Tag Big – Bjarke Ingels Group

13-07-2021

The architecture of the future: winners of the 2021 WAFX Prize

The twelve winners of the World Architecture Festival (WAF) awards for unbuilt architectural projects, the WAFX 2021 Prize, have been announced. The candidates are projects from all over the world addressing today’s global challenges, from controlling pandemics to the climate crisis, from food supplies to social equality, diversity and cultural identity and so on, divided by category: office, residential, education and health, culture, leisure and experimentation.

31-05-2021

Vancouver House designed by BIG studio named Best Tall Building Worldwide 2021

On the occasion of the 2021 Tall + Urban Innovation conference organised by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), the winners of the 18th edition of the CTBUH Awards were announced. The jury selected the winners of the 29 categories into which the rich programme of prizes is divided, as well as naming the overall winner. For the 2021 edition of the prestigious Awards, the Best Tall Building Worldwide is the Vancouver House: a residential skyscraper designed in the Canadian city with the same name by the BIG studio, founded by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels.

21-04-2021

BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group designs O-Tower, Oppo Headquarters in Hangzhou

The BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group has designed an iconic new building in Hangzhou. The building is the new headquarters of OPPO’s R&D division, a leading Chinese smartphone manufacturer. The new building will symbolise the perfect balance between refined aesthetics and innovative technology characterising the company’s products and will become the gateway to the Future Sci-Tech City of Hangzhou, a district born from the collaboration between the local administration and the e-commerce giant Alibaba.

26-02-2021

Curved steel façade for BIG’s The Smile building

BIG has constructed a building on 126th Street in Harlem, New York, with a façade made of interlocking blackened steel panels. The building’s curved shape has earned it the nickname “The Smile”.

05-02-2021

449 Architectural projects submitted for the Mies van der Rohe Award

The list of 449 architectural projects submitted for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2022, located in 279 cities in 41 countries, was announced on February 2. 514 architectural practices compete for the European Union’s most important award for architecture, presented by the European Commission and Fundació Mies van der Rohe. For the first time, the current edition also includes works built in Armenia, Moldavia and Tunisia.

20-01-2021

Winners of the 2021 AIANY Design Awards

AIA New York’s annual Design Awards program recognises outstanding architectural design by AIA New York members. This year’s jury met online to select the winners in four of the five categories: Architecture, Interiors, Projects, and Urban Design. No awards were given this year in the Sustainability category.

13-01-2021

Greening the City, exhibition at the DAM in Frankfurt

It is evident that green plays a vital role in architecture, and we are all familiar with iconic examples of landmarks adorned with greenery. But it’s time to up the ante and think on a larger scale to make our cities greener in general. The DAM exhibition called Greening the City opens at the end of the month, and there is still time to submit green projects to be included on an interactive map.

25-12-2020

BIG’s glass and timber Student Centre for Johns Hopkins University

Construction of the new Hopkins Student Centre is due to begin in 2022 and be completed in 2024. The glass and timber structure has earned the building the nickname “the beach next door”

10-12-2020

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet Le Brassus

Iwan Baan’s photographs beautifully represent Le Brassus’s Musée Atelier Audemars Piguet in the heart of the snow-covered Vallée de Joux. The museum opened in June 2020, built to plans by architect Bjarke Ingels and his studio, BIG, as an expansion on the historic premises of famous Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet.