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The archetypical metal–organic framework (MOF), HKUST-1, has been systematically modified in both its organic and inorganic building blocks to introduce diversity in the metal centers and create defects within the network, achieving a variety of bimetallic hierarchical structures. These modifications changed the affinity of the MOFs for acid gases. The introduction of bimetallic sites mostly affects CO2adsorption, while the hierarchical structure generates an increase in SO2uptake capacity, allowing better performance in the separation of binary mixtures of these gases near room temperature. Notably, the synthesized HH-Cu100material exhibited an exceptionally high IAST SO2/CO2(10:90) selectivity of 3420 at 298 K, outperforming benchmark MOFs with open metal sites.