e-architect select architecture by BIG Architects from around the world. Discover key buildings and architectural designs by this international architects office headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, also with an active office in New York, USA.
The website features a selection of the best new building designs by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, a respected international design firm. The practice is led by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels.
He originally wanted to be a cartoonist, and only began to study architecture in 1993 to help improve his drawing skills. His ‘Yes is More’ manifesto is even available in comic book form.
He has put his manifesto into practice in a wide range of innovative, award-winning projects, often with collaborators
Finally, BIG Architects are the winners of major architectural commissions and awards. Check out our tag archives for this Danish design studio.
BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and LEGO bring the toy scale of the classic LEGO brick to architectural scale with LEGO House, forming vast exhibition spaces and public squares that embody the culture and values at the heart of all LEGO experiences.
BIG is a Copenhagen-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 as programmatically and technically innovative as they are cost and resource conscious.
A short film about the 8 House designed by Bjarke Ingels in Copenhagen. This building by BIG is an intriguing development that tries to create new ways of mass living: “a lively urban neighborhood into horizontal layers of typologies connected by a continuous promenade and cycling path”.
Design: BIG Architects. Bjarke Ingels’ design for the NYPD 40th precinct police station consists of intersecting blocks clad in concrete, metal and glass. The 45,000 sqft (4,180 sqm) building will be located in the Melrose neighbourhood of the Bronx.
BIG Architects Monograph – architectural book by Arquitectura Viva for Bjarke Ingels Group – BIG Architects book: Danish architect Bjarke Ingels leads an architecture offices in Copenhagen, New York and Beijing.
BIG (Biarke Ingels Group) architects, based in Copenhagen and more recently New York, are a relatively small firm (only 160 staff) but have rock star status because, when they’re involved, things are not always what they seem.
Japanese / English Monograph on the work of New York and Copenhagen based BIG: Bjarke Ingels Group in their RECENT PROJECT series which includes luminaries such as OMA, Frank Gehry and Tadao Ando among others
BIG + Paris-based architects OFF, engineers Buro Happold, consultants Michel Forgue and environmental engineer Franck Boutte is the winning team to design the new 15.000 m2 research centre for Sorbonne’s Scientific university Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris
BIG, Martha Schwartz Landscape, Buro Happold, Speirs & Major, Lutzenberger & Lutzenberger, and Global Cultural Asset Management are today announced as the winning team of the international design competition for a new 27.000 m2 cultural complex in Albania.
The Technology Entertainment & Design Center – aka TED Taipei – is a dense urban block of all kinds of activities related to contemporary technology and media.
BIG House is where you will find the attention to detail embedded in a larger context. Here, closeness thrives in the 60,000 m2 building.
Yes is More Exhibition by BIG Architects, Arc en Rêve, Bordeaux, France : Yes is More – Comic Strip Architecture Book, BIG Architects book
The Danish pavilion at EXPO 2010 will give visitors the opportunity to try some of the best aspects of Danish city life themselves.
The Mountain Dwellings are the 2nd generation of the VM Houses – same client, same size and same street. The program, however, is 2/3 parking and 1/3 living.
Scala Tower, Copenhagen, Architecture, Photo, Architect, Design Scala Tower Copenhagen Contemporary Danish Tower Building – design by BIG architects 10 Nov 2008 Scala Tower Design: BIG architects Scala Tower in Copenhagen Nye Bygning i København Visible from the Central Station, the Town Hall Square and the Tivoli Gardens, Scala on the Axel Square is located … Read more
BIG are looking for a Project Leader to head up the BIG team responsible for developing the new Presidential Library in Astana, Kazakhstan.
BIG, in collaboration with ARUP and Transsolar, was awarded first-prize in an international competition to design Shenzhen International Energy Mansion, the regional headquarters for the Shenzhen Energy Company.