT Center, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Met Costume Institute, Guggenheim Bilbao, Architectural League of New York, Creative Time), and government bodies (NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development).

The firm's technical portfolio emphasizes modular kit-of-parts systems, reciprocal-frame construction adapted from traditional Native Hawaiian architecture, passive-sustainability strategies (super-insulation, energy recovery, daylight cores), and material innovation (compressed cork, titanium-coated stainless steel, Kvadrat textile systems). Proprietary design features include movable institutional gallery walls on ceiling tracks, flexible gateway marker systems, and climate-responsive urban canopies integrating stormwater reuse. The practice has executed more than 50 projects across at least 12 U.S. cities and international locations including Seoul, Lisbon, Santo Domingo, Yangon, Hawai'i, and Copenhagen, including the U.S. Pavilion at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale and the 183,700-square-foot Anita May Rosenstein Campus for the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

Leong Leong operates as a fee-for-service professional services practice with no disclosed external funding, parent company, or product revenue. Projects are acquired through direct commissions, design competitions (Venice Biennale, Gateways to Chinatown), government RFP processes (NYC HPD), and institutional partnerships. Marketing relies almost entirely on earned media coverage in NYT, Vogue, Architectural Digest, and Wallpaper, plus participation in exhibitions, biennales, and academic lectures, with the firm's website functioning as its primary portfolio. Pricing is project-specific and not publicly disclosed; customer concentration leans on a mix of high-prestige one-off cultural commissions and recurring anchor clients in affordable housing and retail.

Name

Leong Leong

Legal name

Leong Leong

Website

https://leong-leong.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Leong Leong is a New York-based architecture firm designing cultural, residential, commercial, and civic projects for fashion brands, nonprofits, museums, and government clients across the U.S. and internationally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Architecture and Design Services: Leong Leong generates revenue through commissions for architectural design services across residential, commercial, cultural, civic, and mixed-use project types. Fees are structured as professional services for design, master planning, exhibition design, and interior architecture. Projects range from small-scale installations to large multi-story developments.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Leong Leong is an architecture firm providing comprehensive design services across residential, commercial, cultural, civic, and institutional project types. The firm delivers architecture, interior design, urban and master planning, exhibition design, retail flagship design, and amenity design for clients including fashion and lifestyle brands, cultural institutions, nonprofits, government bodies, and real estate developers. Projects range from small-scale installations and single-family homes to large multi-story mixed-use campuses and international biennale pavilions.

Product overview

Leong Leong is an award-winning architecture firm offering comprehensive design services across multiple typologies. The firm's practice encompasses architectural design, interior design, urban planning, and exhibition design. Project types span residential (single-family homes, multi-family housing, affordable housing, senior housing), commercial (retail flagships, offices, co-working spaces), cultural (galleries, museums, theaters, civic installations), and institutional (campuses, educational facilities, community centers). Notable projects include Everlane retail flagships, 3.1 Phillip Lim stores, Betaworks Studios, ONX Studio, the Anita May Rosenstein Campus, and exhibition designs for the Met and Venice Biennale. The firm operates as a unified practice without distinct product lines or modules.

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Products and services

• Architectural Design Services Full-service architecture design and execution across residential, commercial, cultural, civic, and institutional project types, from initial concept through construction administration. Delivered to enterprise clients including retail brands, cultural institutions, real estate developers, government bodies, and nonprofits.
• Interior Design Interior architecture and design services for galleries, retail spaces, workspaces, and residential interiors, integrating custom millwork, material selections, and bespoke spatial interventions for fashion brands, galleries, and developers.
• Urban Planning and Master Planning Large-scale urban design and master planning services including cultural districts, mixed-use developments, community-focused institutional campuses, and accessibility vision plans for developers, nonprofits, and cultural organizations.
• Exhibition Design Exhibition architecture and spatial design for museums, galleries, and cultural institutions including the Met Costume Institute, Guggenheim Bilbao, Cooper Hewitt, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and biennale pavilions.
• Retail Flagship Design Specialized retail environment design including flagship stores, concept stores, and brand experience spaces for fashion and lifestyle brands across multiple cities such as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seoul.
• Residential Amenity Design Interior design for residential amenity spaces including lobbies, co-working areas, fitness centers, and communal spaces within multi-family residential towers for private real estate developers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Flora project generates 82 studios, 190 one-bedrooms, 80 two-bedrooms, and 11 three-bedroom units across 311,450 s.f. of gross area.
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers21 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature7 records

Partnerships

24 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Guy Nordenson and AssociatescoreTechnology or IntegrationStructural engineering collaborator on multiple projects including The Endless Gateway (Chinatown competition) and A Home for Many housing proposal. Provides structural engineering expertise for complex architectural forms.
• MTWTFcoreTechnology or IntegrationPlace identity collaborator on The Endless Gateway and Senior Affordable Housing projects. Contributes design expertise for brand and identity systems.
• Project ProjectscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDesign collaborator on 'Living in America: Frank Lloyd Wright, Harlem, and Modern Housing' exhibition and 'Graphic Design: Now in Production' exhibition for the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt.
• Siki ImcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerFashion designer collaborator on Soft Brutalism concept store. Co-designed the radically transformed retail space featuring a soy-based spray foam ramp-form.
• Jiminie HaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborator on the Field-Objects installation for the Architectural League of New York's Beaux Arts Ball at Brooklyn Army Terminal.
• ARUP SoundLabcoreTechnology or IntegrationSound design collaborator on 'Past Futures, Present, Futures' exhibition at Storefront for Art and Architecture and on the TOPO immersive installation at Sight Unseen.
• JCJ ArchitecturecoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerExecutive architect on the Senior Affordable Housing project and the Center for Community and Entrepreneurship (AAFE) project in Queens.
• TranssolarcoreTechnology or IntegrationClimate engineering collaborator on Senior Affordable Housing and A Home for Many projects, providing passive and energy-efficient design strategy expertise.
• SCAPEcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLandscape architecture collaborator on the Senior Affordable Housing project, contributing to the design of open spaces and community gardens.
• Killefer Flammang ArchitectscoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerExecutive architect on the Anita May Rosenstein Campus (Los Angeles LGBT Center) and the Ariadne Getty Foundation Senior Housing Complex projects.
• Los Angeles LGBT CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary client and nonprofit partner for both the Anita May Rosenstein Campus (183,700 s.f.) and the Ariadne Getty Foundation Senior Housing Complex — world-class LGBTQ community campuses in East Hollywood, Los Angeles.
• The Doe FundminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSocial equity partner of The Travel Agency cannabis dispensary franchise. The Doe Fund supports individuals impacted by incarceration and homelessness, and receives employment and support services through the partnership.
• The Travel AgencycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCannabis dispensary brand with multiple locations. Leong Leong has designed three locations (Union Square, downtown Brooklyn, and Fifth Avenue) as a repeat client, with social equity commitments embedded in the brand.
• Dot DashcoreTechnology or IntegrationLighting design collaborator on Betaworks Studios in New York's Meatpacking neighborhood.
• Architectural League of New YorkcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAnnual Beaux Arts Ball commissioner of the Field-Objects installation. Leong Leong has produced multiple projects through this institutional relationship.
• Herman MillerminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCreative partner for the U.S. Pavilion at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale (OfficeUS project), providing furniture and workplace design expertise.
• Storefront for Art and ArchitecturecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary institutional partner and commissioner for the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and multiple exhibition projects including NEWFAR and Past Futures, Present, Futures.
• NYC Department of Housing Preservation & DevelopmentcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment client for the Senior Affordable Housing proposal and The Norma affordable homeownership project in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
• Brookfield PropertiescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDeveloper client for Third at Bankside residential tower amenity interior design — a 450-unit tower along the Harlem River in the South Bronx.
• Amorim CorkminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMaterial development and production partner for Lily Pad installation at City Cortex in Lisbon, Portugal. Amorim is the world's leading cork producer supporting the sustainable design research.
• After Oceanic Built Environments LabcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-organizer with Leong Leong of Hālau Kūkulu Hawai'i — a collaborative project on Native Hawaiian architecture featured at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Triennial. Led by Sean Connelly and Amir Mirza.
• KvadratminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCommissioning partner for Kīpuka, a textile-based spatial system developed for Kvadrat's annual ReThink program exploring sustainable materials and planetary futures. Debuted at 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen 2024.
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York) / Guggenheim Museum BilbaocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint initiative partners for the 'Architecture Effects' exhibition featuring Float Tank 01. The exhibition explored what makes architecture more than building.
• Sky High FarmminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLeong Leong is collaborating with Sky High Farm on a strategic plan for their transition to 560 acres of land in Ancram, NY, focused on ecological resilience, regenerative farming, and community food systems.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• NADAAA: NADAAA is a Boston/NYC practice of similar small scale working across cultural and residential architecture with a strong design-research identity similar to Leong Leong's.
• Standard Architecture: Standard is a Los Angeles–based small architecture practice working on cultural and civic projects at a similar scale to Leong Leong.
• MOS Architects: MOS Architects is a small New York–based practice with comparable scale working on housing, civic, and cultural projects with strong design experimentation.
• nARCHITECTS: nARCHITECTS is a small NYC practice known for housing innovation and adaptive reuse, overlapping with Leong Leong on residential and affordable/community housing typologies.
• SO-IL: SO-IL is a small New York–based architecture practice with a comparable scale and profile, working across cultural, residential, and educational projects with an emphasis on material innovation and global reach.
• WORKac: WORKac is a small NYC architecture firm working across cultural, civic, and commercial projects, with comparable scale and recognition in cultural commissions.
• TenBerke: Formerly Deborah Berke Partners, TenBerke is a NYC architecture firm with comparable size, cultural/hospitality work, and prestigious client roster including museums and developers.

Broad incumbents

• Snøhetta: Snøhetta is a much larger global architecture firm with comparable cultural/civic commissions (e.g., cultural pavilion work, public cultural installations) but broader scope and resources.
• Ennead Architects: Ennead (formerly Polshek Partnership) is a larger NYC firm known for cultural and institutional commissions including museums and libraries, comparable in project type to Leong Leong's cultural work.
• Adjaye Associates: Adjaye Associates is a larger global architecture practice known for major cultural buildings, museums, and community-oriented projects, comparable in mission and typology to Leong Leong's portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

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