2008 Europe 40 under 40
BJARKE INGELS
DENMARK
Founded in 2006, Bjarke Ingels Group - BIG - is a Copenhagen based group of 50 architects, designers, builders and thinkers operating within the field of architecture, urbanism, research and development.
Their innovative building projects have received a lot of international acknowledgement, and the group has won several prizes.
BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes. In their projects, BIG tests the effects of size and the balance of programmatic mixtures on the triple bottom line of the social, economical and ecological outcome. Like a form of programmatic alchemy, they create architecture by mixing conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, and shopping.
Top: Danish Maritime Museum in Helsingor (2007).
Middle: Loverkarreen, China.
Bottom: Norwegian Ski Hotel (2008)
