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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: Albania, Architecture Award, BIG, Competition, Courtyard architecture, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Martha Schwartz Partners, Perforated, Religious architecture
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, consisting of a Mosque, an Islamic Centre, and a Museum of Religious Harmony. The capital Tirana [...]
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Category: Master Plan Tags: Architecture Award, BIG, Landscape architecture, Sweden
BIG + Grontmij + Spacescape are the winning team for the Stockholmsporten master plan competition to design an inviting new entrance portal into Stockholm at the intersection of a newly planned super-junction. The planned Hjulsta Intersection 15 km north of Stockholm where two European highways the E18 and E4 Bypasses converge into a three level [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Architecture Award, BIG, Competition, Finland, Random pattern, Wood
BIG (DK) + Pirmin Jung Engineers for Wood Constructions (CH) + AOA Anttinen Oiva Architects Ltd (FI) + Vahanen Engineers (FI) + Stora Enso (FI) is the winning team to design a prototype wooden construction system for a pilot project in Kouvola, Finland that will serve as a showcase for the sustainable use of timber [...]
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Category: Events/News Tags: Architectural video, BIG, Events/News
A NEW ONLINE CINEMA EXCLUSIVELY STREAMING CUTTING EDGE FILM ABOUT PARKOUR , ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS SPORTS IN THE WORLD, ARCHITECTURE AND THE FUTURE OF URBAN SPACE Kaspar Astrup Schröder’s Film, My Playground, Showcases The Connection Between Buildings and the Human Body Objective Cinema, an online cinema streaming rare and socially conscious documentaries, is [...]
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Category: Architecture Tags: Architecture Award, Art Gallery, BIG, Competition, Fluid form, Greenland, Iconic architecture, Landscape architecture
Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, in collaboration with TNT Nuuk + Ramboll Nuuk + Arkitekti have won the competition to design Greenland‘s New National Gallery. The Danish functionalistic architecture in Nuuk is typically square boxes which ignore the unique nature of Greenland. We therefore propose a national gallery which is both physically and [...]
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Category: Architecture, Residential Tags: Architecture Award, BIG, Competition, Courtyard architecture, Iconic architecture, New York, Skyscrapers, USA, USA architecture, Waterfront architecture
Durst Fetner Residential selects BIG to design 600-unit residential building on W57th Steet in Manhattan, New York. The building is conceived as a cross breed between the Copenhagen courtyard and the New York skyscraper. The communal intimacy of the central urban oasis meets the efficiency, density and panoramic views of the tall tower in a [...]
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Category: Architecture, Industry, Sport Tags: Architecture Award, BIG, Competition, Copenhagen, Denmark, Green architecture
Denmark-based architectural firm BIG, in collaboration with realities:united, AKT, Topotek 1 & Man Made Land have won the the international competition to design a new Waste-To-Energy Plant in Copenhagen, Denmark. The new plant is an example of what we at BIG call Hedonistic Sustainability – the idea that sustainability is not a burden, but that [...]
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Category: Architecture, Mixed Use, Residential, Selected Tags: BIG, Courtyard architecture, Denmark, Waterfront architecture
8 House by Copenhagen architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group has been completed recently. Celebrating its third project with the same development team in the maturing neighborhood of Orestad, the construction of the 61,000 m2 8 House has come to an end, allowing people to bike all the way from the street up to its [...]
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Category: Automotive, Design, Furniture, Industrial Tags: BIG, Bike, KiBiSi, Modern Chair, PUMA
Last year, we introduced the new born design studio KiBiSi and their creations. Furthermore, KiBiSi recently has revealed new designs: NYC Biomega Bike, The Shanghay Chair Wood Wood edition, AiAiAi Headphone TMA-1, Puma Bike Series and 2nd Generation Transition Terrafugia roadable aircraft. + Designer: KiBiSi NYC BIOMEGA BIKE The latest Biomega bicycle, NYC takes its [...]
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Category: Architecture, Culture Tags: BIG, China architecture, Exhibition, Fluid form, Iconic architecture, Shanghai Expo 2010, White
May 1st 2010, is the grand opening day of Shanghai Expo 2010. The Danish Pavilion at Shanghai’s World Expo 2010 designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group opens to the public today. Also see the previous post of Denmark Pavillion for Shanghai Expo 2010. + PRESS RELEASE courtesy of BIG BIG celebrates the grand opening of the [...]
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Category: Design, Furniture Tags: BIG, Denmark, KiBiSi, Milan, Milan Design Week, Modern Chair
KiBiSi debuts at Milan’s annual design fair Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2010 this week, featuring a limited edition chair for Wallpaper* magazine and a piece for Quinze & Milan. Shanghay Chair for Wallpaper* Designed by KiBiSi for the Danish Pavilion of the Shanghai World Expo 2010, the Shanghay chair is composed of 4 small boards [...]
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Category: Architecture, Education Tags: BIG, Fuglark, Landscape architecture, School
BIG and Fuglark have won the competition to design a 19.200 m2 Faroe Islands Education Centre in Torshavn. The project was designed as a vortex, located on a hillside, 100 m above the sea level with a panoramic view overlooking the sea, mountains and harbor of Torshavn. It has successfully created a focusing point as [...]
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