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.

Romanian Design Week is the most important national event that brings together all fields of creative industries. All the RDW editions so far have assumed yet another important role in Bucharest's cultural life: that of revealing and presenting to the public for the first time unused, forgotten, on the verge of change or newly completed buildings. The 2024 edition came with a brave proposal and a difficult design theme: the exhibition was organized in the building that housed the Cina restaurant, one of the most emblematic buildings of Bucharest, an architectural, urban and historical reference, which for more than 20 years has been closed to the public. After being in an advanced state of decay, renovation works have already started today. Over the past decades, started and abandoned architectural interventions have completely transformed the building, partially unifying the levels and introducing concrete and metal reinforcement elements. The building was used 10-15 years ago several times for parties, during which graffiti works appeared on the walls, signed by artists who in the meantime became internationally known. The exhibition project, proposes both from a curatorial and architectural point of view, the integration of these large-scale graffiti works. The exhibition divided on three different levels, according to the curatorial and organizational structures, by using minimal resources, proposes an intervention with an assumed ephemeral character. The main architectural element is the white, translucent curtain, used both to provide a backdrop for framed photographs and to define new architectural spaces, joining two levels and forming a stage for mannequins. The reuse of scenographic elements from previous editions is one of the pillars of the exhibition architecture that our office has established since the first collaboration with RDW in 2013, thus we can find in new formulas the metal frames made in 2014, the neon signs purchased in 2018 or the plants used in 2023.