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Aerial view of a colorful modular playground structure with blue, red, yellow, and green sections featuring various play equipment and climbing features, designed by BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group.
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BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

Architecture FirmEst. 2005

BIG is a Copenhagen, London and New York based group of architects, designers and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. BIG has created a reputation for completing buildings that are programmatically and technically innovative as they are cost and resource conscious. In our architectural production we demonstrate a high sensitivity to the particular demands of contexts and mixed use programs. By practicing ’programmatic alchemy’, BIG often mixes conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking and shopping into new forms of symbiotic architecture. The Mountain which was completed in 2008, counts as one of the first realized examples of this practice. BIG House, a 62,000 m2 mixed-use project in one continuous loop of public space is expected to be completed in 2010. The 5,000 m2 Danish Maritime Museum respects its UNESCO setting in Helsingør to create an invisible icon. BIG has also won the competition of representing Denmark at the World EXPO Exhibition in Shanghai, in 2010. These projects clearly represent BIG’s ongoing effort to free architectural imagination from habitual thinking and standard typologies in order to deal with the constantly evolving challenges of contemporary life.

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Projects

  1. The Spiral

    Workplace · New York, United States

    1,005 ft high-rise hybrid intertwining continuous green pathway with workspaces on every level

  2. VIA 57 West

    Residential · New York, United States

    Mixed-use project with three-dimensional urban block design

  3. CopenHill

    Residential · Copenhagen, Denmark

    Waste-to-energy plant with skiable roof

  4. 8 House

    Residential · Copenhagen, Denmark

    Figure-eight loop mixed-use residential design

  5. The Twist

    Cultural · Jevnaker, Norway

    Hybrid museum, bridge, and inhabitable sculpture in Kistefos sculpture park

  6. East Side Coastal Resiliency

    Urban-design · New York, United States

    Flood protection that doubles as parks and playgrounds

  7. Zurich Airport Building Dock A

    Workplace · Zurich, Switzerland

    World's largest timber building, redefining scale and sustainability in aviation architecture

  8. Smithsonian Master Plan

    Cultural · Washington DC, United States

    Master planning for major cultural institution

Awards & press

  • Knight's Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog

    Denmark · Award to Bjarke Ingels

  • Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

    France · Award to Bjarke Ingels

  • French National Grand Prix for Architecture

    France · Grande Médaille d'Or to Bjarke Ingels

  • Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale

    Venice Biennale · Award to Bjarke Ingels

  • Louis I. Kahn Award

    Award to Bjarke Ingels

  • Aga Khan Award for Architecture

    Aga Khan Foundation · Award to Bjarke Ingels

  • TIME's 100 Most Influential People

    TIME · Bjarke Ingels named

Selected work

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