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Here’s How BIG’s Power Plant Ski Slope Will Blow Smoke Rings

When BIG‘s proposal for Amager Bakke, a waste-to-energy plant in Copenhagen, was unveiled in 2011, there was a lot for skeptics to pick apart. Is it really possible to run a publicly accessible ski slope on the roof of an… Sigue leyendo →
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Walkable Cities? Rooftoppers Want Climbable Cities

“The city for the people!” is the familiar rallying cry of the reformist architect – but which people, exactly? That’s the question at the heart of rooftopping, a new and thrill seeking variant of Urban Exploration which has recently captured… Sigue leyendo →
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Hillside House / TOOB STUDIO

Architects: TOOB STUDIO
Location: tt. Kỳ Sơn, Hoà Bình, Vietnam
Architect In Charge: Nguyễn Hồng Quang
Area: 120.0 sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Lê Anh Đức – Vũ Ngọc Hà Design Team: Nguyễn Thùy Chung, Nguyễn Ngọc Mai, Ngô Ngân Hà, … Sigue leyendo →
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Kinematix / LIKEarchitects

Architects: LIKEarchitects
Location: Porto, Portugal
Design Team: Diogo Aguiar, Teresa Otto, João Jesus and Tània Costa Coll, Álvaro Vila Iturbe
Client: Kinematix
Year: 2014
Photographs: Dinis Sottomayor Photography From the architect.… Kinematix is a spatial proposal developed for the headquarters Sigue leyendo →
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Kinematix / LIKEarchitects

Architects: LIKEarchitects
Location: Porto, Portugal
Design Team: Diogo Aguiar, Teresa Otto, João Jesus and Tània Costa Coll, Álvaro Vila Iturbe
Client: Kinematix
Year: 2014
Photographs: Dinis Sottomayor Photography From the architect.… Kinematix is a spatial proposal developed for the headquarters Sigue leyendo →
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Win a BIG Trip to Copenhagen

Daydreaming about a trip to Copenhagen? Now is your chance to go. As part of BIG’s HOT TO COLD… exhibition on view at the National Building Museum, Visit Denmark is hosting a sweepstakes for two to see the architectural and cultural sights Sigue leyendo →
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BIG Designs Danish Recycling Center as Neighborhood Asset

Waste management and recycling centers are typically designed as utilitarian facilities shunned to an industrial part of the city. Yet Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) is challenging this notion by designing a Copenhagen recycling station that serves as an “attractive and lively urban space” in the… Sigue leyendo →
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Animated Film Envisions BIG’s Manhattan “Dry Line”

A vision to protect post-Sandy Manhattan against future superstorms, Bjarke Ingels Group’s (BIG) “Dry Line” seeks to form a continuous storm barrier around lower Manhattan by transforming underutilized waterfront spaces into a “protective ribbon” of public parks and amenities. Though ambitious, the project… Sigue leyendo →
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BIG, Heatherwick and The Living Named Among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Architectural Practices of 2015

Fast Company has announced who they believe to be the most innovative practices in architecture for 2015. Topping this list is the online remodeling community Houzz, the BIG powerhouse and David Benjamin’s The Living. See the complete list, after the break, and… Sigue leyendo →
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HOT TO COLD: BIG’s “Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation” Opens at the National Building Museum

Circle the globe in 800-feet at the National Building Museum’s latest exhibition HOT TO COLD. BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group’s first North American exhibition, HOT TO COLD… takes viewers on an “odyssey of architectural adaptation” from the “hottest Sigue leyendo →
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