Kyung Sook Gemma Kim, AIA

Gemma Kim, Partner, first joined RAMSA in 2003. Taking an integrative approach to her work, she enjoys the unique challenges presented by every phase of a project and takes pride in finding creative solutions that are both functional and beautiful.

Bridging function and aesthetics, Gemma designs spaces that are comfortable, inspiring, and represent her clients’ values. With an eye for detail, she ensures the entire design process—from concept through construction—is calibrated to support clients’ goals and realize their shared vision, no matter the project type.

As partner, Gemma is instrumental in realizing many of the firm’s luxury apartment buildings and mixed-use developments. Her work includes the limestone-clad New York City towers at 30 Park Place, which combines a five-star hotel and high-end condos, and 150 East 78th Street, an apartment house that elevates the vernacular of the Upper East Side’s historic townhouses without overwhelming them. In South Korea, elegant brick wraps Shinsegae Namsan to unite corporate offices, retail, and a multipurpose performance venue for the community. In Chicago, the 70-story masonry tower One Bennett Park returns a sense of traditional elegance to the city’s skyline.

Gemma’s current work include the North Market Hotel, a hospitality project in Charleston, South Carolina that contextually responds to the single-family housing of the surrounding historic district, and master planning for a project in California.

Gemma’s work has been published in Turbulence (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011), and exhibited at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair and the Architectural League of New York.