STATUS
COMPLETED
BIG NYC has called Dumbo home since 2018. The 55,000 sq ft full floor office wraps around an interior courtyard and houses nearly 200 BIGsters. BIG’s interior design team led a complete renovation of the space over six months: interior walls were removed to accommodate the open-plan design, which includes ample room for an architectural model workshop, an exhibition hallway, meeting rooms, a canteen, a library and recreational space.
“With the majority of my colleagues, myself included, living in Brooklyn and the continuous enhancement of the neighborhood through the expansion of Brooklyn Bridge Park and the Two Trees community, DUMBO was an obvious choice for BIG in NYC. The visual excitement and physical proximity to downtown Manhattan combined with DUMBO’s artistic spirit and access to public space feels like our native Copenhagen, making it as Scandimerican as any place I can think of.”
Elements often repeat and continue from one side of the space to another to reinforce the idea of space continuity: a grid of 150 Bulb fiction pendants designed by BIG Product across the north side, a grid of Artemide Alphabet of Light lights around columns throughout the space and larger pill shaped lights across all meeting rooms. Each conference room is furnished with Scoop chairs designed by BIG for Halle. The color of the chairs designates the room.
The simple palette of materials and bands of plywood millwork is known from BIG’s other offices.
A generous model workshop includes two large fabrication and assembly spaces flanked by wood working & digital fabrication labs.
A gallery on the south side of the space connects east to west and is flanked by a library for Architectural building materials/samples on one side and backlit “pizza” shelves for archiving and displaying hundreds of process models.
Bjarke Ingels Thomas Christoffersen Daniel Sundlin Beat Schenk Martin Voelkle Amir Mikhaeil Callum Nolan Erik Kreider Greg Pray Guillaume Evain Jamie Maslyn Larson Jan Leenknegt Joshua Woo Gil Kilmo Kang Linqi Dong Maki Matsubayashi Marcus Wilford Margaret Tyrpa Mateo Fernandez Max Moriyama Oliver Thomas Robert Condon Taylor Hewett Terrence Chew Tracy Sodder Yu Inamoto Ziad Shehab Autumn Visconti Christopher Pin Deb Campbell Francesca Portesine Jeffrey Shumaker Isabel Narea Agnieszka Majkowska Alexandra Farmazon Douglass Alligood Jordan Felber Margaret Kim Tiffany Wong Xuechen Kang Benjamin Caldwell Karolina Bouros Luca McLaughlin
