Entrevista Bjarke Ingels (1) Bjarke Ingels @ ETSAM, "Yes is more" SHENZHEN ENERGY MANSION. West 57th Street Residential Building. 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 new hybrid typology. The courtyard is to architecture what Central Park is to urbanism: a giant green garden surrounded by a dense wall of spaces for living.Bjarke Ingels, Founder, BIG West 57th Street Residential Building - Conceptual diagram, drawing courtesy BIG + Press release by BIG West 57th, designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, introduces an entirely new residential typology to New York City that will add an inviting twist to the Manhattan Skyline.
Durst Fetner Residential (DFR) today announced the design of West 57, a 600-unit 80/20 residential building on West 57th Street between 11th and 12th Avenues. . + Project credits / data + About BIG. BIG's Ice Rink Melts Boundaries Between Indoor and Outdoor. Talk is cheap, and so are architectural concepts: Public works are notoriously difficult to execute well, so you'll have to excuse us if we don't fall all over ourselves about pretty drawings.
And yet! These designs for a public ice rink in Sweden look innovative and realistic, taking natural landforms into account and creating a delightful hybrid structure that's part indoor, part outdoor, and totally gorgeous. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group, the 4600-square-meter rink in Umea will sit in a bowl-shaped plot bisected by a built structure with a turfed roof. The indoor/outdoor interface created by this structure is a huge glazed surface that "acts as the 'eye' towards the outside. " Half of the big scooped-out cupola will be open to the air -- BIG's concepts show a winter wonderland of sledding kids and strolling couples -- while the other half will be underneath the green roof, housing a formal rink for hockey games and casual stadium-style seating around it. [Via Designboom] Can Designing for a Dictator Actually Be Virtuous?
Just shy of 36 years old, Bjarke Ingels is, without a doubt, the most precocious contemporary architect on the international scene today.
And his firm, BIG -- short for Bjarke Ingels Group -- is about to become even more prominent. After several splashy commissions in their home-base of Denmark, the firm is now opening a New York office that will work on several high-profile projects in the city, including a high-rise condo in Manhattan and other, big-time commissions that remain confidential for now. Ingels cut his teeth working for Rem Koolhaas at OMA and just like the master, Ingels's buildings have a severe, monolithic aesthetic. But when explained, they reveal an irresistible logic. Ingels recently sat down with Co.Design to talk about his upcoming works and what may be his most controversial commission yet, the Astana National Library, commissioned by the president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who oversees an infamously dictatorial and corrupt government.
Well said. Can a Modern Mosque in Copenhagen Settle the Disputes Between Danes and Muslims? Bjarke Ingels Group has conceived of an island resort out of thin air, kidnapped Denmark’s national treasure to show off at the Shanghai Expo, and designed a library for a Kazakh dictator who makes Ivan the Terrible look like St.
Francis of Assisi. None of which compares to the audacity of this: They’re building Copenhagen’s first ground-up mosque, and it looks like a giant minaret. The design is gorgeous, a sort of patterned ziggurat that climbs 150 feet in the air, before culminating in a dome-shaped skylight; over the sidewalk, a pair of slender minarets preside. But in a country where the right makes no secret of its anti-Muslim sentiment, and where ill-conceived cartoons stoked an international crisis a few years ago, the mosque is bound to stir emotions.
It speaks volumes that the architects felt the need to describe the building in Danish terms. Is this just window dressing? BIG architects.