On the mission to end single-use plastic in the hospitality sector, @TURN Systems & BIG Products teamed up to design a system of reusable cups, return bins and on-site washing facilities. The latest pilot program with @Starbucks aims to reduce the company's current use of around 6 billion disposable cups annually worldwide. We couldn't be more excited to be part of this journey! The TURN cups are produced with recycled polypropylene, aluminium or stainless steel and can be reused up to 120 times, by returning them to the Smart Bins for quick, efficient, and safe dispensing. The Smart Washer, a mobile truck, washes the cups 5x faster than a traditional dishwasher, as well as tracks the number of cups being returned, calculating the environmental benefit. Other partnerships include @LiveNation, @OakViewGroup, @Pepsi, and @Delta. By introducing the TURN system, Starbucks is hoping to incentivize customers to opt for a more climate friendly option when ordering their coffee: “For customers, seeing is believing—if reusable cups are offered and used more, customers will start thinking about it for every visit as the norm,” says Amy Wang, Director for Global Reusables Strategy at Starbucks. 📸 Starbucks & @charles.reagan @kjjkeating @aplusk @soundventures @bjarkeingels @jakob_lange #Starbucks #TURNSystems #BIGProducts #BjarkeIngelsGroup

CapitaSpring has received the President*s Design Award (P*DA), Singapore’s highest honour for designers and designs across all disciplines, in the category of 2023 Design of the Year. Thank you to the jury and congratulations to the design team! 🎉 Designed jointly by BIG and CRA - Carlo Ratti Associati in collaboration with RSP, the 51-storey mixed-use development is situated in the heart of Singapore’s financial district and reinforces Singapore’s reputation as a garden city with its vertical exploration of tropical urbanism. “As someone with Singaporean heritage, I have been honored and humbled by the opportunity to contribute to the ongoing evolution of architecture in Singapore as a distinct blending between the contemporary and the tropical. In our design, this manifests as a seamless transition between the garden and the city, articulated in the facades and a series of lush spiraling gardens connecting between various programs and amenities.” - Brian Yang, Partner, BIG #CapitaSpring #Singapore #BIGArchitecture #BIGLandscape @crassociati @rspdesigners 📹 @finbarrfallon

The timber construction of Skypark Business Center at Luxembourg Airport City is steadily progressing 🏗️ The seven-storey business center is comprised of all wood in its upper structures, bridges and slabs and consists of two mirrored zig-zagging bars, stacked on top of each other, creating a flexible layout, three levels of roof gardens and views of the runway. A thriving 78.000 m2 economic hub of office space, hospitality, retail, and conference facilities, the design appears as a sequence of distinct volumes, from the base up – the mineral parking plinth, the fully glazed porous ground floor, and the lower and upper rotated volume that curves across the different levels. The business center’s facade doubles as protection from wind and noise from passing airplanes, whilst also reducing the building’s energy usage by providing sun protection in the summer and minimizing heat losses during the winter. Visitors will be welcomed to the center by intimate courtyards along the main road and enter through the ground floor’s inner passage, the Grande Galerie, which acts as the spine of the building, connecting all functions in the business center. On the western end, the upper volume is extended and cantilevered out, providing shelter and shade, whilst simultaneously creating a symbolic entrance for everyone arriving to the Airport City from Luxembourg city center. 📸 @corentinhaubruge #Architecture #Luxembourg #BjarkeIngelsGroup #ConstructionSite #TimberConstruction #LuxAirport #SkyparkBusinessCenter #AuCarre, #DrLüchingerMeyerBauingenieureAG, #JeanSchmitEngineering, #Lamoureux, @leseclaireurs_lighting_design, @metaform_architects, @jimclemesassociates, @beissel.ruppert, @lux_airport

Celebrated as this year's World Capital of Architecture by @UNESCO, Copenhagen is home to some of our earliest projects. From the smallest youth house to the 62.000 m2 8 House, it's an honor whenever we get to contribute to the fabric of our city. If you’re in town for the UIA World Congress of Architecture next week, swing by some of these gems! "Copenhagen is a city defined by thoughtfully planned building environments based on a strong understanding of the lived life of its citizens. The city may not be grand in its scale or scope, but the sum of all the little details create an ecosystem that has the potential for grand influence and impact, making Copenhagen a great place to exchange ideas for urbanism and architecture." - Bjarke Ingels, Founder & Creative Director at BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group 📸 Iwan Baan, Laurian Ghinitoiu & Nils Koenning 1. 8 House, 2010 2. VM Houses and The Mountain, 2005 and 2008 3. Maritime Youth House, 2004 4. Gammel Hellerup School, 2013 5. Copenhagen Harbor Bath, 2012 6. Sjakket Youth Club, 2007 7. Superkilen, 2012 8. Copenhill, 2019 9. Urban Rigger, 2018 #Copenhagen #UIA2023CPH #LeaveNoOneBehind @uia2023cph #Architecture #BjarkeIngelsGroup

Excited to share a sneak peek of our new headquarters in Copenhagen, completing this fall💥 We started our design journey in 2017, anchoring the building in the neighborhood’s industrial history and maritime infrastructure…fast forward six years, our 4,880 m2 office is set to achieve DGNB Gold, through use of Uni-Green – a new type of concrete developed jointly by BIG and Unicon that has a CO2 reduction of approx. 25%, resulting in a CO2 footprint of 11.3kg CO2 eq/m2/year. Combining the efforts of BIG LEAPP – BIG’s Landscape, Engineering, Architecture, Planning and Product teams – everything from door handles to the 20-meter-long concrete beams, from glass façades to the surrounding landscape, has been given form by the BIG LEAPP team. The HQ further integrates solar and geothermal energy systems that contribute to a 60% reliance on renewable energy. Upon entering the main entrance, BIGsters and guests will find themselves in a Piranesian space, where the inner life of the building reveals itself through diagonal views all the way up to the top floor. Apart from the beams resting on each other, a single stone column of six different types of rock – ranging from dense granite at the bottom to solid marble at the top – carries the structure at the heart of the space. An open stair ricochets from level to level all the way from the ground- to the top floor. Each floor has direct access to a balcony connected to the balcony above and below, forming a continuous 140-meter-long ribbon of outdoor spaces, spiraling from the roof to the quayside like a mountain path. 📷 @moerkproduction & @corentinhaubruge @lm_byg_as #Unicon #EnergyMachines #ElTeamVest #EilerThomsen #HBTrapper #BjarkeIngelsGroup #Architecture #Headquarters #Copenhagen #Nordhavn #BIGLEAPP

Västerås Travel Center receives planning permission by the City’s Executive Building Committee! Located at the heart of one of Sweden’s largest cities, Västerås, the namesake Travel Center will bring together several modes of transport in an integrated, 17.000 m2 mobility hub, and become an important node redefining the city’s infrastructure and landscape. Connecting to the existing urban fabric, Västerås Travel Center is designed to unite all transportation functions such as railway, buses and bicycles, as well as bridge the city center and the nearby Lake Mälaren — areas currently divided by train tracks. The Travel Center’s defining feature is an undulating roofscape with raised corners that mark the most important entries. A zigzag line of load-bearing elements cuts across the roof, giving the timber-clad ceiling a draped look as well as eliminating the need for interior pillars that obstruct people’s movement through space. In addition to improving the conditions for public transportation in the city, the Center will have a bicycle garage, travel services, restaurants, offices, event areas and exhibition spaces. A series of terraces around the Center will further connect the design to the neighbouring parks, Vasaparken and Hamnparken, extending the city's public realm and providing citizens with views and meeting places. “Västerås' new Travel Center brings the entire city's infrastructural hub together on one landscape, under one roof. The travel center is designed as a piece of social infrastructure, shaped for the flow of people and public life. We wanted to celebrate movement and create a welcoming, warm and transparent mobility hub that becomes an important social and economic node redefining the city’s infrastructure and landscape” - Bjarke Ingels, Creative Director and Founder, BIG #Architecture #Infrastructure #UrbanPlanning #BjarkeIngelsGroup #Västerås 📷 PLAYTIME

Our collaboration with Vollebak applies technological and material innovation that the maverick clothing brand is known for to create Vollebak Island, a small self-sustained adventure village off the coast of Nova Scotia in the spectacular Jeddore Harbour. Fully powered by carbon neutral energy, each room in the village is made from its own unique material - stacked seaweed, compacted earth, hemp, glass brick or locally sourced stone - tailored for the specific use and experience of that particular room. "Vollebak creates clothes that are as sustainable and resilient as they are beautiful. In other words, the fashion equivalent of BIG's architectural philosophy of Hedonistic Sustainability. For Vollebak Island, we have imagined the rooms as a manmade mount of individual volumes rising out of the ground and a separate outpost at the edge of the breaking waves." -@bjarkeingels Vollebak Island and BIG's design vision will be auctioned as part of Sotheby’s Concierge Auctions’ Exceptional Global Properties sale at #SothebysNewYork on 14 June. @vollebak @sothebys @conciergeauctions @canada_sir #BIGArchitecture #Vollebak #Sothebys #Auction #Island #Canada

Attention all creatives in NYC or those contemplating a move to the BIG Apple! Move-in ready, plug’n’play office space with meeting rooms, amenities, and epic views of the Brooklyn Bridge in the heart of Dumbo - steps from subways, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Dumbo House and dozens of restaurants. DM with any questions! #BIG #Dumbo #NYC

Spring has sprung in Gug, north of Denmark! Villa Gug - the private home and personal car exhibit of a Danish car-collector has emerged from a blanket of snow to reveal a coat of lush greenery. In Villa Gug, the clients’ passion for cars plays a significant role in the family life. Instead of hiding the vehicles away in a basement, BIG designed a house that gradually transitions from an introverted garage and showroom at the driveway to the kitchen, living room and terrace on the top of the building. Villa Gug is a manifestation of a house shaped by the desires of its inhabitants. #BIGArchitecture #BIGEngineering #carchitecture #villa #residence 📷 Pernille Loof and Thomas Loof

Nestled in the Swedish Lapland, guests of @Treehotel's Biosphere cabin are enveloped by 350 bird- and bat houses allowing to experience our aviary friends up close throughout the year. Designed in collaboration with local ornithologist, Ulf Öhman, our design for the 34 m2 cabin aims to help decrease the downward spiral of the bird population in the region: "Inventories in Norrbotten County show that a number of different bird populations are decreasing. Forestry has led to a reduced number of natural holes in trees where breeding birds nest. The installation of bird nests is therefore an important measure to take. Furthermore, climate change leads to the insect boom happening earlier in the year, and by the time the birds’ eggs hatch, the boom has already passed. Feeding is an important support mechanism for the birds that stay in Northern Sweden and require food during winter." 📷 @fotographicsweden #EarthDay #Architecture #GreenArchitecture #BjarkeIngelsGroup #ClimateAction #BIGBarcelona

We are excited to share our concept for the planned new National Museum of the United States Navy, unveiled at an event alongside our collaborators Squint/Opera and Olin Studio this afternoon! The competition is an important conceptual and artistic process toward creating a state-of-the-art museum and community institution – a home for both Naval veterans and the public, a living memorial to the U.S. Navy’s heritage, a lighthouse for education and public events.   Our vision for the planned new museum reflects the historical context of the Navy Yard, while referencing the scale, materials, and details of Navy vessels. An array of large-scale vitrines opens up towards a public street, welcoming visitors and locals with an impressive glimpse into the museum's collection of artifacts inside and outside, conveying the mission, lineage and breadth of operations that constitutes the US Navy. 📸 @negativ_va   @SquintOpera @OlinInsta @MGACGlobal #NMUSN #NavyHistory #USNavy #ArtisticIdeasCompetition #WashingtonDC #Museum #Competition #NHHC

In celebration of our cultural and civic sites, we revisit one of our first: the Danish Maritime Museum. Located in a unique historic and spatial context in Helsingør, Denmark, the museum is situated between the UNESCO World Heritage Kronborg Castle and the ambitious cultural center Culture Yard. For this competition, we proposed placing the museum underground, just outside the wall of the dock to preserve the dock as an open, outdoor space while maintaining the powerful structure as the center of the Maritime Museum. By doing this, the museum appears as part of the cultural environment associated with Kronborg Castle and neighboring Culture Yard, while simultaneously manifesting itself as an independent institution. “When one designs next to one of Denmark’s most important architectural icons, the UNESCO World Heritage Kronborg Castle, it requires an equal dose of respect and sensitivity. At the same time, it is every Museum Director’s dream to have their institution be recognized as its own architectural icon. Our challenge was to do both at the same time,” David Zahle, Partner, BIG 📹 WAAITT #UNESCO #Competition #Maritime #Museum