Eight years. Two cities. A body of work that has quietly, then suddenly, become impossible to ignore. Wangan Studio arrives in London not with a press release energy, but with the measured confidence of a practice that has already proved its point elsewhere.
Founded on a philosophy that is almost radical in its simplicity – that architecture, interiors, branding, and experience are a single, continuous act of authorship – Wangan Studio has spent almost a decade demonstrating what that looks like in practice.
Image credit: Gina Restaurant, designed by Wangan Studio
The result is a body of work that reads less like a portfolio and more like a point of view. The Ara Güler Museum and Leica Showroom. Monochrome Brasserie. Gina Restaurant. Award-winning projects, each one a complete universe unto itself — space, brand, and experience conceived simultaneously, delivered coherently.
“Over the years we have strategically built a strong presence across Eastern and Western Europe,” says co-founder Kutay Yorulmaz. “London has always been part of that trajectory. But it’s also a market unto itself — one you have to be fully present in to operate properly.”
London, then, is not an expansion so much as an inevitability. A natural third pillar in a system that has, since its inception, been designed to operate at a European scale.
Image credit: Wangan Studio
The timing is not incidental. Across hospitality, retail and real estate, clients are asking more of design than they once did – moving away from surface-level decoration toward fully realised, experience-led concepts where space and brand arrive together, as one. Wangan has been building toward this moment for the better part of a decade.
“Istanbul, Paris and now London are not isolated studios,” says co-founder Kerem Özerler. “They are connected points in a single system that allows us to operate with consistency and clarity across regions. Our ambition is to build strong, permanent pillars in the key hospitality markets globally – and this is the next one.”
There is, in that statement, the particular kind of confidence that comes only from having built something real.
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Main image credit: Wangan Studio
