Bjarke Ingels Group

Bjarke Ingels Group, often referred to as BIG, is a Copenhagen and New York based group of architects, designers, and builders operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. As of 2016, the office has over 400 employees from 25 countries.[2]

BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group
Architectural practice
Industryarchitecture, urbanism, interior design, landscape design, product design, research and development
Founded2005
FounderBjarke Ingels 
Headquarters
Copenhagen & New York[1]
Key people
  • Bjarke Ingels (Founder and Creative Partner)
  • Andreas Klok Pedersen, Beat Schenk, Brian Yang, Daniel Sundlin, David Zahle, Finn Norkjaer, Jakob Lange, Jakob Sand, Kai-Uwe Bergmann, Sheela Maini Sogaard, Thomas Christoffersen (Partners)
Number of employees
400+
Websitewww.big.dk

History

Bjarke Ingels and Julien De Smedt established the company PLOT in Copenhagen in January 2001, as a focus for their architectural practice. Ingels established BIG in late 2005 after he and De Smedt closed down PLOT. This drew acclaim for its first completed commission, the Mountain, a residential project in Copenhagen which had been started by PLOT. Over the next couple of years, BIG's projects included a waste-to-energy plant which doubles as a ski-slope in Copenhagen, Denmark, the West 57th Street mixed-use tower in midtown Manhattan for Durst Fetner Residential, the National Art Gallery of Greenland in Nuuk, the headquarters for the Shenzhen Energy Company in Shenzhen, and the Kimball Art Center in Utah.

In December 2009, the company's partnership was expanded to include Thomas Christoffersen, Jakob Lange, Finn Nørkjaer, Andreas Klok Pedersen, David Zahle, CEO Sheela Maini Søgaard, and Kai-Uwe Bergmann.[3] In 2010, they opened a branch office in New York City, where they were commissioned to design the VIA 57 West courtscraper for Durst Fetner Residential.[4]

At a lecture at the Royal Academy in July 2015, BIG proposed turning the Battersea Power Station in London into "the world's tallest Tesla coils."[5]

In 2015, BIG added four new partners: Beat Schenk and Daniel Sundlin in New York and Brian Yang and Jakob Sand in Copenhagen.

In May 2016, BIG partnered with Hyperloop One, Deutsche Bahn, and SYSTRA to develop a test of the high-speed, low friction Hyperloop concept.[6]

In March of 2017, BIG signed a lease for an office in the Brooklyn neighborhood Dumbo, keeping its Manhattan office at the same time.[7] The firm, then 250 people in Manhattan's financial district, all moved to Dumbo.[8]

After an Instagram post showing that 11 of 12 partners at BIG were men, BIG CEO Sheela Maini Sogaard defend the firm's gender balance and stated they had created a "pipeline of diverse talent" that would eventually be "trickling up" into the partner group.[9]

In March 2018, BIG was named as the first high-profile architecture firm to be commissioned to design a public structure in Albania,[10] specifically the replacement building for the aging National Theatre of Albania.[10] Plans to demolish and replace the old national theater with a building by BIG resulted in the National Theatre Protest in Albania in 2019,[11] as the old building was considered historic.[12][13][14] The demolition on 17th of May 2020 resulted in continued protests and detainment of protestors by authorities. [15]

The company has met with criticism for designing for repressive regimes.[16][17] The firm in 2019 designed renderings for Wildflower Studios, Robert De Niro's movie studio in Queens, New York.[18]

BIG released a revision of its design proposal for the new Oakland Ballpark in February 2019, retaining its rooftop park with community access[19] and developing "3.3 million square feet of housing, 1.5 million square feet of commercial and office space, a hotel and a performance center in the area surrounding the stadium."[20] They've also worked on zoo enclosures.[21] It was building a city layout for Toyota in January of 2020, to replace a former factory site near Mt. Fuji.[22] In February 2020, BIG took its first sofa design commission, for a Danish furniture company.[23]

Divisions

BIG IDEAS Lab

Launched in 2014, the division is part R&D lab, part incubator for BIG design concepts that can be spun off into independent products or companies.

The lab was founded to build the steam-ring generator for the Amager Bakke - the Copenhagen power plant with a ski slope on its roof - which will "puff" every time it emits a tonne of carbon dioxide.[24] It is now working on numerous BIG collaborations and spin-off projects, including a smart internet-connected lock named Friday,[25] "a company that creates water from super-efficient dehumidification", and Urban Rigger[26] - floating student housing for coastal cities built from repurposed shipping containers. The first are scheduled to be built in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2016.[27]

Other projects include Fingerprint Façade,[28] Window Garden, and a gigantic Tesla coil for the Battersea Power Station in London.[29]

Projects

Completed projects
Mountain Dwellings in Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark
8 House in Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark
West 57 in New York

Under construction
  • Two World Trade Center, New York City, New York, United States [40]
  • The XI, New York City, New York, United States [41]
  • The Big U, New York City, New York, United States [42]
  • Grove at Grand Bay, Miami, Florida, United States [43]
  • Hualien Residences, Hualien, Taiwan
  • Serpentine Summer Pavilion 2016, London, England, United Kingdom[44]
  • Washington Redskins Stadium (name change pending), Washington D.C., United States[45]
  • Google North Bayshore Campus, Mountain View, California, United States
  • Google King's Cross Campus, London, United Kingdom [46]
  • Transitlager Dreispitz, Basel, Switzerland (competition win, November 2011)[47]
  • Amager Bakke, Copenhagen, Denmark (competition win 2011)[48]
  • Faroe Islands Education Centre, Thorshavn, Faroe Islands (competition win, December 2009)[49]
  • Shenzhen International Energy Mansion, Shenzhen, China (competition win, September 2009)[50]
  • Honeycomb / Albany Marina Residences, Building One, Nassau, Bahamas,[51]
  • Vancouver House, Vancouver, BC, Canada[52]
  • Audemars Piguet Museum, La Maison des Fondateurs, La Vallée de Joux, La Brassus, Switzerland[53]
  • Telus Sky Tower, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Zootopia, Givskud, Denmark [54]
  • New Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (competition win, April 2009)
  • New Tallinn City Hall, Tallinn, Estonia (competition win, June 2009)[55]
  • World Village of Women Sports, Malmö, Sweden (competition win, November 2009)[56]
  • National Gallery, Nuuk, Greenland (competition win, February 2011)[57]
  • Paris PARC, Paris, France (competition win, November 2011) [58]
  • Koutalaki Ski Village, Levi, Finland (competition win, 2011)[59]
  • Kimball Art Centre, Park City, Utah, United States (competition win, February 2012)[60][61][62][63][64]
  • Cross # Towers, Seoul, South Korea[65]
  • Maison de l’Économie Créative et de la Culture en Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France (competition win, April 2012)[66]
  • The Red Line, Tampere, Finland (competition win, May 2012)[67]
  • Rose Rock International Finance Center, Tianjin, China[68]
  • Phoenix Observation Tower, Phoenix, Arizona, US[69]
  • EuropaCity, Paris, France[70]
  • Smithsonian Institution South Campus Master Plan, Washington D.C., United States[71]
  • NYPD 40th Precinct, Bronx, New York, United States
  • The Spiral, New York City, New York, United States[72]
  • Metzler High-Rise, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Battersea Power Station Malaysia Square, London, England, United Kingdom
  • King Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada[73]
  • Frederiksborgvej 73, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Västerås Travel Center, Västerås, Sweden
  • Vinterbad Bryggen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Saint Thomas Church Extension, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Pittsburgh Lower Hill Master Plan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway[74][75]
  • Esbjerg Towers, Esbjerg, Denmark (Cactus Towers)[76][77][78][79]
  • London Bridge[80][81][82][83]
  • 3 West 29th Street, New York City[84]

Awards
West 57 on display in Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Exhibitions
Bjarke Ingels during opening speech at exhibition of projects from Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) at Danish Architecture Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark - June 2019

Publications
  • Hot to Cold: An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation, Taschen - 2015[98]
  • Yes Is More: Yes Is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution, Taschen - 2009
  • Museum in the Dock, Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing - 2014
  • Superkilen Book, Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing - 2013
  • AV Monograph BIG, Arquitectura Viva - 2013
  • Being BIG by Abitare, Abitare - 2012
  • BIG Red Book, Ada Edita Global Architecture - 2012
  • BIG Pink Book, Archilife - 2010
  • BIG Bjarke Ingels Group Projects 2001-2010, Design Media Publishing Ltd - 2011
  • A Project as an Icon, an Icon as a Project, in STUDIO Architecture and Urbanism magazine[99] Issue#03 Icon, Milano, edited by Romolo Calabrese, 2012 Article

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