Girimun Architects

Who We Are

Girimun is a team of creative thinkers.

We are award-winning architects, master planners and interior designers with a shared passion
and solid experience on place making and designing desirable cities.

We care that our touch helps shape a better sustainable world.

Our Vision

We believe in collaborative and responsive design approach to create places where people want to be.
We cherish smart innovative ideas that perform for clients, create positive impact and inspire the community.

How we work

We approach each and every project from our clients’ perspective and with their ambitions in mind.
We become a partner in their challenge, from where we draw inspirations to unleash
opportunities through the design process often delivering the unexpected. 

Our design results from the right combination of creative vision, commercial sense and lasting value.

Our Story

Established in 2007 with a core expertise on large-scale mixed-use commercial developments, we have developed a wide portfolio of projects including leisure and retail destinations, office towers and work place environments, hospitality-driven projects, as well as urban regeneration schemes.

Since its inception we have been collaborating with real estate developers, investors and consultants in different continents and cultures, giving us a broader perspective on good practice and design excellence around the world. 

Passionate about architecture, cities, nature and photography, our founder Mauro Resnitzky is an avid globetrotter whose career spans a dozen of countries through South America, Europe and Asia. In the past he has been a key figure in helping prestigious international firms establish their Asia Pacific presence and deliver award-winner projects in China, India, Thailand, Vietnam and elsewhere.

Our People

As a multi-cultural diverse group of people, we tune our collective expertise to the context where we work.
These are the professionals who helped shape our team past and present.

  • Administration
  • Cheung Chui Fung
  • Jessica Tse
  • Lisa Yung
  • Louise Wong
  • Maria Soldedad Ferrazzi
  • Phoebe Zhang
  • Zhang Ying
  • Architects
  • Alejandro Sanchez Soriano
  • Hong Feng Chen
  • Ignacio Diez Aguirre
  • Ivan Chen
  • Jeffrey Gagnon
  • Joonsuk Suh
  • Li Zhou
  • Rex Han
  • Roy Oei
  • Stefano Tronci
  • Yanbin Qian
  • Interior Designers
  • Alan Ng
  • Chu Cho Tak
  • Dolphin Chan
  • Edison Chen
  • Mini Shek
  • Mow Yung Mo Pang
  • Sunny Yu
  • Architectural Designers
  • Alan Lee
  • Alex Yeon
  • Andy Lee Chun Kit
  • Arvi Kandid Alibi
  • Bosco So
  • Cecil Xu
  • Cheung Kai Cheong
  • Danny Jiang
  • Dennis Leung
  • Elizabeth Tiangha
  • Ellen He Le
  • Jano Felinto
  • Lei Mei Yan
  • Phoebe Huang Yu-Shan
  • Piotr Gryko
  • Po Tin
  • Rachel Sit
  • Riccardo Somaini
  • Ruth Nolasco
  • Sammy Cheung
  • Sam Ka Yiu Chan
  • Thitinart Kaochim
  • Tirupattur Abeer Basha
  • Interns
  • Hui Kai Nam
  • Ivan Chan
  • Ka Hing Li
  • Luo Bin Robin
  • Kunyan Wei
  • Paula Martinez Miguel
  • Tony Chung
  • Tony Ka Ho Hung
  • Tracy Huang
  • Yixia Xu
  • Zeng Anpei

Who we work with

What They Say About Us

In an effort to adapt our complex Grand Gateway 66 to new realities, a major revitalisation program with target completion by late 2019 has been put in motion. One that requires in-depth understanding of new demands and trends combined with sensitive strategic planning skills that would allow for minimum disturbance of normal business operation once renovation works are in progress.

Girimun Architects have attained tremendous achievement in re-planning the mall, especially on the integration of all zones of the building and its connections to metro, and in particular the existing annex mall, which was once operated as a department store. Apart from directly channeling major pedestrian flow from metro lines at basement, the new spatial arrangement and visual connections allows for a seamless and total integration of the annex into the whole building offer.

Going through the revitalisation planning exercise for both main mall and annex, Mauro and his team cleverly reshuffles valuable commercial areas, replacing once silent spaces at annex by the newly created flagship stores at the new gateway.

We trust the Grand Gateway revitalisation program will be very fruitful and we all look forward to witness this rejuvenating transformation and to experience the new “old” landmark of Shanghai.

Patrick KK Chan

General Manager Grand Gateway 66 , Hang Lung Properties

The mixed-use master plan project Green Dunes by Girimun Architects is rational, buildable , believable and with a very strong public realm that knits everything together in a unique way.

Jury of WAN Future Mixed-use Award 2014

Brian Honda, Christopher Choa, David Bailey & Pascal Wensink