BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

We’re excited to unveil our design for NOT A HOTEL Setouchi, located on the serene Sagi Island in Japan! 🌊🏝️ Set to break ground later this year, NOT A HOTEL's newest resort will feature three villas that weave through the 30,000 m2 site like a ribbon, with panoramic views of the Seto Inland Sea. Building on the longstanding dialogue between Scandinavian and Japanese design values, the remote island retreat incorporates local materials - including Japanese black slate, wood and rammed earth - and a strong connection to nature. “Our design approach for NOT A HOTEL Setouchi wasn’t about imposing our ideas on the site; instead, it involved exploring, observing and understanding the landscape. We envisioned how to best leverage this distinctive and remarkable terrain and fixed upon a design that mirrors the elegance of traditional Japanese architecture. Japan is one of the cultures in the world where commitment to craft and care for quality remains intact. The honesty and simplicity of the structure and careful choice of materials can be said to have greatly influenced the traditional architecture of Japan and the modern architecture of Denmark. Maybe that's why when I go to Japan, I always feel like I'm coming home. NOT A HOTEL Setouchi will be an experiment in what happens when the sensibilities of both countries come together – the Danish desire for simplicity and the care and perfection of Japan." - Bjarke Ingels, Founder & Creative Director, BIG 📷 Mir + LIT design #Arup 1Moku Landscape Design and Research #BOCS #MAEDACorporation #NOSIGHT #NOTAHOTEL #Japan #Setouchi #travel #BIGArchitecture #BIGLON #BIGNYC #BIGLA

The 2023 International Horticultural Expo Pavilion for the UAE, designed by BIG Landscape, is recognized for its material use, innovative landscape design, and plant species selection🌱 The Pavilion is constructed of rammed earth, framing a series of exhibition galleries and 32 gardens planted with 65 species and 6,609 plants. Designed to showcase the region's environmental preservation and agricultural innovation, the 450 m2 Pavilion is inspired by the deep roots and intertwined branches of the drought resistant Ghaf tree. The Pavilion is conceived as a dome-shape, emerging from the earth, gradually rising towards its center and framing polygonal-shaped spaces and gardens to create a maze-like exhibition experience that draws the visitors into its folds. 📸 Shoayb Khattab Photography & Seeing Things UAE Pavilion at Expo ATELIER BRÜCKNER #RammedEarth #Pavilion #InternationalHorticulturalExpo #BIGLandscape #UAEatExpo #UAEPavilion #UAENurturingLegacy

Catch BIG’s Design Technology Specialist Ahmad Tabbakh next week at the BILT Europe conference in Riga where he will speak about Extended Reality and how BIG integrates immersive mediums into design processes!   Tickets are still available here: https://lnkd.in/gG_aDedd   Digital Built Environment Institute

We've joined forces with KU School of Architecture & Design (ArcD) to design the school’s new studio space - a mass timber structure nicknamed the Makers' Kube - in collaboration with BNIM and StructureCraft! 🪵🏫 Designed in direct response to the needs and wishes of the school’s 1,300+ students, faculty and board, the 50,000 sq ft, 6-story Makers’ KUbe features a distinct timber diagrid frame optimized to reduce material and carbon-intensive concrete. The Makers’ KUbe will connect to the existing Marvin and Chalmers Halls via winter garden bridges, consolidating all of the school’s programs into these three buildings. “Our design for the consolidated design studios at KU seeks to deploy all aspects of the profession in three distinct interventions: preservation, adaptation and new construction. The Makers' KUbe is conceived as a showcase in timber tectonics, traditional joinery, robotic manufacturing and sustainable materials. The timber bones of the building are exposed by stripping away all applied finishes - elevating structure to expression. A single staircase doubling as convenience stairs above and fire stairs within ties all student spaces together from park to attic. The building serves as a living curriculum, revealing all function, technology and structure as tangible elements for the students to appreciate and critique - learning solidified into built form.” - Bjarke Ingels, Founder & Creative Director, BIG 📷 Kilograph + BIG The University of Kansas Walter P Moore Cumming Group JE Dunn Construction Smith & Boucher, Inc. Forza Consultants LLC SK Design Group, Inc. Rosin Preservation #Architecture #Design #School #Campus #HigherEducation #MassTimber

As the New European Bauhaus Festival kicks off, we're excited to highlight the Joint Research Center in Sevilla, Spain, which is rooted in the New Bauhaus initiative, connecting the Green Deal to our daily lives and living spaces. The center will become the HQ of the European Commission's international team of 400 scientific researchers and support staff, establishing the vision of the New Bauhaus initiative as a benchmark for collaborative and flexible workspaces that empower co-creation. With its location on the former EXPO´92 site, the building will be directly connected to the ‘Jardin Americano’ riverfront and the Torre Sevilla market, extending the city’s promenade to create a new town square. Inspired by the shaded plazas and streets of the city, the site will be covered with a cloud of solar canopies consisting of photovoltaic sheets, sheltering the plaza, garden, and research center from the southern Spanish sun while mitigating the energy consumption of the new research center. EU Science, Research and Innovation European Commission Ayuntamiento de Sevilla. Buro Happold Grupo Argenia HCP Architecture & Engineering #NewEuropeanBauhaus #JointResearchCenter #Sevilla 📸 Fusão 3D UTURA BARBAR Studio

Check out ICON's CODEX catalog with 3D-printed home collections featuring 60+ designs, including BIG's Storm and Fire homes that mitigate damage and loss due to hurricanes and wildfires; TexNext, which reinterprets 4 beloved Texan housing typologies; and House One, a 3-bedroom home that celebrates indoor/outdoor living. Every home in CODEX is designed to be 3D printed with ICON's newest advanced material, CarbonX. When paired with ICON’s wall system and robotic construction methods, the CarbonX formula is the lowest carbon residential building system ready to be used at scale. 🏘️🤖 FORT Structures STG Design Simpson Engineers & Associates is now WGI Logan Architecture #Texas #FutureHousing #3DPrintedHomes #3DPrinting #Innovation #Architecture #SXSW2024 Fast Company WIRED CNET Bloomberg Popular Science Forbes CNN The Verge

Our 12,000 m2 Marengo Multimodal Transport Hub in France's fourth largest city, Toulouse, will facilitate seamless travel and act as a link between the city center, the UNESCO-listed Canal du Midi and the Périole neighborhood. Located adjacent to the central station, Gare Matabiau, the new building is characterized by a wooden structure and rose-colored, crystalline roof, referencing the Toulouse’s traditional use of the "foraine" brick. The hub unites several modes of transportation under one roof - railway, metro, and bus - with areas for rest, retail and cultural activities. From the main entrance, the canopy structure rises gradually in a sloping movement pulling daylight down to the hub's lowest levels for comfortable and easy navigation for travelers throughout the day. The building is set to attain Silver Occitanie Sustainable Buildings certification, along with the Biodiversity Effinature and HQE Infrastructure certification. #Architecture #BIGLandscape #Transport #Infrastructure #Toulouse #France La Région Occitanie / Pyrénées-Méditerranée #ToulouseMétropole ARAC Occitanie Oppidea Europolia A+Architecture schlaich bergermann partner sbp

Very excited to join StructureCraft next week at the International Mass Timber Conference in Portland, OR! The University of Kansas BNIM

Our new BIG Los Angeles office is looking to expand with the hire of a seasoned licensed architect with Construction Administration experience to execute upon our most recent work in California. Apply via link: https://lnkd.in/edJYFEtB

Excited to share that our projects 1550 on the Green in Houston, Texas and Bassin 7 in Aarhus, Denmark are finalists in the MIPIM Awards in their respective categories, Best Office + Business Project and Best Urban Regeneration Project Category! 🎉🏆🤞 If you're going to the conference in Cannes, show our projects some love with a vote! #MIPIM2024 #Awards #Finalists #Texas #Denmark #DevelopedbySkanska Skanska Kendall/Heaton Associates, Inc. Aarhus Kommune