Architectural concrete facade at golden hour
Architecture & Spatial Design

We Shape The Unbuilt Into Landmark.

Meridian designs landmark buildings, cultural institutions, and urban megastructures across four continents — where raw concrete meets light, shadow, and precision.

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Our Philosophy
Architecture is not the act of enclosing space — it is the discipline of shaping light, choreographing shadow, and engineering the silence between structure and meaning. Every building is a conversation between gravity and intention.
47 Years
Selected Work

Featured Projects

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The Meridian Shard — cultural museum

The Meridian Shard

Cultural Museum — Seoul, 2024

In Progress
Noir Pavilion

Noir Pavilion

Exhibition Space — Berlin

Completed
Gold Tower

Gold Tower

Mixed-Use — Dubai

2023
Void Chapel

Void Chapel

Meditation — Kyoto

2022
Concrete Wave

Concrete Wave

Residential — Lisbon

2024
Aperture Centre

Aperture Centre

Convention — São Paulo

2021
Lumen Tower

Lumen Tower

Office — New York

2023
Observe
Ideate
Sculpt
Deliver
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Observe

We begin with deep contextual research — understanding the site's history, light patterns, cultural significance, and environmental forces. Every project starts not with a sketch, but with a question: what does this place want to become?

Research and observation phase
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Ideate

Concepts emerge from constraint. We explore structural metaphors, material narratives, and spatial sequences through hand drawings, physical models, and computational simulations — iterating until the idea becomes inevitable.

Ideation and concept phase
03

Sculpt

Form finds its resolution through rigorous engineering and obsessive detailing. Concrete curves are computed to millimeter precision. Light shafts are modeled seasonally. Every joint, every surface, every threshold is designed as a ceremonial transition.

Construction and sculpting phase
04

Deliver

The building rises through a partnership of master craftsmen and cutting-edge fabrication. We remain on-site through every pour, every fix, every final adjustment — because the last ten percent is where architecture becomes art.

Final delivery and construction
Recognition

Awards & Impact

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Design Awards
RIBA International Prize AIA Gold Medal Pritzker Prize Nominee Dezeen Award ArchDaily Building of the Year World Architecture Festival Aga Khan Award Mies van der Rohe Award Chicago Athenaeum Frame Award RIBA International Prize AIA Gold Medal Pritzker Prize Nominee Dezeen Award ArchDaily Building of the Year World Architecture Festival Aga Khan Award Mies van der Rohe Award Chicago Athenaeum Frame Award
RIBA International — Grand Prize 2024
AIA Honor Award for Architecture 2023
World Architecture Festival — Future Project 2023
Dezeen — Cultural Building of the Year 2022
ArchDaily — Building of the Year 2022
Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2021
Get In Touch

Let's Build
Something
Enduring.

studio@meridian-arch.com +1 (212) 555-0147 48 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10007