Bjarke Ingels (born in Copenhagen, 1974) studied architecture at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and at the School of Architecture of Barcelona, obtaining his degree as an architect in 1998. He is the founder of the BIG architecture studio - (Bjarke Ingels Group), studio founded in 2005, after co-founding PLOT Architects in 2001 with his former partner Julien de Smedt, whom he met while working at the prestigious OMA studio in Rotterdam.
Bjarke has designed and completed award-winning buildings worldwide, and currently his studio is based with venues in Copenhagen and New York. His projects include The Mountain, a residential complex in Copenhagen, and the innovative Danish Maritime Museum in Elsinore.
With the PLOT study, he won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2004, and with BIG he has received numerous awards such as the ULI Award for Excellence in 2009. Other prizes are the Culture Prize of the Crown Prince of Denmark in 2011; and Along with his architectural practice, Bjarke has taught at Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University and Rice University and is an honorary professor at the Royal Academy of Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen.
In 2018, Bjarke received the Knight's Cross of the Order of Dannebrog granted by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II. He is a frequent public speaker and continues to give lectures at places such as TED, WIRED, AMCHAM, 10 Downing Street or the World Economic Forum. In 2018, Bjarke was appointed Chief Architectural Advisor by WeWork to advise and develop the design vision and language of the company for buildings, campuses and neighborhoods around the world.
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The 43,500-square-foot building takes shape after it's basic requirements, where individual volumes contain specific elements of program. From the outside, the 40th Precinct resembles a stack of bricks, referencing the rusticated bases of early NYC Police Stations. Inside, acording BIG"the station is enhanced with amenities that encourage dialogue with the community while providing spaces for officers to reduce stress and promote physical activity." This includes the addition of an exercise courtyard with training areas and a climbing wall.
The 40th Precinct will also house a brand new piece of city program: "the first ever community meeting room in a precinct. With its own street-level entrance, the multipurpose space will contain information kiosks and areas to hold classes or events, encouraging civic engagement with the precinct," says the architects. And add "The building also expresses the city’s commitment to environmental responsibility. It will be the first NYPD station with a green roof - using non-reflective materials such as sandblasted concrete to optimize the building’s energy performance - surpassing the requirements necessary for LEED Silver certification."
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Architects.- Bjarke Ingels Group
Partners In Charge.- Bjarke Ingels, Beat Schenk, Daniel Sundlin, Thomas Christoffersen.
Project Leaders.- Liz McDonald, Sören Grünert
Project Architect.- Aran Coakley.
Design Team.- Adam Sheraden, David Sharratt, Hsiao Rou Huang, Jacob Waas, Jennifer Ng, Kelli Reinhardt, Ku Hun Chung, Liyang Zhang, Peter Lee, Phillip MacDougall.
Collaborators.- Silman, Cosentini, DACK, Tillotson, Starr Whitehouse, Philip Habib, Carlin Simpson & Associates, The Friday Group, Cerami, CCI, Urban Arborists, The Facade Group, Prime Engineering.
Location.- 378 E 156th St, Bronx, NY 10455, USA
Client.- NYC Department of Design & Construction
Area.- 4180.0 sqm
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Bjarke Ingels is considered one of the architects of our time, with projects such as the BIG U, which contains a plan to fortify the whole south tip of Manhattan against future storms and rising sea levels. His architectural vision evolves around a philosophy that could be described as a pragmatic utopianism, combining everyday needs with sustainable solutions to the climatic challenges.
We live in the anthropogenic age, where humans don’t adapt to life, but life adapts to human needs, Ingels explains, which makes his advice to young architects designing tomorrow’s world simple and clear. The key for young architects is to acquire the tools and language to comprehend the human needs outside of the architectural bubble, and understand that they are here to accommodate - and not to be accommodated.
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The lecture will take place at 6PM at CCCB, Carrer de Montalegre, 5 Barcelona.
-Biography from ted.com. "Bjarke Ingels is principal of BIG, based in Copenhagen. An alumnus of Rem Koolhaas' OMA practice, Ingels takes a similar approach: experimenting with pure space, but never losing sight of the building as a solution to a real-world problem. His manifesto "Yes Is More" takes the form of a giant cartoon strip, 130 meters long, that reminds people to keep thinking big -- to see all our modern problems as challenges that inspire us.
His deeply-thought-out and often rather large works -- including several skyscrapers and mixed-use projects in a developing section of Copenhagen, plus a project for a new commercial harbor-island -- work to bring coherence to the urban fabric and to help their occupants and users lead better lives. His most famous works include: the Stavanger Concert House, Tallinn’s city hall and the VM Houses. He recently won a competition to design Copenhagen’s waste-to-energy plant with a design that will place a ski slope on top of the structure."
2012 ACSA International Conference
CHANGE, Architecture, Education, Practices
June 20-22, 2012 | Barcelona, Spain
Co-chairs: Xavier Costa, Northeastern University + Martha Thorne, IE University
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On Friday, November 5, at a Gala Diner and special Award’s Ceremony, together with Colegio Oficial de Arquitecturos de Madrid, Madrid’s Mayor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez will officially present Mr. Ingels with the lauris nobilis—symbolic of the European Prize.
Mr. Ingels will give a lecture preceding the dinner at 6:00PM at Centro de Turismo Colón, Plaza Colón, Madrid.
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Although I am not a regular reader of this publication, (it known as very conservative in its editorial), however I have to admit that his drawings have become classics and they are, in many cases, brilliant critics. Than on a magazine, when more and more publications have slashed or eliminated architecture coverage and criticism, shows an big article about architects, deserves attention.
For some, just the fact that this magazine conduct a profile about Bjarke Ingels is enough credit to think that it is positive. The New Yorker published a whopping 14 pages!!, Yeah, fourteen and not seven, from pages 76 to 89. Some people thought that devoting 14 pages, to show someone's profile, always is positive. Well it seems that not much.
When you fixed attention on the text, your eyes do not give credit. The character is treated with excess and "praise" in reality with this kind of texts, you don't need enemies. The article, by Ian Parker, has a large string of "pearls". The text that everyone can read for free, only corresponds to the first page (after you must to pay or have access to the print version). Parker starts doing a description of the family of the architect, training and the creation of the office he heads. In the following pages, Ian Paker collects a decalogue of frivolous ideas, by Ingels, about other architects, as Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Toyo Ito or Ennead Architects, among others .
The text goes on and on. In the words by Ashley Wells (who made us pay attention to the text, in his article) The text is long and uses the pages "revealing his previous ambitions (graphic novelist!), and detailing his infamous, enormous ego."
The 14 pages are at least boring or as Ashley Wells says with brilliant sarcasm: "Criticism is important in the design world, considering most architects look at a project and immediately think of ways they could have done it better. And because Ingels has an ego as large as his buildings, it’s likely the New Yorker profile will bring him additional condemnation."
It may be true and you need the architecture are rock stars, a personality with whom people can to have connection, or not! and yet despite strong criticism from his fellow. Seen from Spain, when the architecture is to developed with those parameters is too much embarrassing, look the remains!
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Vía to the New York Times, the pair are working on "a series of canopy-like buildings" for the search giant, which has not been made public the location, but the project have been discussed with members of Mountain View City Council.
Representatives from both Heatherwick Studio in London and BIG's office in Copenhagen have confirmed their involvement in the project.
Both studios are well-known for their architecture and design. Heatherwick Studio, a London design firm known for works like the fiery caldron at the 2012 Olympics or projects including a new border, new pier in New York's Hudson River, while BIG's portfolio features a combined the Lego House project, and the underground Danish Maritime Museum, between the 5 Finalists of the 2015 MIES Award.
The move follows in the footsteps of fellow Silicon Valley companies Apple and Facebook – both of which are working with high-profile architects on their new office complexes. Foster + Partners is behind Apple's huge ring-shaped headquarters underway in Cupertino, while Facebook enlisted Frank Gehry for its new campus on the edge of San Francisco Bay.
However, Leonard M. Siegel, a 66-year-old environmental activist who was recently elected to the Mountain View City Council said.- “Everyone else wishes they were in our situation, but it’s a crisis for the people here.”
When Google moved here in 1999, it had a dozen employees and a search engine known only to computer aficionados. Now, its 20,000 local employees make it the biggest employer in a city that is bursting at the seams.
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