Attila KIM Architects is the team led by the architect Attila Kim, an architect with extensive experience in the design of exhibitions and cultural events, restoration and architectural projects, nominated three times for the European Union Contemporary Architecture Award, the Mies van der Rohe Award, winner of several national awards at the Bucharest Architecture Biennale, Bucharest Architecture Annual, Transylvania Architecture Biennale, Arhitext Awards, and awarded in 2016 with the Arts and Society Leadership Award by the Aspen Institute for his contribution to Romanian culture. Attila Kim is a founding member of the architecture workshops Studio Kim Bucșa Diaconu (SKBD) and Lundi et Demi. Since 2012 he has been working independently, leading a young and dynamic team, under the name of Attila KIM Architects. The team members are Attila Kim, Alexandru Szűz Pop, Adina Marin, Andreea Precup and Cristina Iordache. Important projects include public buildings, residential buildings, showrooms, exhibitions and fairs, shops and restorations of historical monuments. Starting from 2016, Attila Kim is the Commissioner of Romania at the Venice Biennale.

In 1932, the architect Sady Herivan obtained the building permit for a 2-story house, with an exceptionally elegant silhouette, located on the junction of Aurel Vlaicu and Iustinian streets. The two main facades were designed with different rules, the house being made up of two different volumes, whose composition stands out primarily due to the rounded articulation between the two, an intersection that marks the access to the house and represents also the vertical accent of the building . At the time of construction, the commissioner of the house did not respect the original project of the architect and thus a different project resulted from the authorized one. Fortunately, the internal functional relationships are respected and even during the communist period they are not altered. In 2016, the house was bought by an art collector, with the aim of becoming part of, but also hosting, his permanent collection. Thus, the restoration approach has in the foreground the desire to return the house to its original form, the one imagined by Sady Herivan, especially by realizing the main elements of the facade, omitted during the construction: the modernist continuous window, which emphasized the volume of the balcony on the 1st floor, placed on a high plinth formed by horizontal lines, as in the original facade drawing; the second porthole on the Aurel Vlaicu facade, next to the former entrance to the garage and last but not least, the corner window on the ground floor, initially canceled by a secondary door from the courtyard. The ground floor, which includes the gallery, the workshop and the office set up in the former garage, is a semi-public space, with the possibility of visiting at certain times. The floor consists of the living area, a second office, kitchen and is still in the semi-public circuit intended for both the beneficiary but also occasionally for meetings between curators, artists and collectors. The second floor and the attic are completely private, intended for the family, including the night area and a private living room. The attic was transformed into a living area by interrupting the slab creating the connection with the main staircase, but also by adding an inner courtyard, which transforms it into a luminous oasis. The project aims to create the most suitable context for exhibiting of the artworks in a typical modernist setting, as well as to bring back to life a valuable architectural project.