WALLPAPER* PUBLISHES GUIDE TO BJARKE INGELS AND BIG'S PORTFOLIO

Wallpaper* spotlights Bjarke Ingels, Founder and Creative Director of BIG, exploring his concept of ‘hedonistic sustainability’ and showcasing 10 key projects from BIG’s global portfolio. The feature spans early works such as The Mountain and the Danish Maritime Museum, as well as more recent projects like The Twist and Hôtel des Horlogers. The in-depth piece also references Bjarke’s “archicomic” manifesto, Yes Is More, which the article’s writer, Edwin Heathcote, argues encapsulates BIG’s philosophy: “Architecture seems entrenched between two equally infertile fronts: either naively utopian or petrifyingly pragmatic. Rather than choosing one over the other, BIG operates in the fertile overlap between the opposites—a pragmatic utopian architecture that takes on the creation of socially, economically, and environmentally perfect places as a practical objective.” – Bjarke Ingels, Yes Is More