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Honora Shea

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founder @thisbythat
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We celebrated the first fifteen years of the studio this week with friends, team members past and present, and a lot of oysters. Thanks to everyone who came to the studio and the many others who sent well wishes! To be in a room with so many supporters, participants, and inspirations is incredible. The community around the work is the greatest thing about the work. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Photos by @vnina

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A Harvest Moon housewarming for @heartofdinner’s new SoHo studio, lovingly designed by @mkcarchitecture. Hosted by Heart of Dinner founders @yinchang @moonlynntsai and MKCA founder @michaelkchen, the evening celebrated the organization’s first permanent space supporting its ongoing work addressing food insecurity and isolation among New York City elders, with a table full of longtime friends and advocates.

Michael, who often talks about the meaning behind the making, remarked that evening that the power of design is in giving shared values a tangible form in the world. This effort, designed and built at cost with help and donations from @a05studio, @ladiesandgentlemenstudio, @safar_rugs, @dahingplantsnyc and more, is an example of architecture as an act of care, a living thing by and for community. Since 2020, Heart of Dinner has delivered over 250,000 meals to vulnerable Asian elders, and this space will help them to continue that work.

MKCA team @michaelkchen @harpernatasha @_inmo_omni_, plateware generously provided by @tortugaforma @truegenuine, florals by @fdk_florals, photos by @kelseycherry ✨

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A warm meal brings comfort and joy, especially when hand delivered to someone vulnerable and hungry. We are honored to see Tortugaware dishes on the table for a Mid Autumn Festival feast hosted by @heartofdinner and @mkcarchitecture

Heart of Dinner founded by @moonlynntsai @yinchang has delivered 250,000 meals to Asian elders since 2020.

Photos by @kelseycherry

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For the past year we have been working on a special space for the extraordinary @heartofdinner, an organization that combats food insecurity and social isolation with weekly deliveries of nourishment and care, hand delivered to vulnerable Asian elders in New York and Los Angeles. Since starting in 2020, they’ve made 250,000 deliveries of beautifully decorated care packages with culturally comforting meals sourced from small businesses and local farms that come with handwritten notes.

The space we’ve designed with @moonlynntsai and @yinchang is a studio that functions as their headquarters and converts to a venue for workshops and a place to gather with donors, volunteers, and friends. It has been lovingly built out at cost and with donations by our friends @a05studio, @ladiesandgentlemenstudio, @safar_rugs, @dahingplantsnyc and others. We launched the space this week with a dinner to celebrate the mid-autumn festival, styled by @fdk_florals and featuring dishware from @tortugaforma. More on the space to come!

We always strive to connect making with meaning, and we often talk about how powerful design can be when we can give shared values a tangible form in the world. Collaborations like this are a gift. We are so proud to have made a small contribution to this exciting new chapter for an incredible organization.

MKCA team of @harpernatasha and @_inmo_omni_ with support from @thisbythat. Photos by @kelseycherry

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Felt like home. Now, as the summer is really drawing to an end, the idea of the perfect summer is what I’ve been thinking about and I suppose in many ways this came pretty close. Thanks NYC.

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For the past decade, @PublicArtCompany, led by @Raffileh, has curated the prolific @Coachella Art Program that welcomes large-scale installations to the desert every year.

This year, we experienced three new installations that each explore form, light, and movement.

“Visage Brut” by @the_ladg, a soaring steel structure that treats architectural elements as existing on a spectrum

“Starry Eyes” by @ar__k__c, a field of cactus-like forms that offer shade by day and glow as lanterns by night, turning the desert into a shared spatial experience

“Maze” by @sabine_marcelis, a glowing, winding structure that invites movement while creating moments of pause

Read the full features on flaunt.com.

Photographed by @Lance.Gerber

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Photos from a fun Lunar New Year event hosted by @mkcarchitecture to support the charity @heartofdinner. At the party, guests decorated bags which will become part of care packages delivered to the homes of older Asian-Americans in need.

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Over the years, we’ve often celebrated the Lunar New Year as a studio with a dumpling-making party. This year, we broadened the ritual, inviting friends from the design community to join us in decorating delivery bags for Heart of Dinner, an extraordinary organization whose SoHo headquarters and project space we are currently designing.

This is a dark time in America, especially for immigrant communities who are under assault and feeling vulnerable and afraid. Heart of Dinner was founded in 2020, during another moment of deep uncertainty, by @moonlynntsai and @yinchang with an initial goal of delivering 20,000 care packages with culturally familiar groceries and meals to homebound Asian seniors isolated by the pandemic. Today, they have made *250,000* deliveries, each one full of nourishment and care, contained in a lovingly decorated bag and accompanied with a handwritten note.

The space we are designing for Heart of Dinner will support this work and more. It will be a place for making, gathering, bag decorating, fighting food insecurity, and building community. At a time when many of us are asking how our work can have real impact, these kinds of gatherings are small but mighty examples. Friends coming together to put creativity in service of care can make a real difference.

The Year of the Horse is about movement, transformation, and urgent positive change. We are proud to be working with this organization, to host in this way, to contribute, and, yes, to test and enjoy a few dumpling recipes too: Classic pork and shrimp, steamed fish, and smoked tofu with mushroom and garlic chive.

We at MKCA wish you and yours a happy, prosperous, and transformational #yearofthehorse. Please follow @heartofdinner if you would like to support their work, or look for ways in your own community to show care and celebrate the diverse, multicultural fabric that truly makes this country great.

A great big thank you to @rebeccasmeyne for the fab photos and videos.

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One (or two) nights in Bangkok - Thailand is on 🔥
Vintage hotel vibes // DC Collection // Saloni’s birthday // DIB museum opening // Wonderfruit

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Happy holidays from This by That and MKCA! 🍾✨

Thank you to our clients, collaborators, and friends who joined us at @mkcarchitecture’s beautiful Manhattan studio to ring in the season and celebrate @thisbythat’s official move to New York.

Cheers to 2025, and we can’t wait to see you in the new year!

With gratitude,
Honora & Michael

📸 @rebeccasmeyne

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Summer so far...Happy 4th!

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