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Dymak HQ / BIG

Nina Vuga — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0000

Set between an industrial area and the natural landscape surrounding Glisholm Lake, Dymak's new headquarters in Odense is conceived as a circular building wrapped around a sheltered green courtyard. Designed by BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, the DGNB Gold, Heart and Diamond-certified headquarters combines office spaces, showrooms, and shared facilities within a 2,800 m2 building that brings daylight, landscape, and social interaction into the center of the company's daily life.

Not a Hotel Setouchi Resort / BIG

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Surrounded by the Seto Inland Sea, NOT A HOTEL's newest resort – NOT A HOTEL Setouchi – is now open on the remote island of Sagishima. The three distinct villas are made of soil directly from the site using the traditional rammed earth technique, carved into the island's mountainous terrain. Made up of three villas, a beachfront restaurant, and a private beach, NOT A HOTEL Setouchi is set on a 30,000-m2 site on the southwestern cape of Sagishima. Designed by BIG with construction taking less than two years, fractional ownership was offered through NOT A HOTEL's shared ownership model, building upon the brand's network of luxury vacation homes across Japan.

Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art / BIG

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art (Suzhou MoCA), designed by BIG, will soon open its doors to the public for the exhibition, Materialism. Conceived as a village of 12 pavilions under a ribbon-like roof, the 60,000-m2 museum offers a modern interpretation of the garden elements that have defined Suzhou's urbanism, architecture, and landscape for centuries. Materialism, curated by BIG, will take visitors on a material odyssey starting from stone and ending with recyclate.

East Side River Park / BIG

Hadir Al Koshta — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 06:00:00 +0000

The 2.25-mile flood protection system dubbed the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (ESCR) has reached a major milestone with the opening of key areas of East River Park. Conceived as a "parkipelago" of interconnected parks along the East River waterfront, the project creates a series of elevated green spaces that double as flood barriers while offering new public amenities for the surrounding Lower East Side neighborhood.

Bloomberg Student Center / BIG + Rockwell Group + Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates

Pilar Caballero — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 05:00:00 +0000

Text description provided by Johns Hopkins University. As part of the kickoff celebration of its 150th anniversary, Johns Hopkins University officially dedicated the new Bloomberg Student Center, its first facility built solely for student life. This landmark addition to the university's historic Homewood campus reflects the aspirations of students who for generations have sought spaces to connect, socialize, and participate in student organizations and the performing arts, and much more.

Claremont McKenna College Robert Day Sciences Center / BIG

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 05:00:00 +0000

The new Robert Day Sciences Center at Claremont McKenna College maximizes multidisciplinary integration and interaction: each level of the 135,000-sq-ft building is oriented in a different direction, channeling the flow of people and ideas between the labs, classrooms, and the surrounding campus. Commissioned in 2020, the Robert Day Sciences Center serves a community of 1,400 students. The center is BIG's first built project in Los Angeles, and the first completed building in the BIG-designed masterplan for CMC's Roberts Campus, which envisions a more unified campus shaped by a series of buildings that extend the central mall and adjacent sports bowl currently under construction. Collaborators on the Sciences Center include Saiful Bouquet as Structural Engineer, KPRS Construction as General Contractor, and IDS Real Estate Group as Construction Manager.

Jinji Lake Pavilion / BIG

Hadir Al Koshta — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:00:00 +0000

BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group has completed the 1,200-m2 Jinji Lake Pavilion in Suzhou, China. Situated on the Jinji waterfront, the pavilion offers a space for public gatherings and hospitality and is one of the eleven permanent pavilions developed as part of the City's initiative to create a vibrant and welcoming promenade.

Piranesian HQ and Park / BIG

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 07:00:00 +0000

At the tip of Sundmolen in Copenhagen, BIG's new 4,488 m2 headquarters stands among warehouses and maritime infrastructure. Completed in the spring of 2024, the HQ is one of the studio's first realized examples of BIG's integrated LEAPP approach – a collaboration between BIG's internal Landscape, Engineering, Architecture, Planning, and Product Design teams. The building is made of Uni-Green concrete developed in close collaboration with Unicon. Located on a narrow pier in Copenhagen's Nordhavn neighborhood, BIG's new headquarters is a 27-meter-tall, 7-story structure, anchored in the harbor's industrial heritage.

The Spiral / BIG

Paula Pintos — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Named the world’s Best Tall Building in its category by The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat at the organization’s annual conference last week, The Spiral visually extends the landscape of the nearby High Line Park up and around The Spiral’s exterior, allowing access to green outdoor terraces from each of the building’s 66 stories.

IQON Building / BIG

Paula Pintos — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Traditionally a city of dense low-rise buildings, the skyline of Quito was re-imagined following the relocation of the city-center airport over a decade ago. With the skyline able to grow upwards, Uribe Schwarzkopf hired BIG in 2017 to design a 390,000 sq ft mixed-use residential building, including 215 residences, commercial units, office spaces, and a variety of amenities. In addition to IQON, BIG and Uribe Schwarzkopf's EPIQ Residences, located nearby, is slated to finish construction in 2023.

Sneglehusene Housing / BIG

Paula Pintos — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0000

The ‘Sneglehusene’ is BIG’s contribution to the ambitious master plan of Nye, a neighborhood developed north of Denmark’s second-largest city, Aarhus. Conceived as a porous wall, a total of six buildings gently curve around a pond and a green boardwalk at the heart of the development.

CapitaSpring / BIG + Carlo Ratti Associati

Paula Pintos — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0000

CapitaSpring is a 280-meter-tall high-rise oasis that continues the city’s pioneering vertical urbanism with a diverse neighborhood of restaurants, office space, a Citadines serviced residence, and sky gardens from the ground all the way up to the 51st floor. In 2018, the building was accorded Green Mark Platinum & Universal Design GoldPLUS certifications by the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore.

50 Queens Installation / BIG

Paula Pintos — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000

50 pedestals are exhibited in honor of 50 significant female figures from Danish history. The exhibition takes place at, which during the exhibition period will be renamed 'Dronningens Nytorv'. It is expected that up to 100,000 will experience the exhibition, after which some pedestals travel to selected places in the country.

Sluishuis Residential Building / BIG + Barcode Architects

Paula Pintos — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Modern building blocks on the water. Sluishuis is a contemporary translation of the typology of the Amsterdam building block that responds specifically to its special location in the water. The volume is elevated on one side to allow the water into the courtyard and stepped down on the other side to make an inviting gesture towards IJburg with friendly green terraces. From every angle, you experience the Sluishuis volume differently. Whether you are standing on the dyke, motorway, or bridge, walking across the jetties or public route over the roof, or even viewing the building from the air: Sluishuis knows how to surprise you from all sides.

Google Bay View / BIG + Heatherwick Studio

Paula Pintos — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and Heatherwick Studios in close collaboration with Google, Bay View is Google's first-ever ground-up campus with the mission to operate on carbon-free energy, 24 hours a day, seven days a week by 2030. The buildings deliver on Google's ambition to create human-centric, sustainable innovations for the future of Google's workplace as well as scalable, replicable solutions for the construction industry and beyond.

FLUGT Refugee Museum of Denmark / BIG

Paula Pintos — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Located at the site of Denmark’s largest Refugee camp from World War II, FLUGT, gives a voice and a face to refugees worldwide and captures the universal challenges, emotions, spirits,s, and stories shared by displaced humans. FLUGT is BIG’s second museum for Vardemuseerne: a local institution dedicated to archaeology, dissemination, and collection of historical knowledge about the region. BIG has adapted and extended one of the camp’s few remaining structures – a hospital building – into a 1,600 m2 museum.

Biosphere at Treehotel / BIG

Paula Pintos — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Northern Sweden is known for its natural beauty, expansive forests, and distinctive biosphere. Strong climatic contrasts through the seasons have required highly resilient architectural types, incorporating the local materials of wood and stone. The Treehotel in Swedish Lapland is known for its broad variety of cabins, with each cabin having a distinct identity that reacts differently to the forest.

The Plus for Vestre / BIG

Paula Pintos — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 08:50:00 +0000

In just 18 months, Vestre has completed the world's most environmentally friendly furniture factory, The Plus. The investment of almost NOK 300 million makes The Plus the single largest investment in the Norwegian furniture industry in decades. The 7000 m2 factory will be a global showcase for sustainable and highly efficient production and an experience destination for people around the world.