BIG has completed The Twist art gallery that twirls "like a deck of cards" and bridges the river dividing Kistefos sculpture park in Norway.
Described by BIG's founder Bjarke Ingels as "an inhabitable bridge", the primary goal of the aluminium-clad art gallery is to improve the park's circulation by offering a new river crossing.
The statement twist at its centre is designed to reconcile the different heights of the river banks, and in turn creates a distinctive sculptural aesthetic.

"What's really incredible about Kistefos is the sculpture park. The idea of the museum was more of an add on, but by making it into a bridge, it really became an integral part," Ingels told Dezeen.
"It's not like you go to the museum then you go to the sculpture park and then you go home, you go through the sculpture park, roughly halfway you go through the museum and then you continue."
Kistefos Museum and Sculpture Park was founded in 1996 by Christen Sveaas on the former site of his wood pulp business. It comprises an industrial museum, exhibition galleries and sculpture park with a collection of artwork by the likes of Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, and Fernando Botero.
BIG first revealed the design for The Twist in 2015 after winning a competition held by Sveaas that invited designs for a new museum for contemporary art that would transform the site into a "must-see cultural destination".
The Twist was chosen for its ambition to reconfigu...