Luis Fernández-Galiano   The explosive growth of Bjarke Ingels’ studio evokes an expanding universe. Heading a 190-strong team when he has not turned 40, this charismatic Dane – after training at the Royal Academy of Copenhagen, the Barcelona School of Architecture and Rem K

Bjarke Ingels   Over the last decade we have encountered what seems to be a law of nature – or at least a law of architecture: it seems to be inevitable that the infrastructure of the industry of the past gets appropriated to become the framework for the social and

Bjarke Ingels, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The Copenhagen Harbor is in the midst of a transformation from industrial port and traffic hub to being the cultural and social center of the city. ‘Blue Plan’ is the name of the program in progress along its 42 kilometers of docks, a redevelopment a

Bjarke Ingels, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The Maritime Youth House, located on the island of Amager, in Copenhagen, took as point of departure a technical problem related with the physical characteristics of the plot. Removing the polluted topsoil was a priority, but it also meant allocating

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The Psychiatric Hospital in Helsingør, a port city in Denmark, is halfway between the suggestive forms generated by the new digital technologies and the rigorous geometries that characterize the more functional structures. In the research prior to th

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   These two housing blocks go up on a site located amid the Ørestad and the Nordre channels. With the purpose of obtaining better views and illumination and avoiding the direct relationship between the dwellings of both buildings, the blocks are folded

Bjarke Ingels, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The new city section of Ørestad, a strip of 310 hectares developed mainly for residential and tertiary uses, is just ten minutes by public transport from the center of Copenhagen. Also conveniently located close to the airport, Ørestad grows on eithe

Bjarke Ingels, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The Sjakket Community Center is situated in the northwest of Copenhagen, in a large area which is mainly populated by lower income households and immigrant population. It is a neighborhood with both residential and industrial facilities, older buildi

Bjarke Ingels, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The building known as 8 House is located in Southern Ørestad, next to Copenhagen Canal and with broad views over Kalvebod Fælled’s protected, open spaces. With 60,000 square meters it is the largest private promotion ever launched in Denmark, includi

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   Located in the center of Nørrebro, north of the Danish capital, Superkilen is an urban park that exhibits the cultural diversity of the area with a contemporary language. The team of Bjarke Ingels, in collaboration with the Danish group of artists Su

Bjarke Ingels, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   China   The name of the Danish Pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, ‘Welfairytales’, is a play on words that makes reference respectively to the motto of the Expo (‘Better city, better life’) and to the tales by Hans Christian Andersen, the most well-known Dan

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   El Museo Marítimo de Dinamarca se ha trasladado de un castillo a un dique seco que funciona ahora como un nuevo espacio urbano situado a ocho metros bajo el nivel del mar.

Bjarke Ingels, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Faroe Islands   The new Education Center is located on a hillside, 100 meters above sea level, outside Torshavn, the islands’ capital. It is the largest education building in the history of the Faroe Islands, and is meant to serve as base for the coordination and de

Bjarke Ingels, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   China   The tropical climate of Shenzhen calls for a new approach to designing office buildings. The Energy Mansion Tower project design reacts to the need to create comfortable working spaces in this specific climate and, at the same time, to reduce energy

Bjarke Ingels, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Taiwan   The Hualien development is a utopic undertaking that seeks the perfect intersection between nature and the built environment. The building form changes depending on the views – from the mountains and the sea, the buildings are a complete reflection o

Nexus, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   United States   Park City, in Utah, used to be a silver mining town, but today it lives on tourism, especially during the winter ski season. The town’s Kimball Art Center – where the annual Sundance Film Festival is held yearly at the end of January – was inaugurate

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   United States   New York is becoming a greener and more welcoming city. The transformation of the Hudson riverfront, the High Line linear park, the pedestrianization of Broadway and the construction of thousands of kilometers of bicycle lanes are a few of the latest

Bjarke Ingels, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Greenland   The project for the new National Gallery sets a contrast with the square volumes that are so common in the architecture of Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, where the influence of Danish functionalist architecture is ever present. The 3,000 square meter mus

Bjarke Ingels, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   The new building is located in an industrial area just outside the city center, which will harbor new recreational activities. The plant for waste treatment becomes an exemplary model in the field of residue management and energy production, as well

Switzerland   The city of Basel is launching programs to regenerate industrial neighborhoods in the historic center. The aim of these initiatives is to promote an urban model based on the merging of housing and tertiary activities, creating areas with a greater va

Bjarke Ingels, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   France   Europa City, a sustainable city of 800,000 square meters located in the municipality of Gonesse, 16 kilometers from the center of Paris, combines the urban density of a big city with the bucolic character of life on the outskirts. Beneath a large gre

Bjarke Ingels, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Canada   The mixed-use tower and podium designed in Vancouver wishes to add a new chapter to the brief though successful urban history of the Canadian city. The building will go up at the entrance from Granville Bridge, on a site that is both strategic and co

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Finland   The new residential and leisure complex is located in Levi ski resort, in the municipality of Kittilä, in the Lapland region. Extending the existing topography, the project proposes four buildings that radiate out from a central square creating a net

Bjarke Ingels, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Denmark   During World War II, to prevent an Allied invasion of the European continent from Great Britain, the German armed forces built a series of fortifications along the coastline, known as the Atlantic Wall. The Museum Center Blåvand is integrated in one

FREAKS freearchitects, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   France   Located by the Garonne River as it flows through the city of Bordeaux, the new center for contemporary art MÉCA, which stands for Maison de l’Économie Créative et de la Culture en Aquitaine, unites in one single venue of more than 12,000 square meter

Bjarke Ingels, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   United States   In Phoenix, Arizona, an observation tower will rise above the urban fabric as if it were a pin firmly marking a location on the map. A slender concrete base contains the vertical communications: three glass elevators that offer panoramic views of the

Bjarke Ingels, BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Canada   With 227 meters in height and 58 floors, the Telus Sky Tower will be one of the tallest buildings in the city, only twenty meters lower than The Bow, by Foster + Partners, located close by. The tower will replace the existing art center in Calgary’s