Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) Projects 2001-2010

As a team of architects, designers, builders and theoreticians, BIG’s reputation and success is well known and widely respected. Architectural or urban design projects or in the research and development field, they are known to actively respond with creative and progressive concepts. This volume reveals their signature design philosophy through the detailed presentation of over 40 completed projects.Bjarke Ingels Group, often referred to as BIG, is a Copenhagen and New York based group of architects, designers and builders operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. As of 2021, the company employs 600 people.Bjarke Ingels and Julien De Smedt established the company PLOT in Copenhagen in January 2001, as a focus for their architectural practice. Ingels established BIG in late 2005 after he and De Smedt closed down PLOT. This drew acclaim for its first completed commission, the Mountain, a residential project in Copenhagen which had been started by PLOT. Over the next couple of years, BIG's projects included a waste-to-energy plant which doubles as a ski-slope in Copenhagen, Denmark, the West 57th Street mixed-use tower in midtown Manhattan for Durst Fetner Residential, the National Art Gallery of Greenland in Nuuk, the headquarters for the Shenzhen Energy Company in Shenzhen, and the Kimball Art Center in Utah. This is a collection of more than forty projects completed by the Copenhagen-based architecture firm between 2001 and 2010. This detailed presentation of their successful projects introduces the reader to their conception process and the results.