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Bjarke Ingels Group – Contemporary Architecture Practice, Copenhagen, Denmark
26 Dec 2016
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BIG Annual Update
In BIG’s 11th year, the CPH and NYC offices were joined by a new office in London.
Projects new and old received many great honors, including the Aga Khan Award for Superkilen and the Danish Steel Prize for the Danish Maritime Museum, and Bjarke was recognized by Time Magazine in their annual TIME 100 Most Influential People.
2016 marked the completion of many pivotal projects for this architecture firm, with the opening of six projects in different parts of the globe. BIG established a NYC design studio in 2010 to work on VIA W57: the project was completed in 2016 and residents moved into the courtscraper on Manhattan?s west side. In addition to garnering numerous awards, including the CTBUH?s Best Tall Building in the Americas Award and the International Highrise Award 2016, VIA 57 was praised by the New York Times, which stated that ?no building redrew the city?s skyline more ingeniously.”
Other projects that opened this year include the twisting Coconut Grove towers in Miami, the Intrepid office building in Philadelphia?s Navy Yard, Transitlager, the mixed-use conversion in Basel, and the first prototype of the next generation of affordable student housing, Urban Rigger, now parked in Copenhagen?s ...