Bjarke Ingels Group

BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group
Practice information
Key architects Bjarke Ingels, 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[1]
Founded 2005
Location Copenhagen, New York City, London

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. The office now has over 300 employees from over 25 countries in the world.[2]

History

Bjarke Ingels and Julien De Smedt established PLOT in Copenhagen in January 2001. PLOT was founded in order to develop an architectural practice that turns intense research and analysis of practical as well as theoretical issues into the driving forces of design. A better way to explain the office's design philosophy and process is to explain its name: a narrative is a series of events, that are tied together in a PLOT. Each event contains insight, drama and beauty in itself, but without the PLOT they risk to fail and become nothing but the sum of the parts. Individually the incidents may seem random or pointless, but joined they culminate in a transcending will. In the same way the PLOT makes architecture more than a random accumulation of toilets and bedrooms. Beautiful details and individual moments get lost if nothing is at stake - if the PLOT is missing.

Bjarke Ingels established BIG in late 2005 after he and his former partner, Julien De Smedt, decided close down PLOT after exactly 5 years of fruitful collaboration. His new firm continues to draw extensive national and international attention and won several international awards for its first completed commission, the Mountain, a residential project in Copenhagen which had been commenced by PLOT. Over the next couple of years, BIG won a number of international competitions and received several large commissions around the world. These include 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, headquarters for the Shenzhen Energy Company in Shenzhen, China and Kimball Art Center in Utah, USA.

As of 1 December 2009, in response to the rapid growth of the company, the partnership was expanded with seven new partners: Thomas Christoffersen, Jakob Lange, Finn Nørkjaer, Andreas Klok Pedersen, David Zahle, CEO Sheela Maini Søgaard, and Kai-Uwe Bergmann who heads the company's Business Development efforts.[3]

In 2010, BIG opened a branch office in New York City, where they have been commissioned to design the W57 courtscraper for Durst Fetner Residential.[4]

In 2015, BIG added four new partners to the existing partnership between the offices in Copenhagen and New York: Beat Schenk and Daniel Sundlin in New York and Brian Yang and Jakob Sand in Copenhagen. In addition, 16 employees were appointed in key positions as Associates.

BIG IDEAS

In 2014, BIG IDEAS was established an internal technology driven special projects unit, expanding the traditional scope of the architect into the realm of information and material. BIG IDEAS explores new intellectual territory in both the digital and material realm through three specific areas: technical simulation, product design and special projects.[5]

BIG’s design process always starts by identifying the key criteria of a project: What is the biggest problem – what is the greatest potential? Rather than arbitrary aesthetic or stylistic prejudice, all decisions are based on project specific information - Information Driven Design. Our effort as architects is sandwiched in the window of opportunity between analysis and implementation. And our influence happens in the translation from information to material. In an attempt to increase our sphere of influence on our built environment, we have established BIG IDEAS.[6]

The lab started up with the development of the world's first steam ring generator for the Waste-to-Energy power plant in Copenhagen designed by BIG in 2010. The power plant doubles as a ski slope on its roof and will blow one steam ring for each ton of CO2 emitted by the plant, once completed in 2017.

BIG IDEAS is working in a number of areas directly related to BIG’s architectural projects, many of which remain confidential and involve data from independent think-tanks, as well as exerts from aerospace and material sciences industries. To-date, the following projects are public:

Completed projects

Mountain Dwellings in Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark
8 House in Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark

Under construction

Awards

West 57 on display in Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Exhibitions

Publications

References

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  32. ↑ "A walk in the PARC". World Architecture News. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
  33. ↑ "BIG architects: koutalaki ski village". designboom. Retrieved 2010-01-04.
  34. ↑ A new twist, BIG and Architectural Nexus design the winning proposal for the renovation and expansion of the Kimball Art Center, World Architecture News, 14 Feb 2012
  35. ↑ Kimball Art Center / BIG, by Alison Furuto, ArchDaily, 03 Jan 2012
  36. ↑ BIG wins competition for the new Kimball Art Center in Park City, by David Basulto, ArchDaily, 10 Feb 2012
  37. ↑ BIG Unveils New Scheme for Park City’s Kimball Art Center, by Karissa Rosenfield, ArchDaily, 04 Mar 2014
  38. ↑ BIG Designs Rejected Again for Kimball Art Center, by Finn MacLeod, ArchDaily, 27 Aug 2014
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  40. ↑ "Team BIG+FREAKS Wins Competition for New Cultural Center in Bordeaux". Bustler. Retrieved 2012-07-03.
  41. ↑ "The Red Line". archello. Retrieved 2012-05-08.
  42. ↑ "Rose Rock International Finance Center to be New Icon in Northern China/BIG". Evolo. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
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  45. ↑ "BIG to Extend High Line Vertically with Spiral Tower". ArchDaily. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
  46. ↑ "A ziggurat for King West: Take a peek at Bjarke Ingels’s plan for Toronto". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
  47. ↑ "BIG Reveals Design for "Cascading" Secondary School in Virginia". ArchDaily. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
  48. ↑ "Twisted art museum by BIG to be built across a Norwegian river". Dezeen. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
  49. ↑ "BIG plans twisted museum building for kistefos sculpture park". designboom | architecture & design magazine. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
  50. ↑ "MIPIM Awards Winners 2009 Announced". Bustler. Retrieved 2009-08-26.
  51. ↑ "Urban Land Institute presents Award of Excellence to the Mountain". +MOOD. Retrieved 2009-06-23.
  52. ↑ "Palmarès 2011 – Prix de l'Architecture de l'Académie d'architecture" (in French). batiactu. Retrieved 2011-06-17.
  53. ↑ "The Eyesore of the Month". Retrieved 2013-02-06.
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  55. ↑ "60th Annual Progressive Architecture Awards". Architect. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
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