News Bjarke Ingels’ “parkipelago” flood defence system opens in Manhattan A section of a 2.25-mile-long series of interconnected parks that act as a flood defence in Manhattan, New York, has opened to the public. It’s officially called the East Side…
News Bjarke Ingels’ Albanian project aims to create “interfaith harmony” Danish architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has won a competition to design Faith Park, a 200,000-square-metre park on a hillside near Tirana, Albania. The project features nine pavilions, each…
News Hungary’s new national history museum will hide in the forest Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has won a design competition for the new, 23,000-sq-m site of Hungary’s Natural History Museum in the country’s second city of Debrecen. Hungary’s Ministry…
News Bjarke Ingels Group designs modular timber airport for Bhutan Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group has designed Bhutan’s second international airport as part of Gelephu Mindfulness City near the Bhutan-Indian border and the Himalayas. The 68,000-sq-m Gelephu International Airport will…
News BIG designs Danish hospice expansion Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has announced a design for a palliative care unit for the Sankt Lukas Hospice in Hellerup, in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen. The expansion…
News Bjarke Ingels Group wins Kosovo competition with skirt-shaped opera house Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group has won a competition to design an opera and ballet theatre in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo. The 42,395 sq m timber structure will be…
News Planners approve Bjarke Ingels mixed-use scheme for LA arts district Los Angeles’ Planning Commission has approved “670 Mesquit”, a mixed-used development at the edge of the city’s Arts District designed by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in association with…
News Bjarke Ingels Group designs its own HQ in Copenhagen’s industrial harbour Work has been completed on Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group’s self-designed head office, located on a pier in Copenhagen’s Nordhavn waterfront. Naturally, the practice has made the building as environment-friendly…
News Decommissioned power plant to form centrepiece of Connecticut island park Architect Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and landscape architect Scape have announced plans to redevelop a former industrial site on an island in the city of Norwalk, southeast Connecticut. A coal-fired…
News Bjarke Ingels Group to turn Danish Aldi into Museum for Paper Art Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group is to redevelop an Aldi supermarket as the Museum for Paper Art. The store, in the north of the Jutland peninsula, will be expanding from…
News Bjarke Ingels-designed art village tops out in China Construction on the Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by ARTS Group, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Front Inc. has topped out in Jiangsu province, close to Shanghai. The 60,000-sq-m…
News Bjarke Ingels unveils wooden cube design for University of Kansas Denmark’s Bjarke Ingels Group, BNIM and the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Design are collaborating on a 50,000 sq m mass-timber building for the university. The six-storey Makers’…
News Bjarke Ingels and A+ reveal design for Toulouse transport hub A+ Architects and Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) have unveiled their design for a 1.2ha transport centre for Toulouse. The Marengo Multimodal Transport Hub will be located by the Gare Matabiau,…
News Bjarke Ingels Group and HNTB win $1.5bn Las Vegas baseball ground Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group and Kansas-based designer HNTB have won a competition to imagine a baseball stadium for the Athletics baseball team. The team, commonly known as the As,…
News Bjarke Ingels Group unveils its design for Manhattan’s Freedom Plaza Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has unveiled its design for the “Freedom Plaza”, a civic and cultural hub on the shores of Manhattan’s East River. The project, which is being developed…
News Arup and BIG reveal plan for Bhutan’s ‘Mindfulness City’ The masterplan for a “Mindfulness City” in the southern Bhutanese town of Gelephu has been unveiled by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), UK engineer Arup and Singaporean consultant Cistri.…
News Bjarke Ingels’ 314m “Spiral” skyscraper is completed in New York Construction has completed on the Spiral, a 314m-tall, 66-storey office tower designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) for Manhattan’s lower west side. Developed by Tishman Speyer and built by Turner…
News Bjarke Ingels Group designs off-grid island for British clothing brand Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has designed a 4.5ha, off-grid island for British active wear brand Vollebak. Vollebak Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia, is accessible by boat,…