Fall 2023
CARRRE - Collective Action for Readiness, Recovery, and Resilience - was founded following the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria on February 6, 2023, by a group of internationally-based Turkish architects. Koray is a founding member and has been leading the ongoing panel series.
03/13/2023
B-KD's Koray Duman was a part of the Building Museum's Conference panel to discuss a series of programs he co-organized in NYC to provide a toolkit for small and medium-sized NYC-based, BIPOC-led arts entities looking into making the jump into a brick-and-mortar home for their organizations.
06/28/2022
B-KD's Koray Duman sat down with Osman Can Yerebakan in June to discuss B-KD's work with artists, galleries and institutions for Artsy
04/07/2022
B-KD designs new home for Mendes Wood DM Gallery: Mendes Wood DM Galley, opened its new 7,000-square-foot space in Tribeca in May, featuring the inaugural exhibition Nosotros los otros by Paulo Nazareth.
03/04/2021
Koray Duman and Kate Fowle, Director of PS1 Museum will discuss our recent master plan for PS1 as part of the Mid-Atlantic Museum Association's Building Museums 2021 Symposium.
07/14/2020
Büro Koray Duman is profiled as the Next Progressives in Architect Magazine's July issue.
01/16/18
Koray to teach Advanced Studio at Pratt GAUD on Instant Urbanism - Design of a Temporary Cultural Institution
06/23/2023
“Through the eyes of an architect: Fatherhood in the city” is a new column in Esquire Turkey where Koray will write about his experience raising his daughter, Ela, in NYC. The first column appeared in the Spring 2023 Issue.
01/19/2023
Building Hue Spaces is a 5-part series of workshops, panel discussions, and resources to empower POC-led arts entities to dream, plan, and establish stable homes in NYC. This series was launched at the Center for Architecture on January 19, co-produced by B-KD's Koray Duman and in partnership with Museum Hue and AIANY.
05/10/2022
B-KD's Design for S-10 Gym wins the 2022 NYCxDESIGN award for Health + Wellness
05/10/2022
B-KD designed the exhibition for artist Bob Smith's intricate box constructions for Martos Gallery "Art Remains A Witness To A Life" presened 24 suclptures that the artist had created mainly in the 1980's in reaction to the AIDS crisis
11/11/2020
B-KD has been included in AN Interior's top 50 interior architects and designers for 2020.
04/05/2019
Koray Duman contributed an essay, "An Architecture for Cultural Production of American-Muslim Identity", for the Sharjah Biennial 14 catalog - Making New Time
04/02/2019
B-KD is featured in Metropolis Magazine on some of our favorite and most inpiring materials.
10/01/2018
The Village Den is featured in Architectural Digest, Blackbook, Purewow and Dezeen.
10/20/17
New Local: As chair of the New Practice Committee at AIA NY, Koray organized a three day symposium/ workshops, examining new conditions of locality in cities now through the lenses of public space, living and manufacturing
06/04/2023
Koray sat down with journalist Ali Tufan Koc to discuss current urban renewal projects in New York City for Turkey's leading newspaper, Oksijen.
02/15/2022
Social (In)justice and Spatial Practice is an on-going series of panel discussions co-curated by B-KD's Koray Duman that investigates the cultural institution's role in social justice as it relates to architecture, design and urbanism.
04/14/2022
Helena Anrather Gallery opened its new 2,500 square-foot space on Bowery in April, featuring the inagural exhibition "Fulfillment" by Julia Wachtel
05/16/2019
The Publisher's Loft is featured in NY Magazine and Dwell.
03/18/2019
B-KD has been included in AN Interior's top 50 interior architects and designers for 2019.
10/13/17
Design Within Reach Flagship store is included in the Open House New York weekend, as part of a series showcasing projects of 12 emerging practices in NYC
