
NEWS
FEB 18TH, 2019 - RESTAURANT NOMA AWARDED TWO MICHELIN STARS
The Noma restaurant in Copenhagen receives two Michelin Stars following it’s move to an ex-military warehouse on the outskirts of free-town Christiania. The new restaurant space designed by BIG invites the diners on a journey through Nordic building tradition and materials, making the environment an integral part of the culinary experience. Congratulations to Noma!
FEB 16TH, 2019 - THE NATIONAL POST LOOKS AT KING TORONTO PRE-CONSTRUCTION
The 57,000m2 King West and Brant Street building in Toronto prepares for construction. The mixed-use development with a public plaza, retail and dining space will create a new center for the community while connecting the various pedestrian pathways that crisscross the area. King Toronto aims to become the new go-to meeting space for people living and working in the city’s Entertainment District by 2021.
FEB 15TH, 2019 - THE ECONOMIST INTERVIEWS BIG PARTNER ANDREAS KLOK PEDERSEN ON SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
The Economist Intelligence Unit spoke with Andreas Klok Pedersen, Partner and Designer Director of the BIG London office, on why it is essential to design sustainable infrastructure that also expands people’s opportunities and quality of life. From Copenhill to Shenzhen Energy HQ and the BIG U in Manhattan, Andreas shares how approaching design through Hedonistic Sustainability can lead to a more enjoyable world with greater possibilities. Copenhill photo by Rasmus Hjortshoj.
FEB 13TH, 2019 - THE GUARDIAN VISITS COPENHILL FOR TWO-DAY SKI PREVIEW
The Guardian visits Amager Bakke / Copenhill during its preview days. Located 10 minutes from downtown Copenhagen, the waste-to-energy plant doubles as a recreation area for locals and visitors, offering year-round skiing, hiking and climbing wall activities. Copenhill is scheduled to open to the public in May 2019. Photo by Rasmus Hjortshoj.
FEB 12TH, 2019 - BIG TO WORK ON A NEW MODEL FOR PUBLIC SPACES IN DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN
Downtown Brooklyn Partnership has tasked WXY and BIG with creating a new public realm action plan for a unified vision to improve Downtown Brooklyn’s plazas, streets, and public spaces, keeping the purpose of each district in mind, while also making the neighborhood a more pleasant and accessible place for those working and living in the area.
FEB 7TH, 2019 - MÉCA REACHES CONSTRUCTION MILESTONE WITH FAÇADE COMPLETION
The Maison de l’Économie Créative et de la Culture en Aquitaine – MÉCA – reaches a construction milestone by installing the last plate of its composite façade. Located in Bordeaux, France, MÉCA is home to three cultural institutions and an urban plaza that connects public life to the waterfront promenade of the quai de Paludate. As construction nears completion, the new cultural center plans for inauguration in June 2019.
JAN 31ST, 2019 - BIG IDEAS DESIGNER ERIK BERG KREIDER JOINS AIA PANEL ON BIONIC MATERIALS
On Thursday, February 7th, BIG Ideas’ Senior Industrial Designer Erik Berg Kreider will join an AIA New York panel on the topic of Bionic Materials. Moderated by Oculus Editor-in-Chief Molly Heintz, Erik will speak about new building materials and our special projects unit BIG Ideas. He will be joined by Terreform ONE Co-founder Mitchell Joachim and KPF Associates Head of Digital Practice Nicholas Desbiens. RSVP to the event here.
JAN 29TH, 2019 - TIRPITZ WINS 2019 AIA INSTITUTE HONOR AWARDS FOR ARCHITECTURE
TIRPITZ is recognized with Honors by the AIA National Institute Architecture Awards program. Opened in 2017, the ‘invisible’ museum seamlessly embeds into the sand dunes of Blåvand, Denmark, transforming a former German bunker into a groundbreaking cultural complex landscape.
JAN 28TH, 2019 - OAKLAND A’S UNVEIL NEW GONDOLA TRANSIT SOLUTION
At the Oakland A’s FanFest, the A’s President Dave Kaval unveiled the new Gondola connecting the Oakland Convention Center/12th Street BART Station to Water Street at Jack London Square. The zero-emission transit line will provide residents and visitors with a safe and sustainable way to commute, explore, and soon enough, travel, to see the A’s play in their future ballpark, also designed by BIG.
JAN 24TH, 2019 - BJARKE INGELS PRESENTS VISION FOR OAKLAND COLISEUM
Bjarke Ingels presents BIG’s updated plan for the former ballpark at the Oakland Coliseum site. The vision for the 140-acre Coliseum is inspired in part by the urban ruins of Rome, building on the heritage that would add to the future of the area. The former parking lot becomes a park of urban islands in a green landscape, with the islands connected by trails or roads to the surrounding East Oakland communities.
JAN 22ND, 2019 - BUSINESSWEST CITES ISENBERG SCHOOL EXPANSION AS A POWERFUL, PRACTICAL STATEMENT
BusinessWest visits the Isenberg Business Innovation Hub and interviews BIG Project Leader Yu Inamoto and Isenberg interm dean Tom Moliterno about the 70,000-square-foot addition and renovation at the University of Massachusetts. The new extension functions as a change agent, geared towards enhancing and improving the student experience, team collaborations and career services.
JAN 17TH, 2019 - MADAME ARCHITECT INTERVIEWS MADAME CEO: SHEELA SØGAARD
BIG CEO and Partner Sheela Søgaard meets with Madame Architect Founder Julia Gamolina to talk about executing a vision, raising a family, and “mission criticals”. From discovering architecture to reaching new milestones for BIG, Sheela also shares how the adventures of motherhood helped shape her view on fulfilling and exceeding industry standards for paid leave benefits, including BIG’s commitment to Pledge Parental Leave.
JAN 16TH, 2019 - LEGO HOUSE IS SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 EU MIES VAN DER ROHE AWARD
Out of 383 projects nominated across the globe, LEGO House is one of 40 shortlisted works that will compete for the 2019 Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The LEGO experience center in Billund, Denmark is a big leap towards the city’s goal in becoming the Capital for Children. The 5 finalists will be announced on February 13.
JAN 15TH, 2019 - NOMA WINS 2019 AIA INSTITUTE HONOR AWARDS FOR INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
Noma receives highest honors in the 2019 AIA Interior Architecture Award which celebrates innovative interior spaces based on design achievement, including sense of place and purpose, ecology and environmental sustainability and history. The intimate culinary village in central Copenhagen includes eleven separate yet connected ‘building within a building’ where guests have the opportunity to walk through each space and experience a variety of Nordic materials and building techniques. Photo by Rasmus Hjortshoj.
JAN 14TH, 2019 - MASHABLE FOLLOWS SKIERS DOWN THE SLOPES OF COPENHILL
Mashable follows skiers down the slopes of Copenhill, atop Amager Resource Center. The new breed of waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen will not only be the cleanest power plant, but will be also be home to the world’s longest artificial ski slope at 400m and tallest climbing wall at 90m.
JAN 11TH, 2019 - BLOOMBERG’S MOST ANTICIPATED ARCHITECTURE OF 2019 FEATURES KISTEFOS MUSEUM
Kistefos Museum is one of nine buildings Bloomberg looks forward to seeing in 2019. A bridge, museum and sculpture rolled into one on the edge of the Ranselva River, its torqued center and dramatic lines create an outsized visual impact.
“The dramatic landscape of Kistefos sculpture park with its winding river, forested riverbanks and the steep topography is fascinating. The new Kistefos Museum acts like a bridge in the sculpture park, forming a continuous loop across two riverbanks. The museum visit itself will be a bridge, not a goal—and the exhibits inside an interior extension of the promenade through the park. With the inhabited bridge, we stumbled upon our first experiment with social infrastructure—a building that serves as a bridge—or a cultural institution that serves as a piece of infrastructure.” Founding Partner, Bjarke Ingels
JAN 10TH, 2019 - NOMA AND GOPLE LAMP NAMED WALLPAPER* DESIGN AWARD WINNERS
Both noma and Gople Lamp are officially named winners of the Wallpaper* Design Awards. Rene Redzepi’s Michelin star culinary village wins the Best New Restaurant category, while the glass-blown pendant that keeps indoor flora alive is named Life-Enhancer of the Year.
JAN 9TH, 2019 - EXPERIENCE BIG ART AT KUNSTHAL CHARLOTTENBORG UNTIL JAN 13
These are the last few days to experience BIG ART at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen before the exhibition ends on Sunday, January 13th. BIG ART celebrates BIG’s creative collaborations with artists from around the globe, inviting visitors to experience installations at the scale they were intended to be in when conceived for BIG’s architecture. Artists include: Ai Weiwei, A Kassen, Andrew Zuckerman, Benoit Maire, Douglas Coupland, Es Devlin, HuskMitNavn, Jeppe Hein, John Kørner, Julie Edel Hardenberg, Kaspar Astrup Schröder, Martin de Thurah, Peter Funch, Shepard Fairey, Snarkitecture, SUPERFLEX, Studio Tomás Saraceno, Victor Ash and Lars von Trier. The documentary BIG Time by Danish filmmaker Kaspar Astrup Schröder will also be screening this weekend. Photo by Vilde Livsdatter.
JAN 8TH, 2019 - HALLOWED GROUNDS SHOWCASE DANCERS AT UNZIPPED TORONTO
Dancers take on BIG’s former 2016 Serpentine Pavilion reborn as Unzipped Toronto by Westbank. The visual Hallowed Grounds piece directed by Caroline Torti and Fab Buritica showcase the structure of the pavilion through movement as dancers move in and around the space intended for architectural exhibitions and events.
JAN 7TH, 2019 - LEGO HOUSE NAMED A 2019 CIVIC TRUST AWARDS WINNER
LEGO House is named a 2019 Civic Trust Awards Winner! Recognizing the value of projects that have made positive contributions to their local communities, LEGO House in Billund, Denmark has welcomed well over 300,000 visitors since opening in September 2017 and continues to make an impact in the city’s goal of becoming the Capital for Children. The BIG London team looks forward to joining the 60th Anniversary Civic Trust Awards Ceremony in Manchester on March 1st. Photos by Iwan Baan.
ABOUT
BIG-BJARKE INGELS GROUP
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.
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, 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), Daria Pahhota (CCO), Douglass Alligood, Andy Young (Technical), Duncan Horswill (Engineering), Ulla Hornsyld, Manon Otto (Landscape), Francesca Portesine (Interiors), Florencia Kratsman (Space Planning), Everett Hollander, Nicolas Kastbjerg, Henriette Helstrup (Operations), Michael Rene Hansen (Finance) and Kristian Palsmar (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, everchanging 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 2017, Berlingske Business named Sheela 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. In addition to the Aquatic Centre, Finn has been deeply involved in most of BIG’s built projects, incl. the VM Houses, The Mountain, The Danish Pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai Expo, Gammel Hellerup High School, TIRPITZ Museum and most recently, LEGO House in Billund, Denmark. Finn is currently working on the 20,000 m2 Faroe Islands Education Centre set to open in Torshavn in August 2018, the recently completed word's best restaurant noma in Christiania outside of Copenhagen, and within the city, the first residents moved into Dortheavej affordable housing development with much acclaim from the local community.
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 the mixed-use VIA court-scraper in Manhattan and the landmark towers Grove at Grand Bay in Miami. 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 higher education facilities in Massachusetts and 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 (eight 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 also 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 joined BIG in 2004 and is the Design Director of BIG London. Since joining BIG, Andreas has led a number of BIG’s competitions, master plans and large-scale projects in Europe and Asia. Most recently, Andreas has led the design for the PARC research center in Paris, Transitlager in Basel, Greenland National Gallery of Art and the Shenzhen Energy HQ as well as the regional planning project the Loop City. His projects also count the Urban Future Award research project for Audi, the carbon neutral Zira Island in Azerbaijan, Tamayo Museum, Scala Library, Arlanda Hotel and BIG’s contribution to the Venice Biennale in 2004 and 2010. In addition to managing competitions and concept development at BIG, Andreas ran an architecture studio at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and was Guest-Professor at the AHO School of Architecture in Oslo Norway in the fall of 2011.
PARTNER – DAVID ZAHLE
David Zahle's collaboration with Bjarke Ingels began in 2002 with the VM residences 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, incl. Kistefos Museum, a new art gallery and sculpture park in Norway, Västerås Travel Center in Sweden, and the Amager Resource Centre, 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’s most recently completed project is the Danish Maritime Museum, a museum designed around an abandoned dry dock next to a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Helsingør, Denmark. Alongside his architectural work, David is also a host of the tv-show ‘Masterful conversions’ on Denmark’s national TV2. Since the beginning of 2015 David has been responsible for Business Development at BIG’s office in Copenhagen.
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, including 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 support the studio’s work from small details to the BIG picture. Jakob has been instrumental in winning some of BIG’s largest commissions, incl. the design and development of the Mountain residences in Copenhagen (2008), the new Tallinn Town Hall in Estonia, which received a MIPIM Future Award in 2011 and the high-end residential building Stettin 7 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, incl. MECA Cultural Center in Bordeaux, 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 5 years he worked closely with Dominique Perrault where he participated 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 Jakob was Project Leader. Together with Perrault, he also developed several large-scale competitions including the Headquarters for EDF- Paris, Tours de Pont des Sevres – Paris, University ARTEM -Nancy, Seoul Opera House – South Korea and the University in Belval- 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 Campus 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 the prize-winning Musee Atelier Audemars Piguet in Switzerland which is set to open in 2019, as well as the recently announced neighboring Audemars Piguet Hôtel des Horlogers with a zig-zagging ski slope on its roof.
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 Waste-to-Energy plant in Copenhagen that doubles as a ski slope, Kistefos Art Museum and a sustainable multifamily residential development in Finland. Most recently he has been the design leader for The 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 has most recently supervised the completion of the re-programming and extension of the 30 000 m2 former warehouse Transitlager in Basel, completed in 2016, as well as the Tirpitz Museum that transforms and expands a German WWII bunker fortification into a ground breaking cultural complex. At the moment, Ole is project leader of the Faroe Islands Educational Centre in Torshavn currently in construction and due for completion in 2018.
PARTNER – AGUSTIN PEREZ-TORRES
Agustin Perez-Torres first worked at BIG in Copenhagen from 2006 to 2008, during which he collabroated 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. In addition to his design work, Agustin has also 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 Vancouver, 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 master plan in Washington D.C., and King’s Cross Google Headquarters in London. 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 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 master plan and headquarter buildings, with over 3 million SF currently under construction.
AWARDS
BIG
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
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
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
ARC – AMAGER RESOURCE CENTER
European Steel Design Award, 2017
P/A Progressive Architecture Awards, Citation, 2015
MIPIM AR Future Projects Awards, 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
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
EU Mies van der Rohe Award, Nominee, 2019
Danish Architect Associations Lille Arne Award, 2018
SEM – SHENZHEN ENERGY HQ
CTBUH Best Tall Building Award of Excellence, 200-299 Meters Category, 2019
HKIE Structural Excellence 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
JAN 17TH, 2019 - SAFA New Material Future Conference
speaker: | Kai-Uwe Bergmann |
location: | Helsinki |
time: | 5:00 PM |
JAN 15TH, 2019 - BAU 2019/The Future of Building
speaker: | Kai-Uwe Bergmann |
location: | Munich |
time: | 2:45 PM |
NOV 26TH, 2018 - Mars Society London Inaugural Event
speaker: | Andreas Kolk Pedersen |
location: | London |
time: | 5:30 PM |
NOV 22ND, 2018 - Estate Konference: Public Housing
speaker: | Finn Nørkjær |
location: | Copenhagen |
time: | 12:30 PM |
NOV 15TH, 2018 - Zak World of Façades
speaker: | Kai-Uwe Bergmann |
location: | New York, NY |
time: | 11:30 AM |
NOV 7TH, 2018 - New York Digital Design Community
speaker: | Jan Leenknegt |
location: | New York, NY |
time: | 6:30 PM |
NOV 1ST, 2018 - International Highrise Awards
speaker: | Kai-Uwe Bergmann |
location: | Frankfurt |
time: | 7:00 PM |
OCT 18TH, 2018 - ABB Leaf Awards Keynote Address
speaker: | Kai-Uwe Bergmann |
location: | Frankfurt |
time: | 9:00 AM |
OCT 13TH, 2018 - The Euroregional Biennial – BETA
speaker: | Lucian Racovitan |
location: | Timișoara |
time: | 10:45 AM |
OCT 3RD, 2018 - Bartlett School of Architecture
speaker: | Kai-Uwe Bergmann |
location: | London |
time: | 6:30 PM |
SEP 24TH, 2018 - CMS Design Experience Series
speaker: | Kai-Uwe Bergmann |
location: | Wellington, Tauranga, Auckland, NZ |
time: | 5:00pm |
SEP 13TH, 2018 - Keynote Speech at the Asian Congress Of Architects
speaker: | Kai-Uwe Bergmann |
location: | Tokyo |
time: | 10:00am |
SEP 10TH, 2018 - Conference at UFV Madrid
speaker: | Bjarke Ingels |
location: | Auditorium of the UFV (building H) |
time: | 7:00 PM |
VIDEO
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
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We are dedicated to creating and maintaining a cool workplace where we want to be and we continuously work at becoming better and better at what we do.
If you are interested in joining BIG, please apply by clicking on the link below. We look forward to hearing from you!
CONTACT
BIG CPH
Kløverbladsgade 56
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
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or call Daria Pahhota on +1 646 541 1411.
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.
STAFF
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, everchanging patters 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 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.
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Agustin Perez-Torres
Agustin Perez-Torres first worked at BIG in Copenhagen from 2006 to 2008, during which he collabroated 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. In addition to his design work, Agustin has also 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.
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Partner | +1 347 433 4405 / +45 25 10 45 02 | ||
Andreas Klok Pedersen
Andreas Klok Pedersen joined BIG in 2004 and is the Design Director of BIG London. Since joining BIG, Andreas has led a number of BIG’s competitions, master plans and large-scale projects in Europe and Asia. Most recently, Andreas has led the design for the PARC research center in Paris, Transitlager in Basel, Greenland National Gallery of Art and the Shenzhen Energy HQ as well as the regional planning project the Loop City. His projects also count the Urban Future Award research project for Audi, the carbon neutral Zira Island in Azerbaijan, Tamayo Museum, Scala Library, Arlanda Hotel and BIG’s contribution to the Venice Biennale in 2004 and 2010. In addition to managing competitions and concept development at BIG, Andreas ran an architecture studio at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and was Guest-Professor at the AHO School of Architecture in Oslo Norway in the fall of 2011.
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Partner | +45 72 21 72 27 | ||
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.
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Partner | +1 617 519 3879 | ||
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 Waste-to-Energy plant in Copenhagen that doubles as a ski slope, Kistefos Art Museum and a sustainable multifamily residential development in Finland. Most recently he has been the design leader for The 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.
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Partner | +45 25 10 44 79 | ||
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.
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Partner | +45 25 10 44 56 | ||
Daniel Sundlin
Daniel joined BIG in 2008 and became Partner in 2015. Daniel is one of the lead designers of the prize-winning Musee Atelier Audemars Piguet in Le Brassus, Switzerland which is set to open in 2019, as well as the recently announced neighboring Audemars Piguet Hotel which allows guests to ski directly out of their hotel room. Prior to this, Daniel worked on many of BIG’s most prominent projects and winning competitions, including the mixed-use residential building in New York City VIA 57 West, Tallinn Town Hall in Estonia, Slussen Masterplan in Stockholm and PARC Jussieu Campus in Paris.
At the moment, Daniel oversees the expansion of the Google Campus (Google North Bayshore and Google Charleston East) in Mountain View, California; the Wilson Secondary School in Arlington, Virginia; the 1005 ft tall high-rise The Spiral and the East Side Costal Resiliency project (Big U) both in Manhattan, New York.
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Partner | +1 347 673 4967 | ||
David Zahle
David Zahle is a Partner at BIG and has been Project and Design Architect for many of BIG' s award-winning and built projects. David's most recently completed project is the Danish Maritime Museum, a museum designed around an abandoned dry dock next to a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Helsingør, Denmark. His collaboration with Bjarke Ingels began in 2002 with the VM Residences; in the same year, he won the competition for the Helsingør Psychiatric Hospital which he followed through to its completion in 2006. David oversees the design of many prominent cultural and mixed-use projects including a new art gallery and sculpture park in Norway, Västerås Travel Center in Sweden, and the Amager Resource Centre, a new Waste-to-Energy Plant with in an innovative roof doubling as a ski slope. The project is currently under construction. In addition to his architectural practice, David has been juror for numerous architectural and cultural awards committees and frequently travels across Europe and Scandinavia to speak on BIG's projects and ideas.
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Partner | +45 26 12 14 45 | ||
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. In addition to the Aquatic Centre, Finn has been deeply involved in most of BIG’s built projects, incl. the VM Houses, The Mountain, The Danish Pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai Expo, Gammel Hellerup High School, Tirpitz Museum and most recently the Lego House in Billund. Finn is currently working on the 20.000m2 Faroe Islands Education Centre in Torshavn which is set to open in August 2018 and the Dortheavej affordable housing development in Copenhagen which recently welcomed its first residents and received much acclaim from the local community.
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Partner | +45 29 63 16 10 | ||
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, including 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 support the studio’s work from small details to the BIG picture. Jakob has been instrumental in winning some of BIG’s largest commissions, incl. the design and development of the Mountain residences in Copenhagen (2008), the new Tallinn Town Hall in Estonia, which received a MIPIM Future Award in 2011 and the high-end residential building Stettin 7 in Stockholm, Sweden. Jakob is also a Board member at Virgin Hyperloop One.
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Partner | +45 26 27 97 87 | ||
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, incl. MECA Cultural Center in Bordeaux, 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 5 years he worked closely with Dominique Perrault where he participated 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 Jakob was Project Leader. Together with Perrault, he also developed several large-scale competitions including the Headquarters for EDF- Paris, Tours de Pont des Sevres - Paris, University ARTEM -Nancy, Seoul Opera House - South Korea and the University in Belval- Luxembourg.
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Partner | +45 25 10 44 69 | ||
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 (eight 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 also sits on the Board of the Van Alen Institute, participates on numerous international juries and lectures globally on the works of BIG.
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Partner | +1 917 318 6323 | ||
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 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 master plan and headquarter buildings, with over 3 million SF currently under construction.
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Partner | +1 646 465 0585 | ||
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 Vancouver, 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 master plan in Washington D.C., and King’s Cross Google Headquarters in London. 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.
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Partner | +1 347 549 4141 | ||
Ole Elkjær-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 has most recently supervised the completion of the re-programming and extension of the 30 000 m2 former warehouse Transitlager in Basel, completed in 2016, as well as the Tirpitz Museum that transforms and expands a German WWII bunker fortification into a ground breaking cultural complex. At the moment, Ole is project leader of the Faroe Islands Educational Centre in Torshavn currently in construction and due for completion in 2018.
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Partner | +45 25 10 44 81 | ||
Sheela Maini 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 2017, Berlingske Business named Sheela 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.
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Partner, CEO | +45 72 21 72 27 | ||
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 the mixed-use VIA court-scraper in Manhattan and the landmark towers Grove at Grand Bay in Miami. 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 higher education facilities in Massachusetts and 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.
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Henrik Jacobsen
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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 Labs.
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.