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Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels (Danish pronunciation: [ˈpjɑːkə ˈpɔnkɒ ˈe̝ŋˀl̩s]; born 2 October 1974) is a Danish architect, founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). In Denmark, Ingels became well known after designing two housing complexes in Ørestad : VM Houses and Mountain Dwellings .
Bjarke Ingels Group, often referred to as BIG, is a Copenhagen, New York City, London, Barcelona, Shanghai, Oslo, Los Angeles, Zurich, and Bhutan-based group of architects and designers operating within the fields of architecture, product, landscape design, and planning. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout ...
Under construction in July 2015 Bjarke Ingels's model for the West 57 project. Bjarke Ingels met the New York developer Douglas Durst Chairman of The Durst Organization in the early 2000s when he was in Denmark. Durst, who visited Ingels' Copenhagen studio in February 2010, found him very inventive, noting that unlike other architects, "What ...
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Despite the fact that Bjarke Ingels and Julien De Smedt had not built anything on such a large scale before, he decided to commission PLOT, their architecture firm, to design VM Houses. Høpfner's son Peter explained how cooperative Ingels turned out to be, always ready to adapt his plans if the costs were too high.
The generation is spearheaded by Bjarke Ingels whose firm BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) founded in 2006 has made an unusually rapid transition into a well-established firm. From the beginning, BIG received international recognition for a number of projects, including Mountain Dwellings in Ørestad .
Referring to his second example of "architectural alchemy", Bjarke Ingels explains his idea "that by mixing traditional ingredients, retail, rowhouses and apartments in untraditional ways, you create added value, if not gold." [3] This is achieved by stacking the various ingredients of an urban neighbourhood into layers. They are connected by a ...
In 2017, Danish architect, Bjarke Ingels explained his vision for the building's unique design. [4] The building itself reflects what LEGO play and the LEGO values are all about. The brick has been incorporated into the architecture in a simple but ingenious way, and visualises the systematic creativity that lies at the very core of all LEGO play.