In the presence of Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, Valérie Pécresse and President of the Île-de-France Region, Gilles Pécout, BIG virtually laid down 1 st stone for PARIS PARC via an immersive VR experience. The building is dedicated to innovation and entrepreneurship at Sorbonne University at the heart of the Pierre and Marie Curie Campus and will be open to all disciplines, researchers, students and alumni of the Sorbonne University Alliance.
NEWS
OCT 21ST, 2019 - BJARKE INGELS’ TED TALK IS AN ARCHITECT’S GUIDE TO LIVING ON MARS
Earlier this year at TED, Bjarke Ingels presented Mars Science City, currently being developed in Dubai. By exploring the building technologies that humanity would need to reside & thrive on the Red Planet, our Martian city prototype also addresses 8 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, related to the built environment of our Blue Planet. View the full TED talk, now available online here.
OCT 15TH, 2019 - AMAZON TO ‘ANCHOR’ EAST SIDE TOWER IN BERLIN
Amazon is confirmed as the anchor tenant for East Side Tower, designed by BIG with developer EDGE. The 140m tall high-rise in Friedrichshain, Berlin will have 28 of 35 floors dedicated to the tech giant and its growing team of up to 3,400 employees. East Side Tower is scheduled to complete in 2023, with move-in planned for 2024.
OCT 14TH, 2019 - VOTE PEBBLE COLLECTION FOR INTERIOR DESIGN BEST OF YEAR AWARDS
BIG and d line’s Pebble collection is up for public voting in the Interior Design Best of Year Awards. Pebble is our contemporary collection of bathroom accessories that include toilet paper holders, shower shelf, towel rail, coat hooks and more, each beautifully crafted and handmade using 50-70% recycled steel. Vote for Pebble in the “bath fittings + fixtures” category by Oct 18th here.
OCT 8TH, 2019 - AMPHIBIOUS AFFORDABLE STUDENT HOMES LAUNCH WITH NEW URBAN RIGGER FLEET
Coinciding with the C40 World Mayors Summit hosted in Copenhagen this year, a new fleet of Urban Riggers are unveiled in an opening launch party on Wednesday, October 9th. By using upcycled shipping containers powered by solar panels and hydro-sourced heating technology, Urban Rigger creates 72 affordable student residences docked in the Copenhagen harbor. Image by Nils Koenning.
OCT 7TH, 2019 - EAST SIDE COASTAL RESILIENCY PROJECT GETS NYC PLANNING COMMISSION APPROVAL
The first phase of The Dryline, East Side Coastal Resiliency project (ESCR), is brought one step closer to reality after the New York City Planning Commission voted to approve the plan this week. ESCR was proposed after Hurricane Sandy and is an effort to protect lower Manhattan from flooding and rising sea-levels attributed to climate change.
“The ESCR project responds to one of the most pressing issues that the city and the globe is facing, seven years after Sandy parts of our city are still recovering from its devastation including areas that would be protected by this project. This application is a pivotal step in protecting nearly 200,000 New Yorkers in Lower Manhattan and includes tens of thousands of residents living in public housing.” City Planning Commission Chair Marisa Lago.
OCT 4TH, 2019 - COPENHILL TURNS A POWER PLANT INTO THE BEDROCK FOR SOCIAL LIFE
Designed by BIG, SLA, AKT, Lüchinger+Meyer, MOE and Rambøll, CopenHill opens as a new breed of waste-to-energy plant topped with a ski slope, hiking trail and climbing wall, embodying the notion of hedonistic sustainability while aligning with Copenhagen’s goal of becoming the world’s first carbon-neutral city by 2025. CopenHill, also known as Amager Bakke, is a 41,000m2 waste-to-energy plant with an urban recreation center and environmental education hub, turning social infrastructure into an architectural landmark. BIG’s year-round ski plant won the international competition in 2011 and broke ground in 2013. As Denmark’s single largest waste initiative to date, Copenhagen Lord Mayor Frank Jensen officiated the first run of the slopes, commencing opening festivities from sports competitions to charity walks supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals. CopenHill is inaugurated ahead of the C40 Mayors Summit hosted in Copenhagen this year, a landmark gathering of 96 member cities committed to bold action on climate change. Image by Laurian Ghinitoiu.
“CopenHill is a blatant architectural expression of something that would otherwise have remained invisible: that it is the cleanest waste-to-energy power plant in the world. As a power plant, CopenHill is so clean that we have been able to turn its building mass into the bedrock of the social life of the city – its façade is climbable, its roof is hikeable and its slopes are skiable. A crystal clear example of Hedonistic Sustainability – that a sustainable city is not only better for the environment – it is also more enjoyable for the lives of its citizens.” Bjarke Ingels, Founder & Creative Director, BIG.
OCT 2ND, 2019 - 6 HEARTS FOR COPENHILL / AMAGER BAKKE
Politiken Architecture Critic Karsten Ifversen reviews the industrial-recreational facility where citizens can come into close contact with energy production: “we have had almost ten years to get used to the idea of a ski slope on Amager, and it may seem normal, but it is still unique worldwide to mix vital industrial infrastructure, such as a waste incineration center, with a recreational urban park.” CopenHill officially opens to the public with weekend of festivities Oct 4-6 – view the full program here. Image by Laurian Ghinitoiu.
SEP 26TH, 2019 - COPENHILL OFFICIAL OPENING OCT 4-6
Copenhill / Amager Bakke gears up for a weekend of opening festivities October 4-6, from sports competitions to environmental talks and charity walks. Copenhagen’s newest waste-to-energy plant doubling as a recreation area for locals and visitors will soon open its doors to the world’s longest artificial ski slope at 400m and tallest climbing wall at 90m.
SEP 23RD, 2019 - AARHUS ENGAGES THE COMMUNITY WITH 21 NEW BATHHOUSES
Wedged between the seaside promenade of Aarhus Ø and recently completed AARhus residence are BIG’s 21 new bathhouses ready to be inhabited by various community-oriented programs. Encased almost entirely in thermo-treated wood burnt according to an ancient Japanese technique, the distinctively dark houses are exposed in the southwest to gain daylight and views to the harbor. Aarhus Cathedral has purchased two bathhouses, while others are available for purchase with the commitment to host public events throughout the year.
SEP 19TH, 2019 - WILDFLOWER IS A VERTICAL VILLAGE FOR FILM
BIG unveils renderings of a planned 650,000 square foot studio in the Astoria neighborhood of northwest Queens. The $400 million Wildflower Studios building will establish a hub for the creation of film, television, augmented reality, and virtual reality. The state-of-the-art facility is projected to create more than 1,000 daily union jobs. Wildflower’s partners include Adam Gordon and Matthew Dicker of Wildflower Ltd.; Robert De Niro, Raphael De Niro, and Jane Rosenthal.
SEP 18TH, 2019 - THE TWIST BRIDGES NATURE AND ART AT KISTEFOS SCULPTURE PARK IN NORWAY
Traversing the winding Randselva river, BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group’s first project in Norway, The Twist, opens as an inhabitable bridge torqued at its center, forming a new journey and art piece within the Kistefos sculpture park in Jevnaker, Norway. Kistefos’ new 1,000m2 art institution doubles as infrastructure to connect two forested riverbanks, completing the cultural route through northern Europe’s largest contemporary sculpture park. The Twist was inaugurated with Her Majesty Queen Sonja, His Royal Highness Crown Prince of Denmark Frederik, Prime Minster of Norway Erna Solberg, and Ministers Siv Jensen and Trine Skei Grande in attendance.
“The Twist is a hybrid spanning several traditional categories: it’s a museum, it’s a bridge, it’s an inhabitable sculpture. As a bridge it reconfigures the sculpture park turning the journey through the park into a continuous loop. As a museum it connects two distinct spaces – an introverted vertical gallery and an extraverted horizontal gallery with panoramic views across the river. A third space is created through the blatant translation between these two galleries creating the namesake twist. The resultant form becomes another sculpture among the sculptures of the park.
The Twist represents a new challenge for the exhibiting artists and artworks to engage with, and I am particularly excited to see how the work of two artists – Hodgkin and Creed, a visual artist and a performance artist – has turned this spatial problem into a great potential!” Bjarke Ingels, Founding Partner & Creative Director, BIG.
SEP 7TH, 2019 - FIVE STAR BERLINGSKE REVIEW FOR AARHUS
Berlingske Architecture Critic Holger Dahl takes a tour in and around AArhus. Aarhus Ø’s first completed residence comprises two concrete mountains nestling a courtyard designed by BIG Landscape and 1:1 Landscape. By the quay, 21 new bathhouses invite locals and visitors for wine tasting, dance lessons, informal church services and various events throughout the year. Image by Rasmus Hjortshoj.
SEP 4TH, 2019 - HAV COLLECTION WINS ‘DESIGN OF THEY YEAR’ AWARD
At this week’s Bo Bedre Design Awards, KiBiSi and Royal Copenhagen received the award for ‘Design of the Year’ for our new dinnerware collection HAV, designed by Bjarke Ingels, Jens Martin Skibsted and Lars Holme Larsen. The collection taking inspiration from the Danish seas and Nordic history is availble for purchase at Royal Copenhagen stores and online at royalcopenhagen.com.
SEP 4TH, 2019 - ARCH DIGEST REVEALS BIG’S FIRST PRIVATE HOUSE
BIG’s first private house is unveiled in Architectural Digest’s October issue, demonstrating Scandinavian simplicity with extreme coziness and practicality. The concrete home rises from a triangular base to a rectangular roof, creating an inverted pyramid with setbacks for terraces facing the garden. The home marks BIG’s first private house following the completion of multi-unit apartments AArhus, 79&Park and affordable housing Dortheavej Residence within the last year.
SEP 1ST, 2019 - ARCH RECORD INSIDER ON GALERIES LAFAYETTE FLAGSHIP ON CHAMPS-ÉLYSÉES
Architectural Record dedicates its September Interiors issue to BIG Interiors’ Galeries Lafayette Champs-Élysées, opened earlier this year. Writer Andrew Ayers interviews BIG Partner Jakob Sand on today’s transformed retail experience before touring the store on France’s famed Avenue. Arch Record’s Interiors issue dives into the details behind the atrium, steel-and-glass boxes and furnishings with BIG Interiors’ Director Francesca Portesine and Senior Designer Pauline Lavie-Luong.
AUG 26TH, 2019 - BIG’S MUSEUM-BRIDGE-SCULPTURE ‘THE TWIST’ SET TO OPEN IN NORWAY
Kistefos’ new museum The Twist is set to open on September 18 with Her Majesty Queen Sonja in attendance, as well as Prime Minster of Norway Erna Solberg and Ministers Siv Jensen and Trine Skei Grande. The art museum doubling as infrastructure to connect the Ranselva river is warped 90 degrees at its center, creating a sculpture form within the Kistefos Sculpture Park. Photo by Hélène Binet.
AUG 23RD, 2019 - DE VOLKSKRANT INTERVIEWS BJARKE ON FORMGIVING, LEGO AND MORE
Architecture journalist Kirsten Hannema from Dutch magazine de Volkskrant chats with Bjarke Ingels to find out what inspired FORMGIVING, how LEGO is more than just toys, and why watchmaking is a combination of alchemy and mechanics. Photo by Rasmus Hjortshoj.
AUG 21ST, 2019 - ELDERLY, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE RESIDENCE VEJLEVEJ 11 BREAKS GROUND
One year since BIG completed the affordable housing Dortheavej Residence in Copenhagen, Vejlevej 11 breaks ground in nearby Billund. The 6,600m2 residential building comprising a combination of public, private and elderly care homes is constructed for Billund Housing Association, Kirkbi and Billund Municipality, respectively. The building forms a gentle curve along the corner streets of Vejlevej and Hans Jensens Ve, rising in staggered boxes to create the niche terraces and balconies that will allow communities to form across generations.
AUG 19TH, 2019 - KIBISI LAUNCHES NEW HAV PORCELAIN COLLECTION
The design collective KiBiSi – a collaboration with (Ki) Kilo Design, (Bi) BIG and (Si) Skibsted Ideation – launches the new procelain collection HAV for Royal Copenhagen. Taking inspiration from the Danish seas and Nordic history, the collection is currently sold at Royal Copenhagen stores and online at royalcopenhagen.com.
ABOUT
BIG-BJARKE INGELS GROUP
BIG is a Copenhagen, New York, London and Barcelona based group of architects, designers, urbanists, landscape professionals, interior and product designers, researchers and inventors. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes. Not least due to the influence from multicultural exchange, global economical flows and communication technologies that all together require new ways of architectural and urban organization. We believe that in order to deal with today’s challenges, architecture can profitably move into a field that has been largely unexplored. A pragmatic utopian architecture that steers clear of the petrifying pragmatism of boring boxes and the naïve utopian ideas of digital formalism. Like a form of programmatic alchemy we create architecture by mixing conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking and shopping. By hitting the fertile overlap between pragmatic and utopia, we architects once again find the freedom to change the surface of our planet, to better fit contemporary life forms.
BIG LEADERSHIP
BIG is led by 17 Partners: Bjarke Ingels, Sheela Maini Søgaard, Kai-Uwe Bergmann, Thomas Christoffersen, Finn Nørkjær, David Zahle, Jakob Lange, Andreas Klok Pedersen, Daniel Sundlin, Jakob Sand, Brian Yang, Beat Schenk, Agustin Perez-Torres, Martin Voelkle, Leon Rost, Catherine Huang and Ole Elkjær-Larsen.
26 Associates: Ziad Shehab, Sören Grünert, Jakob Henke, Jeremy Alain Siegel, Andreas Buettner, Michelle Stromsta, Linus Saavedra, Aran Coakley, Jelena Vucic, Maria Sole Bravo, Kristian Hindsberg, Elizabeth McDonald, Blake Smith, Matthew Oravec (NYC) Frederik Lyng, Gabrielle Nadeau, Hanna Johansson, João Albuquerque, Nanna Gyldholm Møller, Eva Seo-Andersen, Tobias Hjortdal, Per Bo Madsen, Snorre Nash, Enea Michelesio, Kekoa Charlot (CPH) and Lorenzo Boddi (LON).
15 Directors: Tine Kaspersen (COO), Anne Brown Frandsen (CFO), Douglass Alligood, Andy Young (Technical), Duncan Horswill (Engineering), Ulla Hornsyld, Jamie Maslyn Larson (Landscape), Francesca Portesine (Interiors), Florencia Kratsman (Space Planning), Everett Hollander, Nicolas Kastbjerg, Henriette Helstrup (Managing Directors), Michael Rene Hansen (Finance) Kristian Palsmar and Alexander Bøegh (IT).
FOUNDING PARTNER – BJARKE INGELS
Bjarke Ingels founded BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group in 2005 after co-founding PLOT Architects in 2001 and working at OMA in Rotterdam. Bjarke defines architecture as the art and science of making sure our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. Through careful analysis of various parameters from local culture and climate, ever-changing patterns of contemporary life, to the ebbs and flows of the global economy, Bjarke believes in the idea of information-driven-design as the driving force for his design process. Named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine in 2016, Bjarke has designed and completed award-winning buildings globally.
In 2018, Bjarke received the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Dannebrog bestowed by Her Majesty the Queen Margrethe II. In 2011, Wall Street Journal named Bjarke The Innovator of the Year; he received the Danish Crown Prince’s Culture Prize in 2011; the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2004; and the ULI Award for Excellence in 2009. Alongside his architectural practice, Bjarke has taught at Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, and Rice University and is an honorary professor at the Royal Academy of Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen. He is a frequent public speaker and continues to hold lectures in venues such as TED, WIRED, AMCHAM, 10 Downing Street, the World Economic Forum and many more. In 2018, Bjarke was named Chief Architectural Advisor by WeWork to advise and develop the firm’s design vision and language for buildings, campuses and neighborhoods globally.
PARTNER & CEO – SHEELA SØGAARD
As Chief Executive Officer and Partner, Sheela Maini Søgaard manages the overall health and growth of the studio’s 500+ designers and support functions globally. Sheela oversees BIG’s finances, operations and business development, and is responsible for optimizing cash flow, developing the organization and executing strategic priorities. Prior to joining BIG as Chief Financial Officer in 2008, Sheela led Business Development efforts for Danish culinary entrepreneur and NOMA co-founder Claus Meyer and before that, she developed strategic solutions at McKinsey & Company. Sheela is an Advisory Board Member for the National Gallery of Denmark and is on the Board of Directors at Maj Bank. In 2019, Fast Company named Sheela on the Most Creative People in Business List and in 2017, Berlingske Business featured her as one of the Top 100 Female Executives in Denmark. Having roots in Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Denmark, Sheela holds a Master’s degree from Copenhagen Business School.
PARTNER – FINN NØRKJÆR
Finn Nørkjær has collaborated with Bjarke Ingels since he won the competition for the Aquatic Centre in Aalborg in 2001. Finn is instrumental in materializing BIG’s visionary architecture by bringing his extensive experience to the table. Finn has been deeply involved in most of BIG’s built projects, including VM Houses, The Mountain, The Danish Pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai Expo, Gammel Hellerup High School, TIRPITZ Museum and LEGO House. Most recently, Finn has worked on the Glasir – Torshavn College on the Faroe Islands, word’s best restaurant noma in Copenhagen and affordable housing Dortheavej Residence, all of which completed within the last two years.
PARTNER – THOMAS CHRISTOFFERSEN
Thomas Christoffersen began his collaboration with Bjarke Ingels in 2001 during PLOT. Thomas has worked on every notable project from VM Houses in Copenhagen to VIA 57 West in Manhattan, the landmark towers Grove at Grand Bay in Miami and Isenberg School of Management in Massachusetts. He is currently overseeing the design of Google’s California headquarters and the sports neighborhood East Austin District, as well as the construction of The Honeycomb residences in the Bahamas, Vancouver House in Canada and a higher education facility in Virginia. In addition to his long standing participation in all things BIG, Thomas took a sabbatical year to work in New York City with WORK Architects and has also worked with Stan Allen, David Ling in NYC and Henning Larsen Architects.
PARTNER – KAI-UWE BERGMANN
Kai-Uwe Bergmann brings his expertise to proposals around the globe, including work in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Kai-Uwe heads up BIG’s business development which currently has the office working in over 20 different countries as well as overseeing BIG’s Communications. Registered as an architect in the USA (thirteen states) and Canada (one province), Kai-Uwe most recently contributed to the resiliency plan The Dryline to protect 10 miles of Manhattan’s coastline. He compliments his professional work through previous teaching assignments at the University of Florida, the New School of Architecture in San Diego and his alma mater the University of Virginia. Kai-Uwe is recognized in the AIA College of Fellows, sits on the Board of the Van Alen Institute, participates on numerous international juries and lectures globally on the works of BIG.
PARTNER – ANDREAS KLOK PEDERSEN
Andreas Klok Pedersen is Partner and Design Director of BIG London. He is partner-in-charge of competitions, masterplans and large-scale buildings in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Most recently completed is the MÉCA culture house in Bordeaux, 220m tall Shenzhen Energy Headquarters in China, the first mixed-use high rise in Germany, the Omniturm, in central Frankfurt, and Transitlager residence in Basel. Andreas has been leading several competition designs that are currently under construction, including the Sluishuis in Amsterdam and the masterplan for Ø4 pier in Aarhus, which entails the architectural development of housing, hotel, theatre, public realm and harbour bath. Andreas has led a series of BIG’s strategic planning projects with a focus on sustainability, ranging from the Loop City in 2010, Audi Urban Future in 2010, Capital of Children in 2015 and Mars Science City in 2017. He teaches at the Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and the AHO School of Architecture in Oslo. Andreas has been a Studio Director at the Strelka Institute for architecture and urbanism in Moscow, and continues to lecture internationally on BIG’s current research and projects.
PARTNER – DAVID ZAHLE
David Zahle’s collaboration with Bjarke Ingels began in 2002 with the VM Houses in Copenhagen, followed by leading the winning design proposal for the Helsingør Psychiatric Hospital which completed in 2006. David oversees the design of many prominent cultural and mixed-use projects in Scandinavia, including The Twist, a new art gallery in Kistefos Sculpture Park in Norway; Västerås Travel Center in Sweden; Amager Bakke / Copenhill, a new waste-to-energy plant with a green rooftop park and a ski slope; Panda House at Copenhagen Zoo; Berlin Towers; and Cloud City residences in Aalborg. David also worked on the Danish Maritime Museum, designed around an abandoned dry dock next to a UNESCO-listed site in Helsingør, Denmark. Since early 2015, David has been responsible for Business Development at BIG’s office in Copenhagen. Alongside his architectural work, David is a host of the tv-show ‘Masterful conversions’ on Denmark’s national TV2 program.
PARTNER – JAKOB LANGE
Jakob Lange has collaborated with Bjarke Ingels since 2003 and heads up BIG’s technology-driven special projects division BIG Ideas. Through analysis and simulation, BIG Ideas informs BIG’s design decisions with precise data – what Bjarke has coined as information-driven design. Special projects include the pod and station design for the Californian transportation company Virgin Hyperloop One proposed by Elon Musk, Mars Science City in the Middle East, a green window farm technology, customized lamps, and building systems supporting the studio’s work from small details to the BIG picture. Jakob has been instrumental in winning some of BIG’s largest commissions, including the design and development of the Mountain residences in Copenhagen, the new Tallinn Town Hall in Estonia, which received a MIPIM Future Award in 2011 and the high-end residential building 79&Park in Stockholm, Sweden. Jakob is also a Board member at Virgin Hyperloop One.
PARTNER – JAKOB SAND
Jakob Sand joined BIG in 2011 to lead the team for the prize-winning Paris PARC project for the Jussieu Campus of the Université Pierre et Marie Curie. Since then, he has been in charge of several prominent developments, including the recently completed MÉCA cultural center in Bordeaux and Galeries Lafayette on the Champs-Élysées. Jakob is currently overseeing the Pont de Bondy metro station and Europa City Masterplan in Paris. Working in both Paris and Copenhagen for many years has given him an excellent knowledge of European culture and building practice. For five years, Jakob has worked closely with Dominique Perrault in participating on prize-winning projects, including the Palais des Sports de Rouen, which he led through all phases to construction, as well as the French Pavilion for the Venice Biennale 2010 for which he was Project Leader. Together with Perrault, Jakob also developed several large-scale competitions including the Headquarters for EDF and Tours de Pont des Sevres, both in Paris, and the University ARTEM in Nancy, Seoul Opera House in South Korea and the University in Belval in Luxembourg.
PARTNER – BEAT SCHENK
Beat Schenk joined BIG in 2010 as Senior Project Manager and is now the Director of Detail Design. Beat’s collaboration with Bjarke Ingels dates back to 2000, where he worked alongside Bjarke on the Seattle Public Library in Seattle, Washington for the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). Prior to his current role, he worked on a variety of healthcare, educational, and cultural projects around the globe. Beat has more than 20 years of experience as Project Architect and Designer and has sharpened his skills while working on many notable buildings in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. While at Frank O. Gehry Partners, he worked on a number of museum projects – including the Guggenheim Museums in Bilbao, Spain and Lower Manhattan, NYC – besides working on the Vitra Chair Museum Expansion in Weil, Germany.
PARTNER – DANIEL SUNDLIN
Daniel joined BIG in 2008 and became Partner in 2015. He has worked on many of BIG’s most prominent projects and competitions, including Tallinn Town Hall in Estonia, Slussen Masterplan in Stockholm, PARC Jussieu Campus in Paris and the mixed-use residential building VIA 57 West in New York. Daniel currently oversees the expansion of the Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California; the Wilson Secondary School in Arlington, Virginia; the 1,005ft tall office skyscraper The Spiral and the East Side Coastal Resiliency project both in Manhattan, New York. He is also one of the lead designers of Audemars Piguet’s prize-winning Musee Atelier and Hôtel des Horlogers in Le Brassus, Switzerland, set to open in 2020.
PARTNER – BRIAN YANG
Brian Yang joined BIG in 2007 and was named Partner in 2015. He has worked closely with Bjarke Ingels on a wide range of projects from the 8 House, a residential building in Copenhagen, to the conceptual design of a mobile gallery for the Tate Modern in London. He has been the Project Leader on a number of competition winning proposals, including the Amager Bakke / Copenhill waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen that doubles as a ski slope, Kistefos Art Museum in Oslo, and a sustainable multifamily residential development in Finland. Most recently he has been the design leader for LEGO House, which opened its doors to critical acclaim in 2017. With a background in energy efficiency research as well as undergraduate studies in economics, Brian brings additional focus on environmental and economic sustainability into all of his projects. Prior to joining BIG, Brian worked at a number of practices internationally, and while at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, led a project team for a pavilion exhibited at the 2009 Gwangju Design Biennale in South Korea.
PARTNER – CATHERINE HUANG
Catherine Huang joined BIG in 2007 and became Partner in 2018. She has worked closely with Bjarke Ingels across a wide range of projects and typologies such as the completed Danish Pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai Expo, the energy efficient skyscraper Shenzhen Energy HQ which just opened its doors, a low energy masterplan in Toronto, as well as residential projects in Copenhagen and Stockholm that enhance the urban fabric by creating shared social spaces. Most recently she was the Design Leader for a residential complex in Hualien, Taiwan that seeks to blur the line between natural landscape and the built environment. Prior to joining BIG, she drew on undergraduate degree in molecular biology during her time at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design to conduct research into new models of sustainability for the urban realm.
PARTNER – OLE ELKJAER-LARSEN
Ole Elkjær-Larsen joined BIG in 2003 and became partner in 2018. Ole has vast experience in project management and controlling of both large and small-scale projects. Ole has been key for the completion of BIG’s initial projects such as the Gammel Hellerup School multi-use hall and high school completed in 2014, as well as for the award winning 8 House in Ørestad, which he followed through to its completion in 2010. Ole supervised the completion of the re-programming and extension of the 30,000 m2 former warehouse Transitlager in Basel, as well as the TIRPITZ Museum in Blåvand that transforms and expands a German WWII bunker fortification into a groundbreaking cultural complex. Most recently, Ole was oversaw the completion of Glasir – Tórshavn College, a 19,200 m2 education centre on the Faroe Islands.
PARTNER – AGUSTIN PEREZ-TORRES
Agustin Perez-Torres first worked at BIG in Copenhagen from 2006 to 2008, during which he collaborated with Bjarke on a number of international projects, including the 8 House. He returned to BIG in 2011 as a Project Leader in the New York office where he led the team on the development of the Vancouver House as well as the Cité de la Musique à Genève Competition. Agustin became a Partner in 2018 and is currently leading various design competitions, serving as the Partner-in-Charge for the Redskins Stadium in D.C and the F.C Barcelona Camp Nou stadium competition. Prior to his design work, Agustin has worked as an architectural journalist and has assisted with major architectural exhibitions. Before joining BIG, Agustin worked for OMA in Rotterdam and Carme Pinos Studio in Barcelona.
PARTNER – MARTIN VOELKLE
Martin Voelkle joined BIG’s Copenhagen office in 2010 as a Project Designer for the recently completed Shenzhen Energy HQ. Martin moved to New York City in 2012 and became a key member of the project team for the 60,000 m2 mixed-use development Vancouver House in Canada. He was named Partner in 2018 and is currently leading various high profile projects, including 2 World Trade Center in New York City, the Smithsonian Institution Masterplan in Washington D.C. Prior to joining BIG, Martin worked as a Senior Architect at the Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) in Stuttgart, Germany. He led the design of a sports complex in the UAE and was Project Manager for two large-scale projects in Mexico. Martin also worked at Studio Scholz, a design firm in Stuttgart, Germany, and completed various interior design projects independently. Before studying architecture, he was originally trained as a carpenter.
PARTNER – LEON ROST
Leon Rost began his collaboration with Bjarke Ingels in 2005 at PLOT in Copenhagen. After completing architectural studies at California Polytechnic University, Leon has worked with renowned offices in Japan, Scandinavia, and Portugal, designing a variety of cultural, residential and master planning projects around the globe, including the New Oslo Central Station and the Ginza Swatch Building in Tokyo. Leon joined BIG with the launch of the New York office in 2011 and in 2018, he became a Partner. He has worked closely with all partners on some of BIG´s greatest projects, including the successfully completed Mountain residence and Helsingør Psychiatric Hospital in Denmark. He led the design for Grove at Grand Bay in Miami which was completed in 2016, and the winning competition designs for both the Kimball Art Center in Park City and the Tirana Cultural Center & Museum for Religious Harmony. Currently, Leon is leading the design of Google’s visionary masterplan and headquarter buildings, with over 3 million SF currently under construction.
AWARDS
BIG
German Sustainability Award, 2019
Nykredits Architecture Prize, 2018
Børsen Gazelle, 2015, 2013
Architizer Firm of the Year Award, 2014
French Academy of Architecture Prix Delarue Award, 2011
Crown Prince of Denmark Culture Prize, 2011
The Dreyer Foundation Grant Prize of Honor, 2011
Wall Street Journal Architectural Innovator of the Year Award, 2011
Nykredits Architecture Prize, 2002
Young Architect of the Year 2nd Place Award, 2002
Henning Larsen Foundation Grant, 2001
W57 – VIA 57 WEST
London Design Awards, Gold Winner, 2017
AIA Housing Award for Multifamily Housing, 2017
AIA New York State Design Award for Residential for Multi Family, 2017
ULI Global Awards for Excellence, Finalist, 2017
ArchDaily, Housing Building of the Year, 2017
ULI New York Award for Excellence, Finalist, 2017
ACEC New York Engineering Excellence Diamond Award, 2017
Brick in Architecture Award for Paving & Landscape, 2017
The Emporis Skyscraper Award, 2016
The International Highrise Award, 2016
CTBUH Best Tall Building Americas, 2016
Residential Architect Design Award for Multifamily Housing, 2016
Interior Design Best of Year Award for Residence: Lobby & Amenity Spaces, 2016
American Architecture Prize Residential Architecture Silver Award, 2016
Beazley Designs of the Year, Nominee, 2016
ENR New York Best Residential Project, 2016
World Architecture Festival Housing, Finalist, 2016
Concrete Industry Board Award for Quality Concrete Special Recognition, 2015
P/A Progressive Architecture Awards, Citation, 2015
HUD – THE DRYLINE
ASLA National Professional Honor Award, 2016
AIA Institute National Honor Award for Regional & Urban Design, 2015
APA National Planning Excellence Award for Urban Design, 2015
AIANY Design Awards Merit for Urban Design, 2015
Architizer A+ Awards Masterplan Jury Winner, 2015
Global Holcim Bronze Award for Sustainable Construction, 2015
Holcim Awards Innovation Taskforce, 2015
NY Planning Federation Awards, Winner (Rebuild by Design), 2015
Architizer A+ Awards Masterplan Finalist, 2015
ASLA NY Chapter Design Honor Award, 2015
MIPIM AR Future Award for Big Urban Projects, 2015
HOLCIM Silver Award in North America, 2014
AIANYS Honors Awards for Community Development (Rebuild by Design), 2014
COCO – THE GROVE AT GRAND BAY
Architects Newspaper Best of Design Awards for Building of the Year – Southeast, 2017
Interior Design Best of Year Awards – Multi-Unit Housing, 2017
AIA Miami Design Award, 2017
AIA Florida / Caribbean Merit Award of Excellence for New Work 2017
Architizer A+ Award, Jury + Popular Choice Winner in Architecture + Engineering, 2017
AZ Award Finalist for Residential Architecture, Multi Unit. 2017
ULI Southeast Florida / Carribbean Vision Awards Finalist, 2017
SEAoNY Awards – Engineers Choice Awards 2017
Miami-Dade ASCE Project of the Year Category III Honorable Mention, 2016
CRSI Honors – Honor Award, 2016
ACEC National Engineering Excellence Awards, Platinum Award, 2016
ACEC New York Engineering Excellence Awards, Platinum Award, 2015
NCSEA Excellence in Structural Engineering Award, 2015
Concrete Industry Board Roger H. Corbetta Award for Quality Concrete Merit, 2015
SØF – DANISH MARITIME MUSEUM
Dansk Stålpris (Danish Steel Award), 2016
Mies van der Rohe Award Finalist, 2015
RUM Magazine Award for Best Architecture of the Year, 2015
AIA Institute National Honor Award for Architecture, 2015
RIBA Awards European National Winner, 2014
World Architecture Festival Cultural Category Winner, 2014
European Prize of Architecture Philippe Rotthier, 2014
Danmarks Rederiforenings SØFARTSPRIS, 2014
Architizer A+ Awards Jury Winner, 2014
AIANY Design Awards Honor for Architecture, 2014
ArchDaily Cultural Building of the Year, 2014
AL Light & Architecture Design Awards Commendable Achievement, 2014
LEG – LEGO HOUSE
EU Mies van der Rohe Award, Shortlist, 2019
Civic Trust Awards, Winner, 2019
INSIDE Festival Award, Finalist for Civic, Culture & Transport, 2018
IDEAT Future Awards Shortlist, Best Architecture in Commercial Design, 2018
Danish Design Award Winner, Feel Good Category, 2018
Architizer A+ Award, Jury and Popular Choice Winner for Architecture +Branding, 2018
MCB – TIRPITZ
EU Mies van der Rohe Award, Nominee, 2019
AIA Institute Honor Awards for Architecture, 2019
The Mermaid Prize, 2018
AIANY Design Awards, Honors Award for Architecture, 2018
Nordic Architecture Fair Award, Finalist, 2017
SUK – SUPERKILEN
Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design Finalist, 2018
Aga Khan Award for Architecture, 2016
Rosa Barba International Landscape Prize Finalist, 2016
Red Dot Award for Product Design ‘Best of the Best’ Architecture & Urban Design, 2013
International Olympic Committee Award Gold Medal, 2013
Civic Trust Award International Winner, 2013
AIA Institute Honor Award for Regional & Urban Design, 2013
ArchDaily Building of the Year, 2013
Architizer A+ Awards Popular Choice Winner for Landscapes and Gardens, 2013
BDLA Prize Honorable Mention, 2013
Mies van der Rohe Award Finalist, 2013
Designs of the Year Nominee, 2013
Excellence in Economic Development Award, 2012
ARCHITECT Magazine Annual Design Review Play Category Citation, 2012
CON – URBAN RIGGER
Fast Company Innovation by Design Award Finalist, 2017
Buckminster Fuller Challenge Catalyst Program Project, 2017
Danish Design Award Finalist for Clean Solutions, 2017
Hovedstadens Forskønnelses (Beautification of the Capital) Award, 2016
VAN – VANCOUVER HOUSE
Architizer A+ Awards Future Residential Finalist, 2016
Canadian Architect Award of Excellence, 2015
World Architecture Festival Future Project of the Year, 2015
World Architecture Festival Future Residential Project Winner, 2015
Re-thinking the Future Award 1st Place for Mixed-Use Concept, 2014
NOMA – NOMA
INSIDE World Festival of Interiors, Shortlist, 2019
Berlingske Byens Bedste Award for Construction, Winner, 2019
AIA Institute Honor Awards for Interior Architecture, Winner, 2019
Wallpaper* Design Award for Best New Restaurant, Winner, 2019
Årets Arne of the Year, Finalist, 2019
Den Danske Lyspris, Winner, 2018
Interior Design Magazine Best of Year Award for Hospitality: Fine Dining, Finalist, 2018
Snedker Craftsmenship Prize, 2018
Architizer A+ Award for Hospitality: Restaurant, Jury + Popular Choice Winner, 2018
DONG – FREDERIKSBORGVEJ 73
World Architecture Festival, Shortlist, 2019
EU Mies van der Rohe Award, Nominee, 2019
Danish Architect Associations Lille Arne Award, 2018
PITT – PITTSBURGH LOWER HILL MASTER PLAN
ASLA Pennsylvania-Delaware Chapter Honor Award for Program Analysis & Planning, 2016
GHG – GAMMEL HELLERUP GYMNASIUM
ArchDaily Educational Architecture Building of the Year Finalist, 2016
Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards Finalist, 2014
Center for Active Design Excellence Awards Honorable Mention, 2014
Architizer A+ Awards Jury Winner 2014
AL Architecture & Light Design Awards Outstanding Achievement, 2014
Den Nordiske Lyspris, 2014
ARCHITECT Magazine Annual Design Review Grow Category Winner, 2013
VM – VM HOUSES
Mies van der Rohe Award Honourable Mention, 2007
Forum Award for Best Building in Scandinavia, 2006
Copenhagen Municipality Award, 2006
MAR – MARITIME YOUTH HOUSE
AR+D Emerging Architecture Award 1st Place, 2004
Copenhagen Award for Architecture, 2004
European Architecture Award Luigi Cosenza, 2004
Træprisen Danish Wood Award, 2008
Mies van der Rohe Award Honorable Mention, 2005
MTN – THE MOUNTAIN
Jørn Utzon Statuette Concrete Element Award, 2011
Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award, 2009
Urban Land Institute Award for Excellence, 2009
MIPIM Award, Best Housing, 2009
Forum Aid Award for Best Nordic Architecture, 2008
World Architecture Festival Best Housing Winner, 2008
Træprisen Danish Wood Award, 2008
Mies van der Rohe Award Honourable Mention, 2009
BAD – COPENHAGEN HARBOUR BATH
European Prize for Urban Public Space, 2004
International Olympic Committee Award Honourable Mention for Best Public Recreational Facility, 2007
HUA – HUALIEN RESIDENCES
World Architecture Festival Residetial Future Projects Finalist, 2016
MIPIM Awards Best Futura Project Finalist, 2014
Architizer A+ Awards, Architecture +Aging Finalist, 2014
BHS – HONEYCOMB /ALBANY MARINA RESIDENCES BUILDING 1
ENR Global Best Projects Award of Merit for Residential / Hospitality, 2017
Concrete Industry Board Roger H. Corbetta Award for Quality Concrete Merit, 2016
APH – AUDEMARS PIGUET HÔTEL DES HORLOGERS
BUILD’s 2018 Global Excellence for Future Leisure Project of the Year, 2018
SJA – SJAKKET COMMUNITY BUILDING
International Olympic Committee Award Silver Medal, 2011
Contract World Award for Best Interior in Education, 2008
MIA – AUDI DESIGN MIAMI
IF Communication Design Award, 2012
STL – ST LOUIS CITYARCHRIVER
Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award, 2011
TIR – THE MOSQUE AND MUSEUM OF RELIGIOUS HARMONY
Faith & Form Award for Religious Art & Architecture, 2012
ANL – ASTANA NATIONAL LIBRARY
Cityscape Dubai Award, 2009
PLOT
The Royal Academy Of Arts Eckersberg Medal, 2005
Scanorama Design Award, 2004
Copenhagen Collaboration Award, 2004
Nykredits Architecture Prize, 2002
EVENTS
NOV 25TH, 2019 - UNLV School of Architecture, Lecture Series
| speaker: | Kai-Uwe Bermgann |
| location: | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| time: | 5:30 pm |
OCT 16TH, 2019 - BMP International Real Estate Exhibition and Congress
| speaker: | Bjarke Ingels |
| location: | Barcelona, Spain |
| time: | 4:00 pm |
OCT 5TH, 2019 - Form and Force
| speaker: | Cecilie Brandt-Olsen |
| location: | Barcelona, Spain |
| time: | 9:00 am |
SEP 19TH, 2019 - 2019 KIA Convention & Exhibition
| speaker: | Kai-Uwe Bergmann |
| location: | Seoul, Korea |
| time: | 7:00 PM |
SEP 18TH, 2019 - CTBUH Germany Symposium: Urban Densification
| speaker: | Andy Young |
| location: | Berlin, Germany |
| time: | 5:00 pm |
SEP 13TH, 2019 - Colombian Congress of Architecture & Urbanism
| speaker: | Daniel Sundlin & Jeremy Siegel |
| location: | Barranquilla, Columbia |
| time: | 9:00 am |
SEP 12TH, 2019 - JUNG Architecture Talks – Omniturm. Work Life United.
| speaker: | Kai-Uwe Bergmann |
| location: | Frankfurt, Germany |
| time: | 6:00 pm |
SEP 12TH, 2019 - Metal Facades – Copenhill – PLOOTU19
| speaker: | Nanna Gyldholm Møller |
| location: | Helsinki, Finland |
| time: | 3:00 pm |
SEP 4TH, 2019 - Talk about a BIG dock!
| speaker: | David Zahle |
| location: | M/S Maritime Museum |
| time: | 5:00 pm |
SEP 4TH, 2019 - LEGO House – BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group
| speaker: | Finn Nørkjær |
| location: | Danish Architecture Center |
| time: | 4:00 pm |
AUG 21ST, 2019 - Formgiving: Qualities of Light with Jung & Siedle Nordic
| speaker: | Kai-Uwe Bergmann |
| location: | Danish Architecture Center |
| time: | 6:30 pm |
AUG 19TH, 2019 - Conversations on Art
| speaker: | Kai-Uwe Bergmann |
| location: | Ebeltoft, Denmark |
| time: | 7:00 pm |
AUG 13TH, 2019 - BLOXTALK: Formgiving
| speaker: | Bjarke Ingels |
| location: | Danish Architecture Center |
| time: |
AUG 9TH, 2019 - Inside/Outside: A Symposium on Digital Design
| speaker: | Carlos Castillo & Bernardo Schuhmacher |
| location: | NYU Tandon MakerSpace, 6 MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| time: | 2:30 pm |
JUL 18TH, 2019 - Keynote at Perspective USA 2019
| speaker: | Kai-Uwe Bergmann |
| location: | New York, NY |
| time: | 8:00 am |
JUN 24TH, 2019 - “Hyperloop One: The Intersection of Engineering and Design” @ Aspen Ideas Festival
| speaker: | Jakob Lange |
| location: | Aspen, Colorado |
| time: | 12:00 pm |
JUN 11TH, 2019 - Formgiving Official Opening
| speaker: | BIG |
| location: | Danish Architecture Center |
| time: | 7:00 pm |
MAY 25TH, 2019 - “Findes Planet B?” @ Bloom Festival
| speaker: | Jakob Lange |
| location: | Søndermarken, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| time: | 9:00 pm |
MAY 25TH, 2019 - 3daysofdesign2019 | Buzz Session: Architecture
| speaker: | Bjarke Ingels |
| location: | Embassy of Switzerland, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| time: | 3:30 pm |
VIDEO
BIG AND ECHO INVESTMENT PRESENT MIXED-USE TOWAROWA 22 IN WARSAW
Echo Investment, EPP and Griffin Real Estate have tasked BIG with designing the 230,000m2 mixed-use urban development in the heart of the Wola district in Warsaw.
UNZIPPED TORONTO OPENING SEPTEMBER 15
Our 2016 Serpentine Pavilion reborn as Unzipped Toronto is opening to the public on September 15, thanks to Westbank for their commitment to architecture, culture & city building.
BIG + ONE + SHERWOOD VISION FOR ISLAIS HYPER-CREEK
The BIG + ONE + Sherwood team announce our vision for southeast San Francisco: Islais Hyper-Creek is a restoration of the area’s underlying natural watershed as a major new park. Addressing risk from coastal and stormwater flooding, Islais Hyper-Creek serves as an opportunity to bring the existing industrial ecosystem into the next economy. Six proposed pilot projects, developed together with stakeholders and local communities, will kickstart a long-term process towards realizing the overall vision.
VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2018: HUMANHATTAN 2050
Humanhattan 2050 is on display at the Italian Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale and presents a mix of BIG’s Rebuild by Design concepts, including the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project, running from East 25th Street south to Montgomery Street, independent visions, and interpretations of the potential for Manhattan to accommodate both climate change and growth in the future, while returning the waterfront to its people, rather than to industry and cars. From Manhattan, to Humanhattan!
BIG PRESENTS BAY AREA SOCIAL ECOSYSTEM FOR RESILIENT BY DESIGN
For the Resilient by Design | Bay Area Challenge, BIG proposes a Social Ecosystem to create a more resilient, sustainable and equitable Islais Creek and South Bay. Together with One Architecture and Sherwood Engineers, we are thinking of ecology, people, infrastructure and transit working together as self-enforcing systems. We're excited to continue the conversation in not only saving the bay, but growing the bay for nature, people and changing climates.
DRONE PREVIEW OF LEGO HOUSE: OPENING SEPTEMBER 2017
A drone footage of the soon-to-be-completed LEGO House shows 21 stacked white bricks crowned with the 2×4 Lego block keystone. The grand opening for the 'Home of the Brick' in Billund, Denmark is scheduled for September 28.
BIG’S ALPHABET OF LIGHT AT 2017 MILAN DESIGN WEEK
BIG's Alphabet of Light for Artemide is installed at Interni's Material Immaterial event as part of the Salone del Mobile.Milano design fair for Milan Design Week. The installation is open to the public from April 3 – 15 in Università degli Studi di Milano.
BIG TIME INTERNATIONAL TRAILER
Danish filmmaker Kaspar Astrup Schröder paints an intimate portrait of Bjarke and BIG's development over the past seven years – the unveiling documentary has premiered in Denmark, and will screen in theatres across the country until June. Stay tuned for international premiere dates.
ABSTRACT: THE ART OF DESIGN – BY NETFLIX
The Netflix original docu-series, Abstract: The Art of Design, takes viewers inside the minds and behind-the-scenes of our creative process. The series is created by Academy Award–winning filmmaker Morgan Neville and WIRED's Scott Dadich.
DRONE FILMING OF THE SERPENTINE PAVILION
The Serpentine Pavilion 2016 is captured via drone in London's Kensington Gardens. The structure designed by BIG and engineered by AKT II is on display as part of the Serpentine Galleries Summer Architecture Programme now through October 9, 2016. Aerial filming by Halo Aerial Image.
DRONE FOOTAGE OF THE VIA COURTSCRAPER
The drone captures the latest construction progress at West 57th Street, providing images of the building’s soaring vertical elevations and glimpses of the faceted walls of glass that permit further views toward the water. Rising up at the northeast corner, the building’s highest point is 450 feet high, making it BIG’s tallest topped-out building to date. Aerial photography by darkhorse.work
DRONE FLIGHT THROUGH HOT TO COLD
Cinematography by Yeah Drones. Soundtrack by Mikkel Metal
2 WORLD TRADE CENTER IN NEW YORK CITY
200 Greenwich Street / 2 WTC is the capstone in the redevelopment of the World Trade Center and the final component of the revitalization of Lower Manhattan. The 80-plus story building is developed by Silverstein Properties and will serve as the new headquarters for 21st Century Fox and News Corp. The tower will rise to 1,340 feet, respectfully framing the 9/11 Memorial Park alongside One WTC, 3 WTC and 4 WTC.
THE INFINITE HAPPINESS – BY BEKA FILMS
Filmmakers Ila Beka & Louise Lemoine look under the skin of BIG's 8 House in Copenhagen. The ∞ Happiness explores the inner workings of the building documented by the Bekas through their month-long stay as the buildings residents. The film can be seen at HOT TO COLD, National Building Museum in Washington D.C until August 30th, 2015.
FREE-RUNNING GAMMEL HELLERUP GYMNASIUM
BIG + Team Jiyo + Kaspar Astrup Schroder at Gammel Hellerup Gymnasium.
SHOP
HOT TO COLD
Through the scorching heat of the Arabian Desert to the unforgiving chill of the Finnish tundra, HOT TO COLD: an odyssey of architectural adaptation takes visitors on a journey across the globe to explore the forces that shape our cities and buildings.
MUSEUM IN THE DOCK
BIG has designed an extraordinary museum to revive Denmark’s proud maritime history. The Danish Maritime Museum is placed underground, just outside the wall of a dry dock in a formerly abandoned shipyard. Author Bruce Peter takes us on a tour of the new museum in Helsingør, Denmark. In text, photographs and architectural drawings, Peter documents this remarkable adventure in architecture, civil and structural engineering.
SUPERKILEN BOOK
The book Superkilen celebrates the dawn of a new type of urban public space. Designed by BIG, TOPOTEK1 and SUPERFLEX, Superkilen is a kilometre-long urban park wedged within one of the most ethnically diverse and socially challenging neighbourhoods in Denmark. Click on the image and read more about the book and how to buy it.
AV MONOGRAPH BIG
BIG is proud to announce the publication of the BIG monograph by Arquitectura Viva. In Spanish and English, this monograph includes 25 projects by BIG from 2001 until 2013, alongside Bjarke's essay on Pragmatic Pleasures – BIG’s perception on an unprejudiced way of designing that combines hedonism and pragmatism.
BEING BIG BY ABITARE
After an intense year of following BIG and Bjarke in design, travels, construction sites and celebrations, Italian-based magazine ABITARE presents the most extensive and dynamic profile of the studio so far, providing insight and in depth interviews with Bjarke Ingels on Clients, Academy, Juries, Politicians, Media and the life of BIGsters.
BIG RED BOOK
Published by the Japanese publisher GA, BIG – RECENT PROJECT is a monograph that documents 28 recent projects developed by the BIG CPH and BIG NYC offices . In addition the book also includes an interview with Bjarke Ingels by Yoshio Futgawa and an essay on Social Infrastructure.
BIG PINK BOOK
Published by the Korean publisher Archilife, BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group is a monograph that provides an overview of the past 10 years worth of work. In addition the book also includes an essay by Geoff Manaugh and an interview with Bjarke Ingels by Jeffrey Inaba. Introduction by Boris Broman Jensen.
BIG: BJARKE INGELS GROUP PROJECTS 2001-2010
Published by the Chinese publisher Liaoning, this book is a collection of more than forty projects completed by BIG between 2001 and 2010.
YES IS MORE – AN ARCHICOMIC ON ARCHITECTURAL EVOLUTION FOR IPAD
BIG’s first monograph, YES IS MORE, now available on iTunes App Store
YES IS MORE IN DANISH
YES IS MORE is now available by the Danish publisher Gyldendal.
YES IS MORE – AN ARCHICOMIC ON ARCHITECTURAL EVOLUTION IN ENGLISH, GERMAN, SPANISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN AND PORTUGUESE
BIG's first monograph, YES IS MORE, now available from Taschen in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese.
YES IS MORE IN KOREAN
YES IS MORE is now available by The Korean publisher Archilife.
YES IS MORE IN CHINESE
YES IS MORE is now available by the Chinese publisher Liaoning.
MY PLAYGROUND DVD
The free-running documentary MY PLAYGROUND by Kaspar Astrup Schröder from BIG's Mountain in Copenhagen. Buy the DVD including 45 minutes of bonus material.
THE BIG LAB – ARKITEKTUR DK’S ISSUE ON BIG
A special bilingual issue on the latest projects by BIG brought to you by one of Denmark’s leading architectural publications ARKITEKTUR DK. Essays by Boris Brormann Jensen and Jens-Thomas Arnfred critically investigate the work of BIG in the larger Danish context.
AV PROYECTOS 074: DOSSIER BIG
BIG is thrilled to share the publication of a special BIG dossier by Arquitectura Viva's AV Proyectos. In English and Spanish, the issue presents 16 of our newest projects all over the world, organized in a thermodynamic itinerary from hot to cold.
A+U
BIG is incredibly proud to present our latest publication BIG + SMALL in collaboration with Japanese A+U. The special issue highlights BIG's latest projects ranging from the large-scale urban projects to smaller residences worldwide, including recent pictures from construction sites in Miami, Copenhagen, NYC, Shenzhen, Bahamas, Mexico and many more. Antón García-Abril's essay Everything is Possible and Jeffrey Inaba's thought provoking interview with Bjarke Ingels provide fresh insights into his philosophy and design thinking.
JOBS
Our journey started in Copenhagen in 2005, followed by an office in NYC in 2010, London in 2016 and Barcelona in 2019. We have completed about 35 buildings in 10+ countries and never limit ourselves to a specific region – we go where the projects are – even if its Mars!
Over the last two decades, we have grown organically to a 500+ person family worldwide. Working on new projects, typologies and challenges – we are joined by new BIGsters with the skills, experience and expertise our projects need! This is how we continue to grow and get better at what we do.
If you are interested in joining BIG, view our current opportunities here or sign up for updates here. We look forward to hearing from you!
CONTACT
BIG CPH
Kløverbladsgade 56
2500 Valby, Copenhagen
Denmark
Phone: +45.7221.7227
Fax: +45.3512.7227
Email: big@big.dk
BIG NYC
45 Main Street, 9th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
USA
Phone: +1 347.549.4141
Fax: +1 866.738.4336
Email: nyc@big.dk
NEW BIZ
For all new business requests, please send an e-mail to newbiz@big.dk.
PRESS
For all media requests worldwide, please send an e-mail to press@big.dk or call Jesslyn Guntur at +1 646 404 4872.
LECTURES
To request a lecture, please send an email to lectures@big.dk.
PEOPLE
For inquiries relating to recruitment or questions about our available positions, please write to people@big.dk.
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Landscape
BIG L transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries by weaving together building and landscape, planning, and programming, indoor and outdoor, public and private, to generate unforeseen typologies and synergies between the built and the grown. We develop generous amenities for all through collaborative processes to create places people are proud of, love, and care for, allowing them to thrive through constant renewal fostered by the communities they serve.
BIG L engages in the adaption and mitigation of climate change, focusing on addressing sea level rise and storm surge risks threatening our coastal cities. The scale, both spatial and temporal, at which those phenomena occur forces us to rethink the ways landscape designers, architects, and engineers seamlessly collaborate and join forces with governments, agencies, and communities for a fruitful public design process.
BIG L engages in a broad range of mandates including placemaking, biophilia, coastal resiliency, master planning, and future-proofing projects. To make these visions come true, we strategically engage stakeholders, communities, institutions, and the broader design field during our design process. BIG L’s design approach layers graphic and systemic studies to reconcile the aesthetic and the dynamism of nature and cities, tailoring outdoor spaces that look different because they perform differently.
One of BIG L’s main goals is to bring nature into the unexpected by creating hybrids of landscape and architecture. This is achieved with inventive landscape typologies, from residential to work spaces, inviting people to (re)connect with nature and the elements.
Engineering
At BIG we practice knowledge driven design. To stretch the boundaries of the physical, financial, regulatory and environmental limits of design, we need to surround ourselves with the best experts in the fields outside our own expertise in architecture. With an in-house team of engineers, we have learned how much more impactful our design thinking gets – having this expertise internally is the inevitable step towards the silo shattering interdisciplinary design innovation that we want to bring to the world.
BIG E covers a wide range of disciplines including structural and MEP engineering as well as indoor climate, daylight and energy analysis. We work closely with our architects and designers from conception to completion and focus on creating an engineering story which compliments and reinforces the architectural narrative.
BIG E not only considers what structural solutions are economic and buildable but, more importantly, how our knowledge of forces and materials can support our investigations and architecture. Statical studies show how the flow of force may shape the building form, how the disposition of columns may help to delineate between different functions or how the arrangement of roof beams may modify natural light.
Our solutions are often developed from the bottom-up as a direct consequence of site-specific environmental conditions. Technical simulations are used to understand the complex interaction between the built environment and the natural environment, such as daylight, acoustic comfort, shadow casting, solar radiation to inform a wide variety of architectural concerns ranging from the overall massing and orientation of the building to the specification of the ventilation system and facade.
Architecture
BIG is a Copenhagen, New York and London based group of architects, designers, urbanists, landscape professionals, interior and product designers, researchers and inventors. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes. Not least due to the influence from multicultural exchange, global economical flows and communication technologies that all together require new ways of architectural and urban organization. We believe that in order to deal with today’s challenges, architecture can profitably move into a field that has been largely unexplored. A pragmatic utopian architecture that steers clear of the petrifying pragmatism of boring boxes and the naïve utopian ideas of digital formalism. Like a form of programmatic alchemy we create architecture by mixing conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking and shopping. By hitting the fertile overlap between pragmatic and utopia, we architects once again find the freedom to change the surface of our planet, to better fit contemporary life forms.
Products
Where the design intelligence gets manifested into the material world, we have increasingly encountered that our imagination has been limited to what was already on the shelves. We feel we can close the gap and really make our interest in product design a literal extension of our efforts in architecture. By establishing close partnerships with leading brands in the furniture, lighting, and product accessory industries, we’re able to create new products that enhance the way we live, work and play, all while increasing our sphere of influence on the built environment.
Our efforts in product design ensure that our vision carries through from the big picture to the small details. By rigorously combining strong concepts with a fine eye for details, fit and finish, we ensure that our products can easily live in any interior environment. The The Gople lamp, which we developed in collaboration with Artemide came out of the need to provide ambient and functional lighting to aid in plant growth. A new typology combining functional white lighting for humans and RWB LED lighting for plants!
With Friday Lock, we extended our traditional architectural domain and design thinking to add value to a much smaller architectural property – a smart lock for the Danish design brand dLine.
And often our work becomes a merging of disciplines, where our product design and interior design efforts fuse together to create beautifully functional spaces. For WeGrow, our custom designed elements encourage openness and education through play, exploration and discovery.
BIG IDEAS
BIG IDEAS – Information Driven Design
BIG’s design process always starts by identifying the key criteria of a project: What is the biggest problem – what is the greatest potential? Rather than arbitrary aesthetic or stylistic prejudice, all decisions are based on project specific information – Information Driven Design.
Our effort as architects is sandwiched in the window of opportunity between analysis and implementation. And our influence happens in the translation from information to material. In an attempt to increase our sphere of influence on our built environment, we have established BIG IDEAS.
BIG IDEAS is an internal technology driven special projects unit, expanding the traditional scope of the architect into the realm of information and material. BIG IDEAS explores new intellectual territory in both the digital and material realm through three specific areas.
PRODUCT DESIGN
On the other end of the spectrum where the design intelligence gets manifested into the material world, we have increasingly encountered that our imagination was limited to what was already on the shelves. Through our collaboration as part of KiBiSi – our design partnership with Kilo Design and Skibsted Ideation – we have explored personal technology, urban mobility and furniture. With BIG IDEAS we feel we can close the gap and really make our interest in product design a literal extension of our efforts in architecture. The Friday Smart Lock is the latest product developed in partnership with Friday Home.
TECHNICAL SIMULATION
As daylight analysis directly influences the building geometry and as studies of thermal exposure, conditions the building envelope, we are increasingly relying on technical simulations that would traditionally be part of the engineering scope. To speed up the feedback loop between design and analysis, between trial and error, we have internalized the environmental analysis into our own office. Daylight, sunshine, thermal exposure, airflow, turbulence, wind, space syntax and traffic flow are technical simulations we now control to enable ourselves to make designs that are literally shaped by the forces that surround them. We still collaborate with the best technical experts to tap into the cutting edge at the horizon of the profession, but we have found it necessary to educate ourselves to wield the digital tools of design. Not just building information management or digitally aided design but also environmental simulation must become part of our architectural tool kit.
Our line of investigations from the Shenzhen Energy Headquarters to the Hanwha PV Plant to the Cité du Corps Humain, has provided us with a parametric design engine that allows us to tailor building envelopes and façade geometries to respond to different climate conditions across the globe. Our expanded parametric design tools are helping us start to formulate a vernacular architecture 2.0 through engineering without engines.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Rather than accepting the inhibitions from the architectural scope starting too late and leaving too early – missing out on both research and production – with BIG IDEAS were are starting a new journey to explore new intellectual territory in both the digital and material realm.
In collaboration with Danish Technical University BIG IDEAS resurrected the idea of the giant smoke rings for the Copenhagen Power plant.